Attribution: Federal Reserve by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com
Trump and Powell on Collision Course Without Easy Escape
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Attribution: Federal Reserve by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com
Trump and Powell on Collision Course Without Easy Escape
Late Show: Whoever came up with our Easter traditions must have been really stoned, Italy’s new prime minister paid a visit to the White House, scientists may have discovered living organisms on a distant planet, and idiots online are insisting that Gayle King and Katy Perry didn’t really go to space.
Kentucky Derby contenders and early odds
Journalism | early odds: 3-1
Sandman | early odds: 8-1
Sovereignty | early odds: 8-1
Rodriguez | early odds: 10-1
Tappan Street | early odds: 10-1
Burnham Square | early odds: 15-1
Luxor Cafe | early odds: 15-1
Citizen Bull | early odds: 20-1
East Avenue | early odds: 20-1
Grande | early odds: 20-1
River Thames | early odds: 20-1
Tiztastic | early odds: 20-1
American Promise | early odds: 30-1
Chunk of Gold | early odds: 30-1
Coal Battle | early odds: 30-1
Final Gambit | early odds: 30-1
Publisher | early odds: 30-1
Admire Daytona | early odds: 50-1
Flood Zone | early odds: 50-1
Flying Mohawk | early odds: 50-1
a Good Friday message from Marlette
He’s just practicing for when he cancels elections.
I suppose I ought to go with “Journalism” but in keeping with picking horses for names I like — this year “Tiztastic” is my winner. A great new word, not just a fun name.
How dictators roll.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R):
“We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real.”
I’ll have a complete list after the draw. In the meantime, I’ll collect the entries of trailmixers.
It says it’s about Paul Revere’s Ride, but Sen. King gets off topic to talk about gop.
“Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell.” [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]
Big Ten Michigan schools make moves to create a ‘Mutual Defense Compact’ against Trump policies
It is the Trump administration’s strategy to pick off individual schools one-by-one, pulling research funding and threatening student visas until institutions are beaten into submission, supporters of a resolution to establish a “Mutual Defense Compact” for Big Ten universities said during a University of Michigan Faculty Senate meeting Thursday.
The hope is that creating an alliance between the 14 universities in the Big Ten Conference to defend “academic freedom, institutional integrity, and the research enterprise,” as the resolution reads, will make schools stronger together.
Just this week, the faculty senate at fellow Big Ten school Michigan State University adopted such a resolution, as have Indiana University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
*Well, wadda ya know, Adolf’s a uniter, after all.
Is the 25th the only way to curtail his control of the military?
he picked cabinet of sycophantic weaklings for acreason
If they see his power eroding, they are going to cannibalize each other. Adolf’s losses are stacking up, and I think the only reason Murkowsi and other Repugz may be afraid, it’s of being primaried…which voters can do to them, too.
They will need to impeach JD and Mike Johnson, then stop at Chuck Grassley, because Lil Marco has been doing some shady, war crimes work for Adolf.
Is the International Criminal Court taking notes?
Pogo – Can’t the military just follow its oath to the US Constitution, not attack citizens on US soil, and ignore Adolf’s illegal orders?
Third in line? No, thanks.
The rhubarb root planted last fall is going to seed. Has anyone ever seen this happen before?
it’s called “bolting”, cut that stem off at the base immediately
What happens if you let it grow?
all the plant’s energy goes into producing seed and you want the stalks of the foliage for food
you only let it bolt if you want the seed, bolting at all ruins most plants for food production but i heard rhubarb is salvageable if you go cut those stalks off at the base ASAP
as we all know, the stalks of rhubarb are edible, the leaves are poisonous
It’s funny the back of the lettuce seat packet essentially says “ are you sure you know what you are doing?”
I think that is the question to be asked of those planting marvolous growers such as horseradish, ginger, bamboo, asparagus, dandelions, and so many more.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2671795965/
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks is widely seen as a measured figure who frequently calls out anything radical or removed from the center — but that’s decidedly not the tone he struck in his latest article, calling for a “civic uprising” to defend American values against the assault of the Trump administration.
The Trump agenda, he continued, stands in opposition to all of that — pursuing only “power for its own sake” as it seeks to “make the earth a playground for ruthless men,” tearing down any institution or cultural values that get in the way of that. This is the mindset with which Trump has forced universities, law firms, and media companies to bend to his will.
So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this … is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans,” wrote Brooks. “What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican.”
Specifically, what’s needed is a type of collective nonviolent civil disobedience, wrote Brooks, of the type that drove British colonists out of India or forced passage of the Civil Rights Act.
These movements used many different tools at their disposal — lawsuits, mass rallies, strikes, work slowdowns, boycotts and other forms of noncooperation and resistance,” he wrote. “These movements began small and built up. They developed clear messages that appealed to a variety of groups. They shifted the narrative so the authoritarians were no longer on permanent offense. Sometimes they used nonviolent means to provoke the regime into taking violent action, which shocks the nation, undercuts the regime’s authority and further strengthens the movement.”
“But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
today’s meme…
Douche Panzers
I don’t know what this means. All I want to see is a number that tells me how many of my fellow Americans are joining my sentiments of disapproving Dodo’s every thought, word and deed. I want to see those numbers in the 80s. That way I am ashamed of only 20% of my fellow Americans.
“A new Economist/YouGov poll finds President Trump’s approval rate at an upside down 42% to 52%. Last week’s poll had his approval at 43% to 51%.”
why are you trying to disprove what you already know to be true, half this country sucks
They are my loved ones.
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
your “loved ones” you mean the people that voted to have people kidnapped and sent to for-profit prisons to be tortured
all the trumpers in your life that you call loved ones are the first ones that are gonna call the Gestapo on you
get your mind right ppl
Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. According to Jesus and my Swami, he said that too. I’m praying for their enlightenment.
I have such people in my life, Ivy I’m done with them
They actually came through for me when my daughter died and Mr. Ivy was in ICU.
while you’re praying for them, they’re planning on how to take your shit
OK, well I still think they’re scum in my humble opinion
possibly brain damaged I don’t know
i’m out in the streets every day Ivy it’s a society of rude cavalier assholes
The trumpers are always incredibly rude and selfish every fucking day
finding ways to rationalize their behavior is how fascism become becomes normalized
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-400-year-veto-supreme-court-5a1be188f78ab5e4223b2c7c7ad3ca7d
The Wisconsin governor’s creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Both Republicans and Democrats have used the partial veto to reshape spending bills passed by the Legislature.
Wisconsin is the only state where governors can partially veto spending bills by striking words, numbers and punctuation to create new meaning or spending amounts. In most states, governors can only eliminate or reduce spending amounts.
Evers in 2023 issued a partial veto that increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year. Evers took language that originally applied the increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.
Joys of parenting. Last night one of my unwanted visitors went into a live trap and the door closed. The plan was to take it out back in the trees to let it loose, lots of cover and food for mice back there. As I was on my way I took a little closer look, the mouse is mother and there was a pile of little babies under her. That killed plan A. She and her little ones are now in a three gallon pretzel tub with water and food.
She ate and drank and the pulled her little ones under again and they are now squirming around full of milk.
Now what do I do? No to killing. I don’t think she could create a nest back in the trees before night and the cold. No one wants wild mice so giving her away is out. For now plan B is let her live in the big clear plastic tub for a while, until it is warm weather for several days.
they sent a kid originally from Venezuela with a really sweet obvious autism awareness tattoo that the Nazis lied and said was a gang tattoo,to a for-profit prison in El Salvador, IV, your loved ones did that
Mine too, really cool stock I come from huh
I am actually fortunate to not have very many Trump Nazis in my family, not to brag
by the way, forgiveness comes after repentance not mid-sin
meme #2…
“In hundreds of border state households, brothers–and sisters–really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war.”
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807861868/the-divided-family-in-civil-war-america/#:~:text=In%20hundreds%20of%20border%20state,to%20respond%20to%20the%20war.
yeah, so the rest of the world saw the immorality of the African slave trade which is why they all are outlawed it before the American Civil War
The truth was plain to see back then too, it wasn’t some moral ambiguity people were wrestling with
your inner turmoil could be a result of a desire to see yourself as a good person more than it might be about wanting to see other people as good
Yay psychology
https://www.newsweek.com/travel-warning-journalists-entering-us-2061475
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has advised journalists traveling to the United States to take special precautions, citing growing concerns over potential new travel restrictions and increased scrutiny at U.S. borders under President Donald Trump’s administration.
Among the CPJ’s central concerns is the broad authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to inspect travelers’ electronic devices without a warrant or probable cause.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hhs-eliminates-committee-newborn-health-screening-rcna201370
HHS eliminates advisory committee on newborn screening ahead of vote on rare disorders
The committee’s central role was to recommend which conditions should be included on a universal screening panel for infants.
Though Kennedy has been focused on identifying the origins of more pervasive childhood diseases like autism, asthma and obesity, rare diseases are collectively a large public health concern. Around 15 million children in the United States have rare diseases, most of which are genetic.
Newborn screenings identify around 14,000 babies every year who have potentially life-threatening or life-altering conditions, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). Getting a diagnosis around the time of a child’s birth gives parents a valuable window to seek treatment, which is usually most effective before symptoms set in.
It’s up to states to decide which conditions to test for, but most follow the federal government’s Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, which suggests looking for 38 conditions, including cystic fibrosis and Pompe disease, a disorder that causes muscle weakness. The screening panel is largely shaped by recommendations from the advisory committee’s volunteer scientists and medical experts.
According to an internal HHS email reviewed by NBC News, the committee was terminated, without explanation, on April 3. It had been scheduled to meet next month to discuss adding two conditions to the RUSP: metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Herrity said there had been an expectation that one or both conditions would be added.
Both disorders have treatments that may extend a child’s life or improve its quality, one of the main factors that determines whether screening would be useful. The Food and Drug Administration approved a gene therapy (which modifies the genes causing a person’s illness) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2023 and for metachromatic leukodystrophy in 2024.
But with the advisory committee gone, there is little chance the conditions will be added to the universal panel. Only two states, Illinois and New York, screen newborns for MLD. And two more states, Minnesota and Ohio, screen for DMD.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-covid-lab-leak-information-website_n_6802710fe4b058dd5962e8a7
White House Replaces COVID-19 Information Site With ‘Lab Leak’ Theories
federal website sharing public health information about COVID-19 vaccines, treatment and testing has been replaced with one dedicated to theories about “the true origins of Covid-19” and scrutiny of past health officials’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID.gov’s dramatic reboot Friday has the site now featuring a photo of President Donald Trump with the words “LAB LEAK.”
Whatever your story is, Donald Trump doesn’t care.