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All just so he can prosecute Liz Cheney
impeach
craig, he’s also after schiff and thompson.
wonder if all those who were critical then of Biden’s pre-emptive move will now understand the need.
and in other news
The White House announced that it intends to roll back all climate control regulations and other environmental regulations that “make it difficult to conduct business.” It’ll be great, they say. This song tells a different story
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
on a st. paddy’s day, one song is a must. here tho’ the words have been changed to meet the times. this version parody project published 7 years ago but it’s still timely.
Oh sure, vicious and humiliating public stomp-down on āoh heās so oldā Joe Biden but boo-hoo whatta we gonna do about Book-Tour-Chuck?
crickets
Democrats always after stomping down winners but Hey we gotta Keep the Losers out front. Maybe the fascists will let us hand them a towel in the gym.
If jokes and clever memes could win elections, democrats would be riding high.
Having trouble making folks believe that Elon is not single-handedly saving those, two astronauts; that they werenāt up there alone the entire time; that Elon is neither a car/rocket designer, nor a scientist, nor a tech wizard; that Elon has a history of overpromising and underperforming; that there is not a huge problem with government waste in Medicaid; that there will be any social safety nets if DOGE and the RussoRepublicans have their way.
Wishinā and hopinā
Just saw the eggs discussion in yesterday’s thread. Mrs. P & I went to the opening day of the Oakland, MD Farmer’s Market Saturday and bought local eggs for $5 a dozen from the lady we refer to as “the egg lady.” Apparently bird flu hasn’t his the West Virginia part of Maryland yet. Thanks for that.
I do not envy the lawyer who gets to go back into the DC Circuit to argue the motion for stay filed by the government or back to Judge Boasberg’s court to explain why the two flights that were 80 minute and 60 minutes into their flights did not turn around and why the one that left 50 minutes after he issued his ruling and 10 minutes after it made the USDC docket ignored his order.
WaPo – https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/16/deportation-flights-trump-el-salvador/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/official-exits-commerce-department-musk-warning-00232278
āāA top Commerce Department official sent a blistering email to his former colleagues on his way out the door Sunday warning that the Trump administration is poised to unduly enrich Elon Muskās satellite internet company with money for rural broadband.
āStranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the worldās richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,ā Feinman said.
*It will be worse, too, because satellite internet makes it susceptible to censorship and surveillance by the state; data is routed through a limited number of gateways. OG internet relies on a decentralized network with thousands of data exchange points.
Itās about control, just like gutting USPS, which is not federally funded, will hurt rural areas most. Privatization will make the rich, richer; it will also control the flow of information and commerce. Right now, I get mail delivery in the country six days a week. Itās doubtful that would happen if USOS is cut or privatized.
today’s meme…
Do yāall realize that the big, broadcasting networks are censoring news? I can find protests on the socials. I can talk to someone in another country. Americans are not seeing it unless they go looking for it.
Nor are we seeing the huge protests in Bosnia or Serbia or Hungary. There definitely a big backlash against Russian involvement. Hereās hoping Orban has to flee Hungary.
Pogeaux – ten years ago I was buying farmer sold eggs for four to five dollars a dozen. They were large or xtra large eggs, shape and color varied a lot. But most were only a day or two old, stored in a refrigerator. I considered how much searching the chicken yard the farmer had to do worth the price.
Sturge
Are you defending Chuckie? He has always been a camera grabbing hog and not a very effective leader. I can still remember him elbowing Nancy aside to get in front of the camera. He should have been replaced years ago.
Jack
meme #2…
https://www.newsweek.com/chuck-schumer-cancels-book-tour-events-amid-funding-vote-backlash-2045915
āChuck Schumer has canceled book tour events this week because of security concerns amid a backlash over his support for Republicans in preventing a government shutdown last week.ā
Pffft, āsecurity concerns.ā He just didnāt wanna get booed or have to answer for what he did.
Heās going to be on The View tomorrow.
BTW… I’m jealous of some of you who pay so little for a dozen eggs. Here in the North
East they have gone through the roof. I paid $9.59 for a dozen a few days ago.
No, not at all defending Chuck. I always let him be and thought benefit of the doubt maybe heās got some kind of a plan but his plan this time was to torpedo the House, enable gop, and go sell a book. Chuckās ass, time to hit the road, Toad, and take your Gillibrand with you.
Some ST Paddy’s Day music.
Remember drunken Celts, are a tradition older than Christianity. Once you get the reputation, it never goes away. You youngsters might want to remember that. Me? I’ll just put a bit of Jamison and cream in my last cup of coffee and celebrate the day.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/past-alarm-bells-trump-court-order-defy-rule-of-law-immigration-deportation-venezuela-el-salvador-flights-biden-pardons-autopen?r=24tjs8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Devilās always in the details.
The horns on their heads fit perfectly with the holes in ours.
for all you Trekkies!
You want to stop this defiance of the law, start putting people in jail. Start with the pilots of the plane and work your way on up. They are all part of the problem.
A few people start going to jail or at least see the cost of a legal defense and they will be a bit more circumspect in the future.
Jack
Itās time for the military to take next stepsā¦or Iran. Iām not picky.
āYou want to stop this defiance of the law, start putting people in jailā
they are the ālawā
aināt no heroes coming, folks- no one even knows what to do
Dems were warned with HRCās loss, kept doing the same shit, and here we are
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-does-not-care-what-the-judges-think_n_67d84601e4b0dade360cdf26
āWeāre not stopping. I donāt care what the judges think. I donāt care what the left thinks. Weāre coming,ā Homan told āFox & Friendsā host Lawrence B. Jones on Monday.
Homan said it out loud. He doesnāt care what the court says. Time for the military to step in, if the RussoRepublicans wonāt impeach and remove tRUMPutin, Vance, and the entire mob cabinet taking over the US.
https://ew.com/canadian-actress-jasmine-mooney-detained-by-ice-11698382
Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney detained by ICE for 12 days: ‘The most inhumane thing I’ve ever seen’
āā¦detained by immigration officials on March 3 while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. There, she tried to reapply for a work visa, which she previously obtained successfully, in order to work in the U.S., according to local news network CTV News.ā
āMooney is the co-founder of Holy! Water, a wellness water brand in Los Angeles, where she resided up until her detention.ā
āThe entrepreneur was released after 12 days and returned to Vancouver on March 15, where she told reporters, including CTV News, that she was still “processing everything” and that she remained in the dark as to why she was detained and whether it related to President Donald Trump’s recent border policies.ā
āNo one told me anything. Not once,” Mooney said, adding that she hasn’t “slept and eaten proper food in a while.”
āWhen reached by Entertainment Weekly on Monday, an ICE spokesperson confirmed that Mooney’s detainment pertained to Trump’s “Securing Our Borders” executive order signed into effect in January. “Jasmine Mooney was detained March 3 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not having legal documentation to be in the United States,” the spokesperson said. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the U.S., regardless of nationality.ā
āBefore Mooney was released, she connected with CTV News by phone from the San Luis Regional Detention in Arizona, where she was detained, and called the detention center “the most inhumane thing I’ve ever seen.”
She said, “I have no idea when I’m going to leave. Without any warning about what was about to transpire, I was literally just taken.”
Speaking to the station after her release, Mooney said, āI still donāt even know how Iām home. My friends and my family and the media are the reason, I think, that Iām home.ā
*And sheās an English-speaking, white lady.
*Itās time for an international law tribunal to get involved. Itās time for Canada to cut off power. Itās time for the rest of the world to go in without us, and treat us like the pariah weāve become under tRUMPutin.
*By the way, there have been pretty big protests, but youād never know it thanks to complicit media.
from WSJ editorial board says he saved dems from themselves
Chuck Schumerās Finest Hour – WSJ
look at what’s happening now (disappearing people, defying court orders, continuing to defund vital programs, closing down necessary local buildings, sending essential people home, etc) and imagine how much worse it would be under a complete shutdown. tho I’m NOT at all a fan, chuckie made the right decision IMO.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/musk-penis-implant/
āIn February 2025, a rumor spread online that Elon Musk, the technology mogul and public face of the new Department of Government Efficiency under U.S. President Donald Trump, has a penile implant.
Some users even claimed the penile implant surgery had been “botched.” For example, one person who made the claim on Musk’s social media platform, X, said this was the reason his children had been conceived via in vitro fertilization (archived).ā
That X user wrote: “Most of Elon Musk’s kids were conceived through IVF. He used IVF for his first five sons. His whole identity as a man is wrapped up in reproducing, which he can’t seem to do on his own (botched penile implant).”
The rumor spread widely on X (archived). For example, on Feb. 16, 2025, U.S. singer and rapper Azealia Banks shared an X post(archived) that said Musk had “a botched penis implant.”
Speaking of the claim, Banks wrote (archived): “Grimes told me this too,” in reference to Musk’s former romantic partner and mother of three of his children, Claire Boucher, a musician who goes by Grimes professionally.
Rumors that Musk once modified his body have abounded for years. For example, people have long speculated that he has had a hair transplant, something the billionaire has never confirmed. Further, after posting a photograph(archived) of himself in a Santa Claus costume with the caption “Ozempic Santa,” he admittedhe had taken the weight-loss drug Mounjaro.
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https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-drug-explanation
āā¦published a study in the journal Addiction that tracked 120 frequent recreational ketamine users for a year.
As Morgan told The Atlantic, everyone in that cohort ā from those who used it three times a month on average to those who did it 20 times per month ā had “profound” short- and long-term memory issues and were “distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence.”
Delusions of grandeur are not, obviously, the sole provenance of ketamine users, and there’s little doubt Musk had an outsized opinion of himself long before he discovered “Special K.” But his behavior in recent years has grown more and more erratic, especially in the since his purchase of Twitter, in ways that seem to track with those descriptions of frequent ketamine use side effects.
In a 2023 exposƩ for The New Yorker, journalist Ronan Farrow revealed that people close to the billionaire had grown concerned about his alleged ket habit, which those unnamed sources claimed had grown in then-recent years. Paired with his increasing self-imposed isolation and the stress from the many businesses he owns, those associates were worried that Musk may have been self-medicating.
*Take all of the ~medication~ you need, guy. All of it.
being made to look impotent isnāt a political win, not surprised capitulation wins praise from the homers over at WSJ
lol āspeculatedā he had a hair transplant- dude had a hair transplant
face-work too, very vain guy
botched penis would explain so much tho š
idk the procedure but Senate minority leader should be Schiff, unless yāall have a better candidate
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-treasury-take-money-bank-account-1235295232/
CAN TRUMP ARBITRARILY TAKE MONEY FROM ANYONEāS BANK ACCOUNT?
The federal governmentās debiting $80.5 million from New York Cityās bank account suggests yes
On February 11, 2025, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency housed in the Department of Homeland Security, removed $80.5 million from New York Cityās main bank account, which is an account with Citibank. Well, thatās not exactly accurate. They ādebited,ā the financial way of referring to āsubtracting,ā New York Cityās ācentral treasury accountā for $80.5 million. According to public statements by Brad Lander, New York Cityās comptroller, this could only be covered by a line of credit facility to the tune of $79.5 million. In short they, in essence, sent New York Cityās main bank account to negative $79.5 million to rescind routine funding appropriated by Congress to house refugees. Citibank kindly agreed to forgive the overdraft fee.
If you have ever gotten a direct deposit of pay, or really anything else, you have used a system called the Automatic Clearing House system or āACH.ā Social Security payments are ACH payments, as are payments to medical providers. For older readers, if you look at your checkbook you will see an āACH numberā on your checks. Really, it would be easier to list what arenātACH payments than what are.
When you make a credit card payment, technically speaking what you are doing is authorizing the credit card company to send an ACH ādebitā to your bank account. This debit subtracts the money and when the payment clears, the credit card company ācreditsā your credit card account and lowers your credit card balance (which is a type of debt). In other words, what is subtracted from your credit card debt is what they subtracted from your bank account. Your assets and liabilities go down by the same amount (except for interest payments and fees of course).
The rules for ACH are mainly determined by āNational Automated Clearing House Associationā (NACHA, now āNachaā). The actual payments infrastructure is run by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks along with āThe Clearing House,ā a clearinghouse originally set up by large New York banks all the way back in 1853.
The Automated Clearing House payment system is one of the foundational building blocks of all payments made in our society. Nearly every payment you make is either an ACH payment or it relies indirectly on accurate and timely ACH payments. Furthermore, any institution you rely on directly or indirectly relies on accurate and timely ACH payments to function properly. If the reliability of Automatic Clearing House payments were to be permanently or indefinitely degraded in a crucial manner, it would fundamentally threaten your access to basic social services, and even privately produced and distributed goods and services. To explain why, we have to understand a fundamental, yet neglected, area of law called āpayment finality.ā
Uncertainty about payment finality has the potential to degrade insidiously the performance of the financial system. If there is generally a non-zero chance that even settled payments might be reversed, then the most liquid of assets (cash balances) could lose reliability and therefore value: $1 of ācash in the bankā may no longer be regarded as worth $1.ā
Along similar lines, a former Federal Reserve Lawyer tells me: āOur monetary system depends on a strong concept of payment finality. Exceptions must be reserved for only truly extraordinary cases.ā
āFrom what I understand of the facts of this case,ā the lawyer continues, referring to the reversal of routine FEMA payments that had fulfilled congressional appropriations, āthis is not an extraordinary situation. Reversing of final payments, in a stable financial system, should never be in the ordinary course of business.ā The Trump administration debiting New York Cityās account without notice for reasons of Presidential priorities rather than an actual erroneous or duplicate payments IS, of course, extraordinary
One of the reasons this story has been so difficult to report and has taken as long as it has is that it has been extremely difficult to find sources willing to be quoted, or really even vaguely characterized. My February 3 articles in Rolling Stone and in my newsletter invoked a great deal of alarm but because of the policy implications rather than peopleās personal safety. Former and current Bureau of the Fiscal Service employees were willing to give many anonymous quotes that I published that week. The circle of people who truly understand these payment issues is smaller, more prominent, more risk-averse and have far greater informed alarm.
Payments law is a kind of āsource codeā for all other parts of law.
The possibilities Iāve laid out in this article are somehow even more dangerous than using the payments system to impound congressionally appropriated spending. As I was finalizing this article Wednesday afternoon, the news broke that Citibank ā in a separate case ā had made a court filing providing evidence that the FBI had demanded that it freeze bank accounts associated with an Environmental Protection Administration grant program, including a New York state government bank account.
We are entering waters beyond the scale of constitutional crises and nearly every expert in this shallow pool feels ill-equipped to speak about it publicly for a variety of reasons. Iām having trouble imagining circumstances more dangerous.
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*MuskRat has accessed the ACH system, and he could freeze or wipe out everyoneās accounts if so inclined. There are fewer bank examiners now, so FDIC might also just be a quaint, old idea, like the US Constitution.
Senator Chris Murphy
I want to go back to Brat Summer when we had hope
You know what? Sanders for minority leader, fuck the haters, letās go
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5198721-watch-live-trump-visits-kennedy-center/
āTrump visits Kennedy Center for tour, board meetingā
Apparently, he went off on a rant about tariffs. Not sure how that has anything to do with the Kennedy Center. Maybe the syphilitic dementia is finally going to take him out of commission.
I will go with anon about Bernie Sanders for minority leader. The only hesitancy is he seems to have excitement issues.
Trump aide: “I don’t care what the judges think. We are not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming,” Trump border czar, Tom Homan, said on Fox News. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-453ec8b0-0368-11f0-89a0-9d8bde6a3753.html?chunk=2&utm_term=twsocialshare#story2
Bernie. Itās his turn.
Bernie is an Independent. You canāt get more minority in the Senate than that. Murphy stepped up early, but Bernie can get the crowds to show upā¦and they are not paid actors.
If anyone needs me, Iāll be under the kitchen sink trying to figure out which line is leaking.
Follow the water!
Bernie was an ok Democrat when he wanted to run for President.
But Murphy is ok too.
JUST IN: DOJ is asking the DC circuit to remove Judge Boasberg from the case over Trumpās invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
Hard to see the circuit doing this, but the ask itself is extraordinary.
Lord willinā and the creek donāt rise. āļø
āŖ@rachelbitecofer.bsky.socialā¬
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This is what living in Germany in 1933 would have been like if they had that tech back then.
Really illustrates that cruelty becomes highly attractive to a great many people who are inclined to sadism.
Donāt underestimate how far this can go.
They need to read through to the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third_Reich
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-social-security-leak-changes-leland-dudek-2044088
The audio, obtained by ProPublica, captures Dudek referring to young DOGE staffers as “the DOGE kids” and confirming that they have “broad access” to sensitive Social Security numbers and other personal information.
In a sworn legal declaration, Flick claimed that DOGE officials arrived at SSA with preconceived notions of widespread fraud, despite no evidence to support such claims. According to her, DOGE agents ignored internal fraud detection safeguards and lacked proper training to prevent data breaches.
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https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/social-security-trump-doge?utm_source=microsoft
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Axios obtained a draft of the memo, signed by acting deputy Social Security commissioner for operations Doris Diaz on March 13, and written on behalf of the agency’s operations department.
The memo was sent one day after the agency denied, in a press release, a report it was scrapping its toll-free phone line.
“People have a lot of trouble with the identification process,” says Jen Burdick, a lawyer who provides free legal services for Americans trying to get Social Security disability benefits.
Yeah, Ivy, the RussoRepublican Senators, Reps, and cabinet members need to remember how it ended.
Will we have modern day Nuremberg trials? Just following orders isnāt a defense, but if they were, whose orders were they following? Sh/tler? Putin? Musk? Thiel?
Sturg – Removed the cleaning supplies, turned on an industrial fan, not using it until someone can look at it. Itās not dripping down from the sink, so must be beading along a line.
turn off the valves
then open the faucet then close it
then turn on one valve, see if it leaks, repeat for other valve
turn off valves again if inconclusive
if it leaks with valves off you got a bad valve
if it doesnāt you take a photo with your phone and get two new supply lines at the hardware store tomorrow, hold a ruler by the line for the photo
cheap crescent wrench if you need one, prolly 3/8ā, will say on the line or you can just measure the fitting nut now
you got this, youtube it if in doubt šŖ šŗšø
Slava Ukraine šŗš¦
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-trump-secret-service-ashley-50eba3fcd1ef9d2580fb4bc464d229f6
āTrump says heās ending Secret Service protection for Bidenās adult childrenā
āFormer presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office. But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office, something Biden did for his children and Trump did for his family after leaving office in 2021. Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush also extended protection for their families for a period.ā
*Making a public statement about it seems like heās signaling his cult membersā¦those who havenāt figured out heās cutting SS, VA, farm subsidies, etc.
If they fuck up Social Security 73 Million people are going to freak the fuck out.
Dodo is a big problem but his blackshirts and henchmen are the bigger problem.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/us-institute-of-peace-says-doge-has-broken-into-its-building-00234639
The Trump administration fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization on Monday, in its latest effort targeting agencies tied to foreign assistance work.
The remaining three members of the groupās board ā Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Defense University President Peter Garvin ā fired President and CEO George Moose on Friday, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
Current USIP employees said staffers from Elon Muskās Department of Government Efficiency entered the building despite protests that the institute is not part of the executive branch. USIP called the police, whose vehicles were outside the building Monday evening.
USIP is a congressionally funded independent nonprofit that works to advance U.S. values in conflict resolution, ending wars and promoting good governance.
Moose vowed legal action, saying that āwhat has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit.ā
He said the instituteās headquarters, located across the street from the State Department, is not a federal building.
Moose said the organization had been speaking with DOGE since last month, trying to explain its independent status. Speaking of Trump, he said, āI canāt imagine how our work could align more perfectly with the goals that he has outlined: keeping us out of foreign wars, resolving conflicts before they drag us into those kinds of conflicts.ā
On Friday, DOGE members arrived with two FBI agents but left after the instituteās lawyer told them of USIPās āprivate and independent status,ā the organization said in a statement that day.
Chief of security Colin OāBrien said police on Monday helped DOGE members enter the building and that the private security team for the organization had its contract canceled.
The nonprofit says it was created by Congress in 1984 as an āindependent nonprofit corporation,ā and it does not meet U.S. Code definitions of āgovernment corporation,ā āgovernment-controlled corporationā or āindependent establishment.ā
FFS! DOGE/tRUMPutin must be stopped!
D-Day is a long way away.
Iām all for boycotts to teach companies a lesson, but this administration is trying to collapse the economy. How does helping them do it help us?
it doesnāt unless you’re an accelerationist and iām not personally
anybody can post anything, ya know?
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ukraine-territory/
āPresident Donald Trump is mulling over whether to recognize Crimea as Russian as part of any future deal to end the war in Ukraine, according to a report.ā
Crimea is part of Ukraine that Putin ~annexed~ a decade ago. tRUMPutin canāt just decide this sh/t.
NEW THREAD
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study FindsTesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that’s twice the industry average, according to a new report.
The study was conducted on model year 2018ā2022 vehicles, and focused on crashes between 2017 and 2022 that resulted in occupant fatalities. Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study.
The average fatal crash rate for all cars in the United States is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven.
The Tesla Model S has a rate more than double than average, at 5.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; meanwhile, the Tesla Model Y ā the best-selling vehicle in the world has a fatal crash rate of 10.6, nearly four times the average.
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AI:
As of October 2024, there have been fifty-one reported fatalities involving Tesla’s Autopilot system, with many incidents attributed to the system’s failure to ensure driver attention and appropriate use. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised concerns about the safety of Autopilot, linking it to hundreds of collisions.
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Ha! More Teslas on fire at dealershipsā¦and the dealerships have fireproof blankets in case those suckers catch on fireā¦for whatever reason.
Remember when Pintos caught on fire, several humans died, and it was all over the news???