Doing what comes naturally to a “christian” [gift link but you have to log in, I think]:
The aide intervened last June, citing concerns that a subpoena could expose the texts, according to the correspondence and the person, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about private conversations. Johnson revived the investigation this week as part of an effort by President Donald Trump and his allies to seek retribution against perceived political enemies, including those who investigated his role in the Capitol attack.
In a meeting following the June conversation, Johnson (R-Louisiana.) and senior aides also conveyed to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) and members of his staff that issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson and asking her to testify under oath would serve as another opportunity for her to retell her story and potentially embarrass the Trump White House, according to two people present for the meeting.
Totally on-brand for this fucker to try to suppress information about any sort of sexual misconduct.
Note also that the new management at the Post comes from the British tabloids, so this is the kind of story that they can really milk. Of course, the real issue is that the J6 terrorists were pardoned and that Pastor Mike is going on a witch hunt to try to prove that everyone lied about what we saw with our own eyes, live on TV.
I doubt it will amount to anything, but worth repeating. Also, I still have the Post for a few more months even though I canceled, so enjoy the gift link.
Jeffro
LEAK THE TEXTS!!!
SpaceUnit
No clicks for the WP, gift link or otherwise.
Old School
To be honest, I don’t want to see those either.
tobie
Emptywheel is reporting that McConnell will vote against Hegseth along with Murkowski and Collins. Will a fourth no vote sink the nomination?
https://mastodon.social/deck/@[email protected]/113879393150997433
JoyceH
Murkowsky comes out against Hegseth in a lengthy statement.
hells littlest angel
Covenant Eyes Alert! Covenant Eyes Alert! Covenant Eyes Alert!
TBone
A deguello in her honor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0
RedDirtGirl
@hells littlest angel: Who needs porn when you’ve got republican texts to read?
Baud
Mike’s son knows.
TBone
@RedDirtGirl:
Kathleen Kane KNOWS. She is serving hard time now.
Lest we forget:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42234/porngate-pennsylvania-kathleen-kane/
Belafon
@hells littlest angel: Johnson and his son need to be introduced to the guy who was trying to live forever and his son. Those two also have a weird habit together.
Quinerly
@tobie:
There was a rumor this AM that Tillis is a no.
Baud
@tobie:
That would be sweet. I’m skeptical because they don’t have a fourth yet. But maybe it saves Fetterman from doing something stupid.
Old School
@tobie:
With Vance’s resignation, the split is currently
52-47.That’s incorrect.Leto
@Baud: Glad I’m not the only one who remembers that. /shudder ick
Baud
@Old School:
Aren’t OH and FL replacements in yet?
TBone
@TBone: even if not still imprisoned, her life was tossed into the gutter for telling the truth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Kane
That’s what I mean by “hard time.”
Old School
@Baud: You’re correct. Looks like they were sworn in yesterday.
hells littlest angel
??? Sounds like they have at least two weird habits.
cmorenc
To mount Congressional hearings attempting to 180 deg re-cast J6 is a spectacularly stupid, arrogant move – it would be far better tactically for TFG to let it recede into myth shaped by the fact that he won a slight majority in 2024 and the potent reshaping of the federal government he is powering along, whereas there is no way to actually tangibly revisit it in hearings without colliding with land mines of vivid fact on video. His titanic, fragile revenge-driven ego and arrogant overreach may be the start of his undoing. He is violating the principle “don’t mess with success”. He is incapable of just letting it go when that would far better serve his own interests.
hueyplong
@hells littlest angel: And the “at least” isn’t just sitting idly by.
tobie
@Quinerly: @Baud: @Old School: I’m not convinced of the rumor re: McConnell, and don’t want to get my hopes up but that would be something if he and Tillis broke from the admin.
Old School
The networks better be on their best behavior!
Citizen Alan
I am absolutely one hundred percent convinced that mike johnson is some kind of sexual deviant. Maybe a pedo. Maybe a diaper guy. Maybe a diving outfit and two butt plugs guy. I don’t know, and I’m slightly nauseous when contemplating it. But he’s some kind of sexual weirdo, and he ain’t the celibate kind.
TBone
@cmorenc: disagree – he’s now got an army of wily, resentful rednecks and there’s nothing meaner on this planet than a resentful redneck. Ask Kathleen Kane.
TBone
@Old School: JFC
gratuitous
From the Post’s reporting, it sounds like they know the names of at least some of the lawmakers. Isn’t it nice, though, of the Post not to do anything reckless like name names. I mean, it’s not like they e-mailed each other on a private server that was never compromised. At least, I don’t think they did. Which means it was good old All-American misogyny played out on government e-mails. God bless America.
Geminid
My Atlanta friend texted me that he just watched “another fine Jeffries press conference.” He’s a fan.
A Ghost to Most
Moses Mike is the perfect first Speaker of Gilead. Incompetent, and magically-impaired.
K-Mo
Um, what? Lawmakers sending sexually explicit texts to a young woman staffer?
That’s truly terrible. Not OK.
Baud
@Geminid:
People will still complain about the Dems not doing press conferences.
K-Mo
@Citizen Alan: Every time I see his picture I think, pretty good transition. I wonder when he started the hormone therapy.
banditqueen
Yet another ugly, frightening experience for a young woman working to support the repub men of the US government. Did they send her dick pics, innuendo about an “interesting evening in a private office for an after hours discussion how congress really works”, bribery/flattery/fake promises, threats? Will they say her professional attire–heels, demure suit, etc were “enticing and tempting”? Why ever would they think Ms Hutchinson, or anyone at all, owes them “favors”? And get ready for the next Jan 6 “investigation” run by the men who sent the texts who can fall back on the old standby, droit du seigneur. How much more blatantly sordid and corrupt can this maladministration get?
Ryan
Well. and you have that Bezos dipshit up there throwing his enterprise under the bus. Won’t stand up for any of the reporting.
cmorenc
@TBone: A congressional committee can run a kangaroo-court hearing on J6, including deceptively edited video, but cannot prevent actual video of the violent break-in and running destructively amok from being prominently broadcast. Even this SCOTUS is not going to go along with Trump’s attempts to punish media for failing to obey his dictates.
Geminid
@Baud: “What press conference?”
ArchTeryx
@tobie: So they’re getting Golden Tickets. Change my mind.
eclare
Beautiful photo today.
hueyplong
@cmorenc: And we’d like to think Democrats wouldn’t be dumb enough to decline to serve on the committee in order to throw some sand in the gears.
Baud
@hueyplong:
They got criticized for serving on the DOGE committee, but I agree it’s better for them to participate.
Chris Johnson
@tobie: Murkowski has every reason to vote against Hegseth. The DoD is the ONLY thing stopping Alaska from being just given to Russia, which would probably lead to Murkowski’s death or imprisonment. Of course she’s a no, she’s directly at risk.
And I’m not surprised at Mitch. ‘Moscow Mitch’ isn’t like Trump. Mitch can fuck with Russia, rip them off, and then flip them off, if and only if he’s convinced they don’t have the goods. He was one of the first to be corrupt and work with them for Republican advantage, and that got us here. But he also understands all this is to ruin America (and him) and he’s like, ‘nope. Thanks for your service. We keep our power now’. And Putin is like ‘oh no you don’t’. And look, Mitch is still there, and now he’s opposing more Trump nominations? HMMMMM.
ArchTeryx
@Chris Johnson: It also would put a bunch of Russian nukes right at our front door, and make the Cuban Missile Crisis look like a Sunday church picnic. Even Murkowski doesn’t want to see her country go up in flames, or herself tortured to death, and she has ZERO investment in Trump or most of the modern Republican party.
She’s still a Republican at the core, but she isn’t a nihilistic death cultist. She knows where this ends. So maybe this ISN’T just another rotating villain/Golden Ticket scam. I’ll believe it when Hegseth goes down.
sab
@eclare: Yes. Today’s is beautiful So was yesterday’s.
Good idea of yours to comment on it.
Barry
@cmorenc: “To mount Congressional hearings attempting to 180 deg re-cast J6 is a spectacularly stupid, arrogant move”
It’s Trump punishing his enemies.
Geminid
@hueyplong: If this year’s Oversight Committee hearings are anything like last year’s, Committee Democrats will run rings around their Republican colleagues. It was like the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals.
That’s why I was glad to see they were creating a subcommittee to promote DOGE initiatives. I think they’re even going to put Marjorie Greene in charge. I sure hope so, and I hope Elon Musk will testify as much as he wants. It will be an opportunity to take that cocky asshole down a notch or two.
Dangerman
Seeing more Cybertrucks on the road. WTF? Tesla having a 2 for 1 sale? Elon buying one for ALL his children? MAGAs want to reward Elon for getting the POS elected by buying the POS? I don’t get it. They are butt ugly and have “issues”. Buyers have issues I guess.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Barry:
Why’d you leave off the rest of cmorec’s quote?
Quinerly
Trump taking questions. Accusing the J6 Committee of “destroying every document.” Says he is open to having the J6ers he pardoned visit the WH.
Declassified everything on assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr by EO.
Pardons anti abortion protesters convicted under FACE Act
Mr. Bemused Senior
Trump has a self-destructive streak. We’ve seen it before. He gets away with a lot but every so often he goes too far. This is a weakness we should exploit.
Gin & Tonic
@Chris Johnson:
Two words: Oleg Deripaska.
JoyceH
Hutchinson’s lawyer needs to make a public statement that goes something like this: “A file has been created of Ms Hutchinson’s entire text history. This file exists in multiple copies, all in secure locations. My office retains a copy of the file with instructions to release it in the event of Ms Hutchinson’s death, incapacity, or if threats and intimidation, in person, online, or telephoned, finally snap her last nerve.”
Belafon
@hueyplong: I’m curious about this: How does NOT participating throw sand in the gears?
WaterGirl
@eclare:
Agree! Just stunning. I hope people know they can click on it and see the full photos in all their glory.
Baud
@Quinerly:
The UFO people are going to be mad he hasn’t declassified those secrets.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Quinerly:
I’m assuming that it will still be some days before the information is released to the public? If not, anything interesting revealed or was it just as we all thought/was reported?
Jesus Christ it never stops
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Why would it stop?
Chief Oshkosh
@Quinerly:
I’ll be very surprised if ALL the docs even exist anymore. I mean, how would we know anyway
ETA: But this fits with Trump’s willingness to pander to the rednecks, who still want to know who should be of should’ve been cheered on. Next he’ll declassify all the info on UFOs, Area 51, and Bigfoot.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
It really is a stunning photo. Is this a new feature where anyone can send a picture in to be featured?
Chris
@Quinerly:
Pandering to the Boomer vote, I see.
Old School
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It’s a recent addition to the site, but I believe it is featuring past On The Road photos.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Just a figure of speech, I guess? Exasperated horror?
John S.
@Quinerly:
A brilliant distraction for the rubes while he continues to fuck them over.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@John S.:
Unless there’s something new there, who’s honestly going to care?
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Agree about the photo.
@Old School: @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I am just mining the WordPress Media Library – any image that has ever been posted is in there. Garden Chats, On the Road, Open Threads, everything.
So many awesome photos already in hand.
Jay
Great OpEd,
https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-is-trying-to-reframe-cruelty
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Old School:
Interesting. I like it as an addition to the blog page
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Historians.
Chris Johnson
@ArchTeryx: If they want nukes they would have to be shipped OURS. But then, aren’t there nukes in Alaska? So yeah. Let’s not have Hegseth dismantle the DoD and sell all the bits to Russia, thanks.
TBone
@Jay: that Overton Window on Pandora’s Box has been thrown wide open. Little old lady at the animal hospital bragging about enjoying the bloodsport when she lets loose her dogs on raccoons, possums, and squirrels, gleefully.
ETA manners – thank you for sharing!
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think I put one up on New Year’s Day with fireworks in honor of the new year. And someone suggested that it would be nice in these times to be reminded every day that there’s still beauty in the world.
So I figured we’d try it for awhile and see how it goes.
cmorenc
@tobie: Tillis just might be a “no” because NC hosts three huge military bases, the Army’s Ft Liberty aka Ft Bragg in Fayetteville (aka “FayetteNam”, and the Marine’s Camp LeJeune in Jacksonville, and the AF’s Seymour Johnson in Goldsboro. The notion of a hack with a drinking problem running the Pentagon might be a bit concerning. And Tillis is a bona fide ideological conservative, but not a complete MAGA hack like NC’s other Senator Ted Budd.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
Nice! You definitely have a treasure trove to pick through
@Baud:
Well, yeah, that goes without saying. I was more referring to the broader public in the context of a distraction.
I’m curious why Biden never declassified this information?
Chris Johnson
@Quinerly: Does he think there’s creepy stuff that does not reflect badly on Republicans about the JFK/RFK/MLK etc assassinations?
Is there? Is there stuff about how in fact the Republicans, or the DoD, or whoever, Hoover’s FBI, conspired to do it?
The thing is you can’t assume he knows anything or is smart in any way, so it could be nothing or actually go poorly for Republicans. Or, he could be getting made to do this because somebody knows it’s a Republican FBI or something.
In which case that becomes Trump’s justification for sending in a Russian plant to completely dismantle and repurpose the FBI or any such agency that’s actually been up to no good. They could’ve been up to no good this whole time and Trump’s/Russia’s intentions for them would still be worse than what we had. It sounds like either he’s an idiot, or someone’s found or faked evidence that the FBI or someone were conducting political assassinations.
If it’s that, it won’t help them to have been doing assassinations for Republicans. They will now have to be doing them for Russia, and so previous loyalty to our enemies will be for naught.
I do wonder if that could backfire, with a lot of pissed-off and betrayed formerly Republican FBI agents seeking revenge and having a lot of material, a lot of resources, and a lot of experience in skullduggery. I’m sure Trump feels immune but I’m not sure he should.
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Given how dominant Conspiracy Theories are on the right, release of the documents will have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of “Merkins will be obsessively pouring over every word, every period, every comma in their basement “Command Center”. never noticing that Dolt 47 gave Alaska to ruZZia, that eggs, when you can find them are $1 each, that their insulin is now $1500 a dose and the Snack Sized bags of Flaming Hot Dorito’s are now $9.95.
And out of this, the Reich will create their new alternate reality.
Quinerly
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
He kinda teased some surprises in the docs declassified. Who knows? He’s such a liar.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jfk-assassination-files-release-b2685406.html
TBone
@Jay: 🎯
ArchTeryx
@Chris Johnson: I didn’t think there were – far too destabilizing – but I think there’s at least one USAF base there with B-52s on standby. Nukes start flying, it’s not that long a flight from Alaska to Moscow; a deterrent without being destabilizing.
I could be wrong, though. Certainly not my area of expertise; I’m an Army brat.
Quinerly
@John S.:
Yep
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
How exactly is Trump going to “give” Alaska, a US state with representation in Congress, to Russia? And those people aren’t everybody
TBone
Remember what my beloved uncle taught me (besides juggling and American Sign Language) as a child: sleight of hand “magic” tricks. Smoke & mirrors.
Downpuppy
Chris Johnson
@Quinerly: I mean, to me the surprises could be ‘FBI sided with Republicans and assassinated an American President’ and while that would SEEM to stain Republicans, it would still be an opportunity to wipe out the agency and replace it with straight up traitors, not just ‘untrustworthy partisans’.
Old School
@John S.:
He should have spaced them out then. JFK this week, RFK next week. Eventually, the Moon landing, 9/11, etc.
TBone
@Downpuppy: please to warn in future of xitter links.
TBone
@Old School: Fux Snooze will do that for him, endlessly.
Chris Johnson
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Watch closely. It would be a very big ask and probably would be grounds for revolt: particularly as that’s been a Republican state, and it would stop there being fifty states, change the flag etc etc and in all ways be an EPIC disaster, PR-wise.
Doesn’t change the fact that Trump would give Alaska to Russia if he could get away with it. He is entirely owned, a complete puppet. Watch what he’s currently doing: the acts of someone under total control of an adversary. He doesn’t know shit about any of this stuff that he’s doing in blitzkrieg/kamikaze fashion. He’s being run.
Quinerly
@Old School:
Smiling emoji
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
How exactly has Dolt 47 nullified the 14th Amendment?
Quinerly
Reading between the lines, Sen Blumenthal seems to be saying more damaging stuff on Hegseth to come out tomorrow.
My take. He’s on MSNBC
Ruckus
@cmorenc:
Whatever else he is he’s also an idiot.
Wasn’t necessarily born that way but has simply degraded into one. He’s afflicted with senioritis, a continuous brain fart, and an ego that far, far outweighs his everything else. Which is worth about a minus $50,000,000. Which he proves second by second.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
He…hasn’t? It’s been blocked in court, for now
Harrison Wesley
@Citizen Alan: He’s the 2025 Norman Bates.
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
For now,……………………………….
TBone
@Downpuppy: I welcome their militant snowflakery – hit dawgs a hollerin’!
TBone
@Jay: 14 day block
Downpuppy
@TBone: Rolling the cursor over any link before clicking it is one of those things you’re just supposed to know.
@mistermix.bsky.social
My current thinking is 45% chance they’re holding the texts to make this a multi-day story, 30% chance they keep them in their pocket for Bezos to use, 25% chance that they’re too scared to release them.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
It’s blatantly unconstitutional. And good luck trying to “give” an entire US state to a foreign country, especially one that has historically been pretty GOP. This is doomerism
TBone
@Downpuppy: I don’t have a cursor on my device. I used computers for 30 long years up close and way too personal so I’m on a dumbphone.
My curser is on my mouth!
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl:
I like it. Just FYI, if you’re looking for feedback.
sab
@Downpuppy: Prosperity Gospel is iffy on its Christianity.
sab
@WaterGirl: Every day when I come in late and toggle to the bottom to work up backwards, there are those lovely images. You have been choosing well.
Ruckus
I’m an old fart and my senioritis really can’t take this shitforbrains crap any longer.
I was hoping to enjoy retirement and develop my case of senioritis slowly as the days go by but fuck if shitforbrains can’t fuck up every damn thing he’s within 5,000 miles of, and 90% of every damn thing farther away but still on this earth. And to think that people actually voted for this complete piece of shit.
Have to say that I really wasn’t expecting this much shit in my old fart days.
am
Not apropos of anything. I don’t think it is enjoyble to be snarky as much any more.
The Budde / Bonhoeffer Blusky post in an earlier post? Not so funny. Cynicism feels incorrect for the moment. Bonhoeffer was hung to death in the last days of WW2 out of revenge. I can’t bring myself to appreciate the sarcasm.
Geminid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): There could be something new in those records, and maybe a lot new. One thing about the Kennedy assasination: it occurred at the height of the Cold War. That made it easier– even required– to sweep sensitive matters under the rug and park a safe over them.
sab
@TBone: What is a dumbphone? I have a flip-phone and am ridiculed daily by my own family.
I also have a Nook ( Barnes and Noble) which communicates with the outside world without being intrusive about it.
Plus I have a laptop I try to keep off the internet as much as our state’s yahoos allow.
Quicksand
My god. Who is this EO and how did he get away with it?
Belafon
@am: This is probably not going to be the site for you then. Sarcasm, cynicism, and gallows humor are coping mechanism for some.
TBone
@sab: it’s a play on the words ‘smart phone.’
I have long stories about why and how I coined that nickname.
I should tell some so you can ridicule them right back but I’m really tired today.
John S.
@Quicksand:
Evil Oligarchs.
Quinerly
State department staff on Thursday were ordered to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker” from the definition provided in the executive order. The policy affects both current and future passport applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-rubio-x-gender-passport
Baud
Old School
@Quicksand:
Ed O’Neill has connections in Hollywood.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Quinerly:
Hard at work making groceries less expensive, I see. They definitely have their hands on the pulse of the nation and what people want //
sab
@TBone: So we are not kindred spirits about our phones.
I like my very limited flip-phone. It does what it does and nothing more. Rings when people call. Takes messages when they leave them. Has an alarm if I set it, but otherwise doesn’t bother me.
My husband’s smartphone is so obtrusive to our daily life that I want to take it out and back the car over it. Multiple times a day.
Jeffro
@Downpuppy: the very IDEA that a Republican would have the gall to lecture any of us, ever, about what’s “shameful”…!!!!!!!!
Jackie
@tobie:
McTurtle did this today:
Why vote yes in the Senate procedural vote, then vote no to confirm Hegseth as Sec DoD?
Captain C
@Citizen Alan: I’m convinced that he and his son use that porn-spy app to alert each other to the good stuff, for whatever their definition of ‘good stuff’ is.
Steve LaBonne
@Quinerly: By that idiotic scientifically illiterate “definition” we are all female, because development of female sex organs is the default developmental pathway and sexual differentiation in any case happens a long time after fertilization.
Quinerly
@Baud:
Blumenthal seemed to be signaling some shoes will drop tomorrow. My gut tells me something is being coordinated. I don’t think Collins and Murkowski would have come out today without at least 2 more coming out tomorrow. I have been very wrong lately but I’m guessing Tillis and McConnell will come out as no votes tomorrow.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
I guess we’ll see
Jackie
@TBone:
Agree. I don’t want to support the Puppeteer president by inadvertently giving him clicks.
sab
OT: satby’ s little rescue Echo slept in my bed about three hours last night, with the pitbull asleep on the other side of me. So she knows the pitbull is safe. Then Sadie the black cat climbed on top of me.
After a couple of hours it just got too hot. Room was at 65° but the mutitude of animals really cranked it up. I was sweating when I kicked the cats off and took the dog out.
Echo’s brother was sitting on top of the fridge yet again when husband went for his morning snack.
Solomon is a sweet tempered cat, but he is huge. Normal cats have baseball sized heads. His is softball sized. Plus, my other cats heads barely come up to his shoulder. He is just a very, very big boy.
Shalimar
@Quinerly: If Trump knew legitimate surprises, he would have blurted them out already.
AWOL
@Baud: Respected bestselling US historian and honorable television/radio host Bill O’Reilly really overpaid, eh?
TBone
@sab: oh but we ARE
I disrespect my phone on a daily basis just so it remembers me! Do you know how many times I have backed my car over this thing? Hahahaha! I am only on it because I can prop it up a respectful distance away out of my personal space and because I DETEST large Cathode Ray Tubes!
I wish I could post some of my dumbphone memes for you! I would LOVE an old school flip phone!
narya
@WaterGirl: I’m a fan! Thank you!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I’m not enough?
TBone
@Chris Johnson: I just watched a dumb question posed to John Brennan by Nicole Wallace: why is he revoking security clearances from vetted professionals and rushing through new ones to unqualified, unvetted persons?
Anybody remember Pooty? Bueller???
No question is dumb in my world, I guess some people are still in denial and need to be led…but Brennan didn’t answer correctly.
TBone
@Steve LaBonne: which confirms some of my crackpot theories about testosterone.
TBone
@sab: Noah has a big softball-sized noggin AND HE IS COMING HOME TOMORROW.
Vet said he’s doing great with his new (bigger) feeding tube and she’ll teach me how to take over!
TBone
@Baud: you do it for me!
sab
I am so very very very glad. It sounded like he was done for. Yay for big noggined cats surviving.
Doc Sardonic
Great to hear that Noah is coming home.
tobie
ICE raided a Newark, NJ establishment today and detained US citizens without a warrant. Do these citizens have to sue the US Fed Govt for redress? Seems like a tall order for people struggling to make ends meet.
Statement from Newark’s mayor here.
Steve LaBonne
@TBone: Excellent news. Good luck.
lowtechcyclist
@Quinerly:
Sounds like an invitation for the J6 Committee to put them all online.
Oh, that would be fun. There are surely some of them who’d know how to act in such an environment. A bunch more would be like bulls in a china shop, even if they intended to behave well.
I actually agree with this. Way overdue.
Not good, but hardly surprising.
TBone
@Steve LaBonne: luck and skill win the prize!
Oh. Perseverance – sprinkle that shit EVERYWHERE.
Dan B
So Rubio is going after trans by forcing them to use the gender at birth. Uts only for new passports but the rest is coming soon.
TBone
@sab:
@Doc Sardonic:
Thank you! We are not out the woods just yet, but he’ll do much better emotionally here with his beloveds. And that’ll help him physically.
Anyhow, he got pardoned!
Ohio Mom
@lowtechcyclist: Except I wouldn’t trust the documents they make available on the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinstions. I would think they were forgeries, or at least some of them were.
What a way to commit a coverup, by acting like you are uncovering important information.
Kay
@tobie:
I was hoping that would come up. ICE are using “administrative warrants” that aren’t compliant with the Fourth Amendment. Immigrant and Bill of Rights defenders anticipated and planned this opposition on that objection. Can’t use a fake warrant to search and detain people.
ICE walked right into that.
Dan B
@tobie: And a US military veteran! ICE is rapidly going Stasi.
TBone
@Steve LaBonne: thank you!
I’m a born nurse but between hubby & Noah I’m gonna be bizzy!
Two toward end of middle aged males!
lowtechcyclist
@Jay:
Couldn’t resist.
Kay
@tobie:
This issue is absolutely going to come up in the new anti immigrant law Congress passed too. Its why I thought Democrats shouldn’t sign on to it – its a threat to all of our civil liberties.
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: I concur.
TBone
@tobie: where’s Cory Booker?
TBone
@Ohio Mom: smoke and mirrors all the way down.
lowtechcyclist
@Downpuppy:
Yeah, the nerve of Bishop Budde calling for mercy. It isn’t like Jesus ever said anything like “blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.”
Oh wait, he did say that? When did those goddamn liberals sneak that ‘woke’ crap into my Bible?!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
What do you think of the “the 48 had to vote yes because it’s a salient issue and they could get wiped out in their next election if they voted no (or even voted present), and we need them to win a majority in the next Congress” argument?
Doc Sardonic
@TBone: I have dealt with a cat with a feeding tube in the past, but it has been a while. However, if necessary I can probably find the information in the recesses of my cobweb filled brain if you need it.
TBone
@Doc Sardonic: THANK YOU am slightly nervous about that part BUT will receive an instructional session with a vet before I bring him home. What kind of food goes through the tube?
Jackie
Talk about ass- kissing…
The FFOTUS will love Ogles – until he doesn’t.
Kay
Surely the Libertarians who endorsed Donald Trump will boldly step forward and defend the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution now that Trump’s brownshirts are busting in without a warrant.
Well, they would but they’re full of shit so liberals will be the only ones coming forward. As usual.
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: my favorite
Quinerly
@Jackie:
I guess it will take 8 years instead of a few days to get the price of eggs down.
TBone
@Jackie: sniveling fealty
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Imagine “Beauty and the Beast” without Beauty. Just not the same! ;-)
Doc Sardonic
@TBone: When our cat had the feeding tube it was a Science Diet food, A/D I think, which is a high calorie food. It is a fairly soft food but we still had to dilute it to get it through the tube.
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: hey! I resemble that remark!
Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I don’t know. I’m sympathetic. It’s true that people have turned against immigrants. That’s the political reality. And the complaints about immigrants from labor are valid – they say they bring down wages and don’t understand unions.
But it’s a shit law. Couldn’t they have been less sloppy? They are ABSOLUTELY going to violate the Fourth Amendment in the operation of this law.
Lawyers call these “apostrophe laws” – laws passed on behalf or because of one victim by name. They’re always junk and they always have unintended consequences.
I actually think there’s a human right to cross a border, so am radical fringe pro-immigration, but I accept the reality that a lot of Americans are upset about immigration. I just wish they had worked harder. It screams “we’re panicking!” to me.
TBone
@Doc Sardonic: thank you ever so, that helps me a lot. I thought it was some kind of liquid in a bag or something! I can dilute with homemade chicken stock. I got this. You helped me build up confidence.
cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Especially one with oil. That would be silly.
Pretty sure Alaskans would be ready for a war at that point.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@TBone:
I sure would like someone to ask some Republican electeds why this pathetic behavior is so normalized on their side when that’s not the case for the Dems
Doc Sardonic
@Kay: Nah the lbertariatards got what they wanted from The Persimmon Pustule when he pardoned the Silk Road founder
TBone
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I have been randomly shouting at the TV sometimes
TBone
Where IS Senator Cory Booker, former Mayor of Newark? If ICE is in his hood, I’d expect to hear from him – he literally ran into a burning building to save people in the past.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-17700783
Doc Sardonic
@TBone: Things may have changed a little over time but that was my experience. It had to be thin enough to be able to push it out of a feeding syringe, through the tube into the cat. The key was consistency of the food and the speed you pushed it in. We learned to watch his face, if he started licking his lips a lot we knew he was getting queasy because we were pushing the food too fast.
TBone
@Doc Sardonic: thank you SO much for your knowledgeable tips!
I’m going to have to write down some questions tonight so I don’t forget to ask how what when he can get free of the tube if he pulls off yet another miraculous recovery. When he had sarcoma tumor removed years ago, surgeon begged me to amputate his entire hind leg and it turned out THAT was unnecessary and I’m really glad I said oh helll to the naw!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
Well, to be fair, we all know that that Jesus, aka Jesus, might have said such a thing but the only Jesus that matters, Republican Jesus, never said that commie, soshulist crap.
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Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
There was a horrendous older child/ younger child sex abuse case in Ohio. So the OH leg passed a rushed, political grandstanding law where they planned to slot juvenile sex offenders into 25 year long designations as sex offenders. It was insane. We were going to make Tier Three sex offenders out of 17 year old boys who had sex with 13 year old girls. So they quietly amended the law, but not before it had ruined people’s lives.
Juju
@Jackie: If the Republicans try to pass an amendment, I don’t think it would pass in time even if he did make it through his second term.
scav
@Jackie: Finally we are being protected from leaders that are just too old.
Quinerly
Did not know this. From 2018:
“Matthew Shepard, who was murdered at 21 years old in 1998 in an anti-gay hate crime, will be interred at Washington National Cathedral……..
The service will be presided over by the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, and the Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church.”
And
“Shepard will be one of approximately 200 people to have been interred in the Cathedral over the last century. Others interred at the Cathedral include President Woodrow Wilson; Bishop Thomas Claggett, the first Episcopal Bishop ordained on American soil; Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and U.S. Navy Admiral George Dewey.
https://www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shepard-to-be-interred-at-washington-national-cathedral/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH_ugVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHX7_ugWjKK1n-CtHXsehZLh0crSuJLv9ROGnhPGoxA_h6CSMouZyRfqZLw_aem_TxqZ1zPrujk-2d8gDroWpg
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Not directed at you because I know you know better and all, but people also turned against Jews (and others) in Germany. Immigrants are just scapegoats used for political gain. I agree with you this law will be abused. I think this and the mass deportations will be a black mark on our history, like the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2. I think they should’ve voted no because it’s a bad law
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
That’s horrible. I’d never heard of that until now. Ohio fucking sucks
2liberal
open thread: i retired at the end of 2023. after the election I said “oh shit, him again” and started sending out resumes. if something drastic happens I want to have money coming in the door. I’m now working again.
It’s a terrible time for too many people. I can only hope we win the House and/or the Senate next time around.
Our nations government should not be a right wing freak show.
Old School
@TBone: Wonderful to hear Noah is coming home.
Here’s hoping you both have an easy time adjusting to the new routine.
Sister Golden Bear
@Quinerly: There’s a few reports of trans/non-binary people who went to get their passports renewed today — since in theory the EO doesn’t take effect until Feb. 20 — and not only were they were denied the ability to change their gender markers, they were told the passport authority had the ability to confiscate their passports “until the legislation being written on them goes through.” (Unfortunately, no real details about who and where.)
A WH spokescritter on Tuesday said Trump’s EO on passport gender markers won’t be enforced retroactively — I don’t believe that for a second, but it’ll take them time to go after trans people with existing passports.
Quinerly
@Kay:
I missed this part of the argument until now.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/excluding-indians-trump-admin-questions-164312466.html
Heidi Mom
@Kay: IIRC, some hard work by Republican Sen. Lankford and others went into the proposed immigration law that Biden supported, and Trump ordered Republicans to vote against it because it might have looked as though a solution had been achieved without him. So here we are . . . .
tam1MI
YAYYYYYY!!!!! 😀
lowtechcyclist
@TBone:
Glad to hear it!!!
Downpuppy
@TBone: I’ll try to remember. Was using this feature because a phone user complained that when I posted a long link it threw off their view.
am
@Belafon: Thanks for the concern. I’ve been here 20 years, I am just mostly quiet. So I will stay.
kalakal
@TBone: Yay! So happy for you
Darkrose
@WaterGirl: Where was that taken, do we know?
Citizen Alan
@am: So you don’t think that Budde’s life is now in actual jeopardy as a result of her stand? If some MAGA freak kills, it won’t be so bad because she didn’t actually die in a camp?
Citizen Alan
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: ac
According to fred clark, the official line of evangelical christians is that nothing jesus said in the beatitudes is relevant to the world we live in. It was actually description of how things will be in heaven for the true believers, once the rest of us have been exterminated and sent to hell
am
@Citizen Alan: I think that bluesky post was too close to scoring internet clever points around that possibility and I don’t appreciate personally appreciate the tone. Others’ mileage may vary. I’m not going to be blithe about the risk to a courageous lady for espousing some basic common decency and compassion. The risk is real and the times are serious.
I will snark to my hearts content about the fact that the president has the full power of the United States behind him and still can’t find a competent makeup artist to not make him look like a piece of fucking candy corn, though.
Professor Bigfoot
@TBone: BOO-YAAAA!!! Brilliant news! Yay for Noah!