Althouse: At the Friday Night Café...

April 25, 2025

At the Friday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like.

39 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...: Hannah has some splainin to do.
Hannah C. Dugan is an American lawyer and judge from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She has been a Wisconsin circuit court judge for Milwaukee County since 2016. Prior to her judicial service, Dugan spent her career working with legal aid organizations, she previously served as executive director of Catholic Charities of Southeastern Wisconsin and is a past-president of the Milwaukee Bar Association. Wikipedia; 4/25/25, 5:58 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Catholic Charities funneled how many?; 4/25/25, 5:59 PM
Quaestor said...: Trout lilies are edible. Althouse should try a salad made from them and report back. (Assuming she doesn't croak.); 4/25/25, 6:10 PM
narciso said...: https://babylonbee.com/news/neil-degrasse-tyson-debunks-12-popular-song-lyrics heh; 4/25/25, 6:13 PM
narciso said...: https://escapekey.substack.com/p/systems-of-deception?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur&triedRedirect=true here's an interesting detail; 4/25/25, 6:17 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1915898856203817246; 4/25/25, 6:23 PM
Aggie said...: @narciso, good one. Link for those that don't do 'X':

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1915898856203817246.html; 4/25/25, 6:35 PM
Roadkill711 said...: Wisconsin politics would be substantially improved if the state ceded Kenosha, Racine, and Milwaukee counties to Illinois. The voters in those counties would get all the blue model governance that they want, and the rest of Wisconsin would be liberated from the corruption and illiberality that those voters inflict on the rest of the state.; 4/25/25, 6:36 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: That's a lot of foliage sprung from the ground in a very short period of time. It's a little scary. I hope someone is keeping an eye on things.; 4/25/25, 6:37 PM
Aggie said...: @DataRepublican is a very good investigator, especially on the NGO discovery process and USAID - here is the Threadreader site for her threads:

https://threadreaderapp.com/user/DataRepublican; 4/25/25, 6:38 PM
Mason G said...: "The voters in those counties would get all the blue model governance that they want..."

Not good enough. They want to give *you* all the blue model governance that they want, too.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.; 4/25/25, 6:40 PM
Original Mike said...: The trout lilies in my back yard are miniature, with miniature flowers.; 4/25/25, 6:46 PM
rehajm said...: One scalp would go a long way. I’m not holding my breath…; 4/25/25, 7:48 PM
paminwi said...: If you are on X follow ProfMJCleveland
She has a long thread on what happened.
Written statements from various people in attendance both in the courtroom and in the hallways.; 4/25/25, 7:56 PM
john mosby said...: Paminwi - ref Prof MJ Cleveland: Are you trying to introduce competition for Althouse? This blog ain't big enough for two hot lawprof ladies....

JSM; 4/25/25, 8:01 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Donald Trump claims to have received call from Xi Jinping and to have cut ‘200 deals’ on trade ~FT

“Trump said of the Chinese president: “He’s called. And I don’t think that’s a sign of weakness on his behalf.” However, several people familiar with the situation in Washington and Beijing said Xi had not called Trump.

The US president also made the claim that he had sealed “200 deals” on trade, even though no such pacts have been announced.”

And I thought Biden had dementia.

Trump's handlers need to stop trolling him and setting up calls with the local Chinese takeout and saying it's Xi.; 4/25/25, 8:05 PM
Eva Marie said...: @paminwi - thank you; 4/25/25, 8:08 PM
Original Mike said...: "And I thought Biden had dementia."

Then why did you tell us he was sharp as a tack?; 4/25/25, 8:15 PM
Gospace said...: I notice the left has gone completely silent on the arrest of Magistrate Joel Cano AND his wife, Nancy Cano for housing a member of the Tren de Aragua gang. Well, more has come- more then one member. Wouldn't be surprised to see their daughter joining them.

Instead they're going all out on the arrest of the Wisconsin judge for unlawfully helping an illegal immigrant domestic abuser escape apprehension. Comparing the domestic abuser to Anne Frank and saying the judge did the right thing... I wonder if it's also going to turn out this particular illegal immigrant domestic abuser also turns out to be a gang member of one of the many gangs in Mexico and further south. Wouldn't surprise me at all.; 4/25/25, 8:21 PM
Iman said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/25, 8:26 PM
Eva Marie said...: @narcisco: if possible can you place your comment before the link?; 4/25/25, 8:30 PM
Big Mike said...: Then why did you tell us [Biden] was sharp as a tack?

@Original Mike, maybe Kaki has a bunch of tacks that are as pointless as his comments.; 4/25/25, 8:30 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump's little games of bluff, boasting, and BS may have worked for him in the closed world of New York real estate and with fantasy-prone voters, but they play badly in the real world.

Something to keep in mind:

Trump really does think tariffs are free money that he can use to fund tax cuts.; 4/25/25, 8:46 PM
Original Mike said...: Rich's model economy:
Germany Downgrades Growth Outlook, Now Expects Recession For Record 3rd Year, Blames Trump

Trump wasn't president 3 years ago, Germany.; 4/25/25, 10:30 PM
Jamie said...: Can't the Left come up with ONE illegal immigrant house cleaner, supporting her two children and her elderly parents back home after her husband was killed in a combine accident, who was wrongfully accused of theft by her employer and has been deported? Why do they keep choosing violent offenders as their poster children?

I get the "due process is meaningless unless it ALSO applies to violent offenders" thing. But two problems with that: the definition of "due process" as regards deporting someone in the country illegally, and holy moly, the court of public opinion.; 4/25/25, 10:37 PM
Jamie said...: Something to keep in mind:

Trump really does think tariffs are free money that he can use to fund tax cuts.

...he said, without evidence. Just stop, Kak.; 4/25/25, 10:42 PM
Big Mike said...: Trump really does think …

Unlike Democrats, yes he does.; 4/26/25, 1:31 AM
Big Mike said...: Actually, I came here to laugh at Wisconsin, which has had Mississippi rocket past them as far as the test scores of elementary school students is concerned. So who’s the “education governor”? Is it Tony Evers, who throws money at schools? Or Tate Reeves, who throws phonics at young children?; 4/26/25, 1:43 AM
rhhardin said...: The Bongino Report is more Drudge-like and less deep state since Bongino I guess left.; 4/26/25, 1:45 AM
Michael McNeil said...: How about providing hot-link for those of us who don't do text links?; 4/26/25, 3:01 AM
gadfly said...: A Trump deportation judge permitted the transfer of a two-year-old American-born child to be sent to to Hondoras after ICE agents arrested the mother and her sister when they made a scheduled visit to the Immigration court in NW Louisiana and then put them on a plane. But the judge, whose name was Doughty, supposedly couldn't or (more likely) wouldn't turn the aircraft around because it was "already over the Gulf of America." Hondorus is a Carribbean county and its largest airport is in Tegucigalpa, south of the Yukatan Peninsula.

So I see no effort by General Bondi to arrest Judge Doughty for breaking the law, despite the child's birth certificate that was presented to the court by lawyers representing the father.; 4/26/25, 3:13 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump seems to be confused about what’s reality and what his aspirations are. Not reassuring at all.

Trump is so used to lying blatantly and obviously and being believed or at least forgiven by his followers, that he doesn’t know how else to behave anymore. It doesn’t work with foreign leaders and diplomats, but he can’t control himself. How can you deal with someone who can never be relied upon to speak the truth or keep his word?

The full transcript is bonkers.
Exclusive: Inside Trump’s First 100 Days ~ Time https://time.com/7280106/trump-interview-100-days-2025/

"US president referred to the power he had as gatekeeper for the US consumer market. “It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay,” Trump told Time."

Trump should keep all the tariffs, and exempt all products...; 4/26/25, 6:11 AM
Jamie said...: How about providing hot-link for those of us who don't do text links?

YMMV, but I use Chrome and here's how I do it: touch and hold any part of the text link until the entire link (and a bunch of stuff before and after, typically) is highlighted. Then a short bar appears above the highlighted stuff with the Chrome symbol, Open, Copy, Share, and the three dots indicating the extended menu. Tap Open, and Chrome takes you to the link, regardless of the other stuff it's highlighted. So basically it's already a hot link with two extra steps - highlight, and choose an option.

Typing out the hot link "instructions" - "a href=" etc. - is the same pain in the patoot as the dreaded italico only longer and therefore with more opportunity for trouble; I can see why some just paste the link text.; 4/26/25, 6:30 AM
Rusty said...: I wonder if this is the correct venue for Rich to be working out his mental health issues.; 4/26/25, 6:58 AM
Kakistocracy said...: ⬆️ At first I thought that all those business and finance people who supported Trump knew something I did not.

Now I know I knew something they are only now learning.; 4/26/25, 8:22 AM
Iman said...: “south of the Yukatan Peninsula”…

There is no such place.; 4/26/25, 9:08 AM
Iman said...: Where did teh bad man touch you, kaKAW?; 4/26/25, 9:09 AM
Lazarus said...: There was talk about Michigan's Upper Peninsula become a state: Superior or Ontonagon. It was also thought that the northern part of the Lower Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin joining the new state.

It's not going to happen. First because the tax money comes from the cities and their suburbs, not the rural areas, which are net beneficiaries of the budget game. Second, because once you have a new state capital all the stuff you hated about the old state capital will establish itself there.

Mississippi has been able to improve its reading scores from second from the bottom to the middle of the pack in only a few years. Is that for real? And what is wrong with New Mexico, which is at the very bottom?; 4/26/25, 12:05 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: As of this moment .before post picks tonight, its $200 win on Tiztastic with Rosario up for Asmussen (still searching for first run for the roses. I do like McCarthys colt but not sure of battling 19 others rather than groups of five.Best numbers though. Possible save with $50 one way exacta. Posts draw tonight will help me with some last loose ends to look at before sending it in! My darling still looking for a name she likes! thats how she does it! :) 2nd favorite day of Thoroughbred Racing next to Breeders Cup , top races in country battling and creating a handicapping puzzle well worth the work before firing it in...See if trump put a tariff on the windows...; 4/26/25, 12:05 PM