Yes, we have to get out there awfully early this time of year to catch the sunrise. And then this morning, the sun didn't even show. April 24, 2025
Sunrise — 5:41, 5:55.
Yes, we have to get out there awfully early this time of year to catch the sunrise. And then this morning, the sun didn't even show. 
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So Scotusblog has sold out to The Dispatch, run by some of the most despicable people breathing.
so paul thomas anderson, has attempted another pynchon adaptation, with leonardo de caprio, vineland a tome I thought unfilmable,
Watching Tony Evers' pathetic attempt at pandering with his epic fail of pretending to know how to throw a football...
Or being alive...
Watching Evers speak or doing something is the closest thing these days to necromancy.
Maybe he should go back to pretending he knows anything at all about basic female biology.
Between his belief in "birthing people " and gadfly's almost-daily failures at Kindergarten level reading/comprehension abilities, we need defund the failed public education system immediately
@Rabel: " ... The Dispatch, run by some of the most despicable people breathing."
Details? Who? Why?
because the proprietor had too many gambling debts,
From NBC News or The Babylon Bee?
"Voters should decide who our primary nominees are, not DNC leadership. Our role is to serve as stewards of a fair, open and trusted process, not to tilt the scales."'
You decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u-2yB8GJ-Q he plays a character somewhat like Tom Hayden had he never met Jane Fonda I think
"Loosely based." The name of the project and apparently the names of the characters have been changed. Vineland was interpreted by critics as a blast at Reagan's America, so I guess the movie will be a blast at Trump's. I'm not familiar with the novel, but it does seem like Pynchon is what Philip K. Dick would have been had his life and writing been blighted by an Ivy League (well, ... Cornell ...) education.
What I have read. 16,000 homes “and other structures” in LA were destroyed in last winter’s wildfire. Number of permits to rebuild issued by LA and California bureaucrats is precisely four. They’re really streamlining the ol’ red tape there, you know.
Meanwhile I read that LA is facing an $800 million budget shortfall and Mayor Karen Bass says she’ll have to cut the number of city employees. Anyone wanna bet that the cuts will be centered on the police and fire departments — and the bureaucracies that evaluate building permits.
It’s not like Scotusblog was politically neutral before but now we can now count on them to work WaPo tirelessly to tip the scales when the tough stuff happens…
…kill it, skin it, wear its hide…
I see that President Donald Trump (what a pleasure it is to type those words!) has agreed to an interview with Jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic.
I also recall an Althouse post which suggested that including Goldberg on the Signal chat was a setup and not an accident. And behold! After release of the text of the chat session Iran informed the Houthis that it was cutting them loose.
Professor Althouse can be a pretty savvy individual.
I see that Letitia James has retained Abbe Lowell as her defense attorney. That’s as sure a sign as you could want thst James is guilty, guilty, GUILTY.
So, Trump supporters who receive SS and have been deemed
“dead” by Doge, they too will have to go through the wringer to try to get their SS benefits reinstated and labeled alive again. This must be done IN PERSON. Good luck with that after the massive cuts in staff at the SSA.
“We have people who did not receive benefits come in every day with their ID and say, ‘I’m not dead, I’m alive!” says Rennie Glasgow, a claims technical analyst with 15 years of experience at the agency who handles the most challenging cases at the Schenectady office.
These supposed dead are not to be confused with more than 6,000 living immigrants the Trump administration moved to the SSA Death Master File (DMF) in an attempt to force them to self-deport by depriving them of the ability to work legally. Many more American citizens were wrongly consigned to the DMF after Elon Musk’s DOGE goons bullied their way onto the SSA’s databases and mistakenly decided that “countless” people listed as 120 years old and older were receiving benefits.
“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.””
What do you suggest, Inga?
Reddit: A spectacular looking murmuration filmed in Italy
Grok says:
"A claim on X suggested DOGE marked 4 million people as dead without verifying their status, but this lacks corroboration from credible sources and appears exaggerated or misleading. The cleanup focuses on correcting database inaccuracies, not stripping benefits from living recipients."
Calling Team Trump a bunch of clowns is unfair to actual clowns. 🤡
U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing ~ NYT
'The Trump administration replaced lawyers who had exposed flaws in its legal battle over New York City’s congestion pricing program.'
...Rennie Glasgow, a claims technical analyst with 15 years of experience at the agency who handles the most challenging cases at the Schenectady office.
THIS? Rennie Glasgow, totally unbiased and completely sincere hardworking federal employee with no agenda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilD_M-Gr7k
U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing ~ NYT
'The Trump administration replaced lawyers who had exposed flaws in its legal battle over New York City’s congestion pricing program.'
And if you believe it was an accident that the lawyers posted those- you're naive. Lawyers are a profession filled with people suffering from TDS - who will do anything and everything to undermine him.
Sort of like many Jan 6 lawyers who worked to railroad the people they were "representing".
"a claims technical analyst with 15 years of experience at the agency who handles the most challenging cases"
Determining whether or not someone is alive is "challenging"? I suppose it could be worse, though- they might be tasked with figuring out who's a woman and who isn't.
Mason G"
Grok says:
"A claim on X suggested DOGE marked 4 million people as dead without verifying their status, but this lacks corroboration from credible sources and appears exaggerated or misleading. The cleanup focuses on correcting database inaccuracies, not stripping benefits from living recipients."'
Surprise surprise.
P-Inga the russia collusion liar (and about 250 other debunked lies over a decade) is lying again.
I did not see that coming....LOL
"Reddit: A spectacular looking murmuration filmed in Italy".
If something looks spectacular, then it is spectacular.
Recall the Daily Beast was the first to publish the completely
(as in 100% with no exceptions) lie-filled hoax dossier that titillated P-Inga for years and years and years.
Recall also that P-Inga demanded Trump be arrested and imprisoned based on nothing more ghan a New Soviet Democratical Party hoax.
Good times, good times.
I heard fairly recently that the problem of living people being marked dead by SSA has been around for decades - the number that sticks in my mind is 4,000 such cases a month, but I can't back out up; it's just from memory. A cleaner and more functional database should help with the problem.
Suppose that Julian was hired as a federal prosecutor, and assigned the task of investigating the mafia, and bringing them to justice. And further suppose, that after 10 or 20 years of working hard at this job, Julian retired, quite wealthy, and was made a member of the mafia's governing council. Sounds legit. A public servant receives his well-earned reward, right?
Meanwhile, 1 in 30 American kids are autistic. And every single former head of the CDC sits on a Pharma board. And we anti-vaxxers are nutbag, tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists.
FYI, for those that may have missed it earlier today, Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich literally tried to blame Trump for obambi handing Putin the Crimea and biden's Auto-pen handing Putin eastern Ukraine!
LOL
It was a P-Inga level effort at rewriting history!
I mean, you might think, that if Julian spent his prime hammering the mafia, and wrecking their schemes, and sending them to prison, on a government employees salary, he would be quite generally hated by the mafia, and lucky to have a million or two in his IRAs. But that isn't how it works at CDC. You devote a couple decades to hammering Big Pharma -- just hammering them, and they don't hold it against you. "All in the game! Well-played!" they cry. No hard feelings, bygones be bygones. It's the Pharma code. And yeah, actually, Julian also has a lot more than two million in his retirement accounts. He likely made some good investments, early in his investment career. In fact, he may well have received very substantial royalty payments on vaccines he "regulated". 1 in 100 American kids will never be able to care for themselves, and will never marry, or have a job. Probably something in the water. Or bad parenting.
has agreed to an interview with Jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic.
Nope. Vicky from Pasadena insists it's with Joseph Goldberg.
‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.””
Good. Sounds like a lot of fraud was eliminated, and those who got caught up in it can get it rectified.
Why it's almost as if NOBODY EVER BEFORE had to show up to a government office to straighten out an issue.
This is the first time EVER!!!!!!!
A lot of these kids don't exactly recognize that they are damaged. That requires a degree of awareness that they don't have. I can tell when I wake up with a hangover, and recognize that I am suffering the inevitable consequences of my self-indulgence. But when you are so damaged that others have fastened a foam-lined helmet to your head so that you can't bash your brains out on the walls, you may well see your situation in terms of "Why must these people stymie my entirely reasonable efforts to address the problems that are tormenting me?". You don't have any concept of a "normal" from which your situation has unaccountably departed.
Their parents, of course, are wracked with guilt and sorrow, and the trained personnel who deal with them all day (that helmet comes off easier than you might think) are exhausted and stunned by the emotional effort needed to refrain from getting angry at kids who can't see reason, and insist upon harming themselves.
But yeah, RFK Jr. is a psycho nutbag paranoid for thinking we should try to figure out why this phenomenon, which was unknown fifty years ago, is now commonplace. Suck it up, Buttercup! Get over it! Shit happens.
"Why it's almost as if NOBODY EVER BEFORE had to show up to a government office to straighten out an issue."
To be fair, you're talking to someone who almost certainly believes that having to show up at a polling place to vote is an insurmountable burden.
April 25, 2025
IT’S NOT A RELIGION. IT’S AN INSANE CULT: A Deplorable Deplores the Rise of Sectarian Violence in the U.S.
https://everymancommentary.substack.com/p/a-deplorable-deplores-the-rise-of?
THIS^^^^^
BUTTTT ELON!!!!
"It gives out roughly $1.5 billion a year, and it spends its U.S. budget not only on liberal causes but also on some of the big dark-money nonprofits aligned with the Democratic Party, including America Votes, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the pro-Harris spending group Future Forward USA Action. Soros Fund Management, which manages OSF’s endowment, is the largest investor in the podcast network Crooked Media, which broadcasts Pod Save America. Then there are the Soroses’ voluminous campaign contributions to Democrats, rivaled only by those from billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Reid Hoffman."
https://archive.is/BW9Xq
Rennie Glasgow is a Scottish AF name. You would think if you hire a Scotsman, he'd naturally want to keep your money from being wasted.
JSM
Why is Trump going to the Pope's funeral? Send JD, that's his job.
Big Mike said...
What I have read. 16,000 homes “and other structures” in LA were destroyed in last winter’s wildfire.
Check out this group of Amish in North Carolina.
https://greatneeds.org/projects/
What? Are you afraid of sharks?
FAFO
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-search-goes-on-for-missing-swimmer-experts-say-people-shouldnt-have-teased-sharks/
Trump Organization Says It Intends to Fire Lawyer Working for Harvard ~ WSJ
The Trump Organization had an ethics advisor?
I thought “Ethic problems” were the core of their business model 🤣
Hired to develop policies to prevent conflicts of interest with the President.
Fired on the orders of the President.
Another round of bananas for all concerned.
Drago -- dress your head wound! 🤕
And have a banana 🤡
Ralph doesn't understand how what Trump does is why he is the comeback kid. He's going to try and get more lunch bucket Catholic voters and maybe influence the selection of the new brand Pope. Plus he gets to Lourde over all the Western world leaders his team is currently negotiating with. I'm sure there's a thousand other benefits for this trip.
Maybe try getting outside of your feelings, Ralph
You have to break some eggs if you want to make an omelette
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed
You're going to feel a slight pinch
Who could possibly save us from all the conflagration chaos and uncertainty?
J.D. Vance, an atheist, until he wants to be Vice President so then he becomes a devout Catholic.
Just about sums up his religion.
Pope Francis prioritized Mercy, Forgiveness and Compassion over Dogma or Judgementalism.
That's not being Liberal, that's the fundamental message of Christianity.
If anyone is in doubt read the sermon on the mount.
All this talk about 'traditional' Christian values. What they mean is forget the teachings of Christ and go back to the old testament.
The, 'Take Christ out of Christianity ' movement.
US Supreme Court Clears the Way for Ohio to Change Its Constitution (Newsweek)
"The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for an Ohio constitutional amendment to end qualified immunity to appear on voters' ballots in a new ruling this week.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, had sought to block the amendment from appearing on ballots in 2024 due to concerns about whether the language fairly portrayed the issue, but a majority of the court's justices decided that the amendment petition could move forward this week.
The court's bipartisan ruling means Ohio voters will now have the ability to move to get the amendment on ballots. If it makes it to ballots and eventually passes, the change could have key implications for police officers and public officials who are currently shielded by qualified immunity.
...
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a stay temporarily imposed by Justice Brett Kavanaugh after Yost sought emergency relief on the amendment. Kavanaugh, along with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented. The majority didn't provide any explanation for why they vacated the stay.
The amendment was intended to appear on the 2024 ballot in Ohio but has faced legal challenges. While petitioners received the 1,000 signatures needed for certification, Yost rejected the amendment proposal because he did not believe it passed the truthful and fair standard. Yost denied them eight separate times over language issues, reported The Columbus Dispatch.
In March, Judge James Graham sided with the voters who are behind the amendment, prompting Yost to appeal to the Supreme Court."
Meanwhile, in New Mexico ( not really new, not really Mexico)...
New Mexico Supreme Court Bans Former Judge From Exercising Judicial Authority
"The New Mexico Supreme Court on Tuesday barred a former judge from exercising judicial authority in the state in the future amid reports and court papers stating that an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member was arrested living in a building behind his home on his property.
On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court ruled that the former Dona County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, who submitted a letter of resignation last month, “shall never again hold, become a candidate for, run for, or stand for election to any New Mexico judicial office in the future.”
It also said that he can never serve or be appointed to a pro tempore position “for any New Mexico judicial office in the future,” which entails positions including municipal, probate, metropolitan, magistrate, district court, appeals court, or Supreme Court judgeships.
“Respondent shall never again hold or exercise any judicial authority in the State of New Mexico,” which also includes “officiating at weddings,” said the court order, which also vacated an oral hearing that was scheduled for Thursday.
Cano, a registered Democrat, had served in the Dona Ana County Magistrate Court in Las Cruces, the second-most populous city in the state and located 40 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border. A resignation letter uploaded online, dated March 3, said that his last day on the bench was March 21.
...
Court papers filed by federal prosecutors earlier in April, which sought to block the release of Venezuelan illegal immigrant and accused Tren de Aragua member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, included the names Joel and Nancy Cano and said the suspect was living in their Las Cruces home at the time of the arrest. However, the papers did not provide an age, occupation, or other details about the Canos.
The Epoch Times could not independently verify whether immigration officials arrested Ortega-Lopez at the former judge’s home. Two email accounts that appear to be associated with Cano did not return a request for comment as of Thursday morning.
According to prosecutors, Ortega-Lopez and several others who were detained “were residing at an apartment in El Paso when he eventually met Nancy Cano after getting a job in Las Cruces to install a glass door for her.” Ortega-Lopez then “continued to do a few jobs for Nancy Cano, and after being evicted from the apartment in April, 2024, Nancy Cano offered her ‘casita’ in the back of the residence she shared with her husband Joel Cano,” the court papers added."
More at the link.
@BUMBLE BEE, I’ve been aware of their efforts for a while now. When they first started building shelters for the North Carolinians, the state government made them tear the structures down because they failed to meet code. Consequently the people who’d lost their homes were forced to survive a cold winter in tents.
Yes, the governor of North Carolina (then and still is) is a Democrat. Did you need to ask?
Here is what people with any common sense see. ANALOGY Canada decides to invade one of the border countries lets say Greenland or France etc(just for example) WAR kills bunches of people like all wars do. So Canada says well in order to stop the fighting we'll agree to just keep what land we invaded, we will not allow invaded countries any solace or help from other organizations(NATO for example if that was available) and their only Concession is "we wont take all the land and we'll stop the invasion we started! Brilliant plan.. WHO THE FUK would agree with that? enters trump and Putin..Its the same deal Russia gets all Ukraine gets to give up land taken in invasion, cant join NATO and who the fuk trusts Putin in first place.? Trump thinks this scenario is great for peace and his attainment of the al obsession with the NOBEL peace prize because you know OBAMA got one! Righties swallow this hook line and sinker and say YEAH great deal great concessions Russias making stop the war they started and ont join a helping group to see this bullshit dont happen again without consequences. The over in 24 hours babble from the king of the US had all his followers bamboozled . Beautiful Beacoup Dinky Dau Him love you long time!
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.”
The senility is getting worse and worse.
Hilarious. Sounds like Elon has been passing his ketamine around in the Oval Office.
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