Bayou Grrrl

I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.

Seth gets it

🔥 “You’re on the wrong side of history. You should be standing here with us… you took an oath to the constitution, not the fascists in the White House— he’s laughing at you… You’re tough behind your masks & fatigues, but how do you feel on the inside?” 🇺🇸

The Tax Elon Solution and Other Actual Reporting Not Included in the Frenzy - emptywheel If you need a list of ways that Trump could use the power of the presidency to retaliate against Elon Musk, you're better off reading Elizabeth Warren's list of 130 ways Elon exploited his access than...

The Tax Elon Solution and Other Actual Reporting Not Included in the Frenzy

www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/t...

Every sane person in the world is noticing the same thing about Trump. This motherfucker is having a serious mental collapse and nobody is saying anything. 😳👇

Texas Republicans torched the wall between church and state—ripping up the Constitution to force the Ten Commandments into every public school classroom.

This isn’t faith. It’s authoritarianism dressed as religion.

Schools aren’t pulpits. And fascism is on the march.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’ He said when he tried to record the incident, the agents knocked his phone out of his hand.

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers

“Six years ago, I found myself face to face with a white farmer preparing for the government to take his land.

This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think.

The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.

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On behalf of all the dead and injured women, go fuck yourself.

Texas Targets Latino Officials in Voting Crackdown, Setting up a Climate of Intimidation Read more here.

NEW: Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against alleged voter fraud has led to the criminal prosecution of six Democratic officials, all Latino, in Frio County, Texas. Civil rights groups say the charges are politically motivated and aim to suppress Latino civic participation.

Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

This gentleman nails what everyone else is missing regarding Trump's ability to suspend habeus corpus. Although I'm sure it won't stop the fascist motherfucker from trying emulate the Nazis' Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933, Trump doesn't have the power to do shit. 😳👇

"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues at the “Folk and Jazz Roundtable” at the Music Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951.

📸 Clemens Kalischer

#johnleehooker

America is gonna lose their minds

YouTube video by The Bulwark We’re Staring Down A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS! (w/ Bill Kristol)

“We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocks our judicial system from inside the Oval Office.” @timmiller.bsky.social and I are depressed, alarmed, angry. Where is the resistance?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSh...

happy bday Irish poet Seamus Heaney, b.1939.

"History says, don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme."

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

T/L cleanser: rRunited and it feels so good 🎶 bsky.app/profile/good...

Gen. Timothy Haugh Ousted as Head of NSA and Cyber Command No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, but the far-right activist Laura Loomer had called for his ouster in a meeting with President Trump, an official said.

Imagine you’re Timothy Haugh, a decorated general, confirmed unanimously by the Senate to head the NSA. And while you’re traveling abroad, you find out the President just fired you on the advice of a 9/11 truther whose bigotry once got her banned by Uber.

Trump is on the golf course today in FL.