Higgledy Piggledy 🟧 🦘

I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

BREAKING:

A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc

Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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Sadly, important and consequential reporting gets lost in the general chaos of US shutdowns and Trump’s attention grabbing Truth Social postings.

Is this the most underreported and alarming US news story of the week❓
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.

Brain worms 🪱

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

Print in black and white featuring a tea cup refected on a surface next to a saucer with a teaspoon resting on it

'Early morning' linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt #Sunday

As the US mass deports, the world's poorest nation stands to suffer An expansion of the Trump administration's deportations to Africa, where impoverished and conflict-ridden states are hosting third-country migrants, may be a detriment to the most disadvantaged.

The world’s richest nation deports human beings to the world’s poorest nations.

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Fighting for the right to starve wasn’t on my 2025 American politics bingo card.

Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.

NEW: Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month

DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.

Now at Law Dork:

US grants Hungary one-year exception from sanctions over Russian oil and gas Viktor Orbán had a friendly meeting with Donald Trump on Friday to press his case for a reprieve

Of course the exemption was granted to Orbán. Was there any doubt?
Old mates and all that ‘Great Gatsby’ Jazz.

US grants Hungary one-year exception from sanctions over Russian oil and gas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Handy for random, unaccompanied lost people wandering around the White House I guess.
Maybe a freestanding, plastic, gold sign on the veranda will soon accompany it: ‘Entrance’.

What a fabulous and glorious unexpected greeting. They really are such majestic birds. 😍😍😍

😱 take care Sam.

I’m not sure about the picture being worth 1000 words, I have precisely zero words. Utterly speechless.

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

Painting of a transparent round teapot half full of reddish brown tea, resting on top of a pile of books with two further piles of books either side

'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

Thank you for sharing Tibor. I totally understand your decision today. Precious treasures are sacred.

What a remarkable find 😍

Omg lol 😂
Imagine sitting on the jury in this case and trying to keep a straight face.

Here we go 👉

I threw the sandwich, but I did not throw the condiments
I threw the sandwich, but I didn't throw the condiments

All around Washington D.C.
They're trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the spilling of some mayonnaise
For wasting all the dijon, but I say

Remember record stores?

When music wasn’t in the cloud. #Truth 😎

Ouch

Facts don’t lie. The elephant in the room is indeed US wages and the lack of workers rights and protections for low wage earners.

Not as much coverage over here in the west in recent years. Maybe it’s still a thing in racing circles but for most it’s just a normal, average working day.

Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.