Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman

Rubio is Trump's diplomatic beard.™

Literal lol.

And I recognized that the first one was old, as it was before they swapped in the guy falling off the ski jump for "the agony of defeat."

YouTube video by David Gideon Classic TV Theme: ABC's Wide World of Sports

Burned into my adolescent brain: "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat!" Also: Jim McKay. That is all.
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"all the ways"? We shall see. 🛋️

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The absurd hyperlocal drama I am in invested in: an LA bagel truck chain called (help) Yeastie Boys did a collaboration with the New York Post’s new California branch. Painted trucks red, handed out mock papers. You’re never gonna believe this but bagel truck patrons aren’t Murdoch fans, turns out

House Practice Manual (2024) § 24. In General; Vote Changes [snip] When a vote is being taken by electronic device, a Member is permitted to change such vote by reinserting the voting card in a voting station during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute vote or by the Clerk’s announcement in the well after the Chair has asked for changes. 114-2, May 19, 2016, p 6772. During five-minute votes or two-minute votes, a Member is permitted to change a vote at the voting stations at any time. Following the expiration of the minimum time for voting by electronic device and the closing of electronic voting stations, but before the Speaker’s announcement of the result, any Member may either change a vote or cast an initial vote in the well by use of a ballot card.

TODAY'S QUESTION: Why do House Republicans – vociferous proponents of the so-called "SAVE [America] Act" – vote by electronic device when they could vote by the much more secure method of paper ballots?* 🤯

(* – aka, "ballot card")
#HRules

I watched it as a kid... I watched everything on ABC's Wide World of Sports, including the annual arm wrestling championships from Petaluma, California. 😳

This is so niche. 😉👍🏻

Mics Caught Canada’s Rachel Homan Denying Cheating Amid Olympic Curling Controversy Homan was penalized for double touching the stone in Canada’s loss to Switzerland on Saturday.

Congrats to those who had "Olympic curling controversy" on their BINGO cards!

Oh, Canada.

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Package of corn burgers.

New plank fish just dropped.

22 USC 7423, subsections (a) to (g) of the "American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002" - searchable text is here: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title22-section7423&num=0&saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy1wcmVsaW0tdGl0bGUyMi1zZWN0aW9uNzQyMQ%3D%3D%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7Cprelim

22 USC 7422, subsection (c), of the "American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002" - waiver authority - searchable text is here: uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:22 section:7422 edition:prelim) OR (granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7422)&f=treesort&edition=prelim&num=0&jumpTo=true

DATA: Statutory limitations and statutory presidential waiver authority from the 2022 "American Servicemembers' Protection Act", 22 USC 7422 & 7423.

#ICC #Trump
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It's meaningless. Rubio is Trump's diplomacy beard.

Guy on the left: "You got me out of bed for this?"

"devolve" – a word Trump never actually uses.

@martinanav.bsky.social

Other than impeachment and conviction, any idea on what (if anything) would be a remedy for that?

Objections in the early 2000s to political activity by *former* officers seem remote and almost quaint. But there's a pretty direct line between references to “my generals,” and “my military,” to "my voters."

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C) The next morning, Sunday, the president, seen live on the White House website, speaking from the Oval Office, tells America what he has done, stating (among other things) that he did it pursuant to the authority granted him by Article II of the Constitution.

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2029 – A new US president.
HYPOTHETICAL:
A) October – At The Hague a warrant is issued for Trump's arrest to be tried for war crimes.
B) Two weeks later, late on a Sat, w/o notice, the president has Trump taken into custody, flown to The Hague, turned over to the International Criminal Court.

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A portion of Trump's Truth Social post: "... our dinner, he was very respectful about our meeting - But with everything I have done in bringing our Country back from 'OBLIVION,' why wouldn't he be? But then I noticed his show started to devolve into the same old story - Very boring, ANTI TRUMP, no mention of the PERFECT Border, Lowest

As if Trump ever uses the word "devolve".

This is a bizarre Britishism, the person is not meaning to be obscene athough they are meaning to be rude and annoying

2026.02.13--Smith-Mandamus--Second-Mandamus-Petition-FINAL PDFA

JUST IN: Knight 1st Amend. Institute & American Oversight ask 11th Circuit to force Judge Aileen Cannon (Trump) to release Vol. II of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report AND to block her from ordering it destroyed as Trump's co-defendants have asked. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

A good read. Facebook account owner gets the ACLU to push back against a DHS subpoena and... DHS folds.*

(* – past performance may not be indicative of future results)

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants

story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social

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A dear friend of mine passed today from a sudden, hospital-acquired infection. I’ll have more to say about her, but among many other things she was a lifelong birdwatcher. In honor of her and in lieu of #FridayNightZillow, asking for pics of favorite birds you’ve seen. I’ll start

Big Dick Toilet Salesman, thinking about firing the person who thought he should be on a panel with AOC.

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Clips from Hinds' Precedents of the House, re tie votes, specifically re tie votes on appeals of rulings of the chair. From Feb 1, 1840, that a tie vote would sustain the ruling (section 4569); from March 4, 1898, that a tie vote apparently would not sustain the ruling (section 5239).

Clips from Hinds' Precedents of the House, re tie votes, specifically re tie votes on appeals of rulings of the chair. From May 31, 1790, that a tie vote apparently would sustain the ruling (section 6956); from May 12, 1852, that a tie vote would not sustain the ruling (section 6957). The chair said, "The burden of getting a majority is with the affirmative."

In the Senate, a tie vote loses.
In the House, a tie vote also loses, UNLESS it's on an appeal of a ruling of the chair, in which case the precedents say it wins… sometimes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

NB: When a ruling is appealed, the vote is on this question – "Shall the decision of the Chair stand?"

#HRules #SRules