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I think we should loudly, publicly start planning the trials for Trump et al for When This Is All Over. Some NGO should pay lawyers to start tracking crimes, preparing legal theories, crafting enabling legislation, etc. It should be the legal equivalent of constructing a gallows in the town square.

If you're in c-ville, am I hearing shots? Fireworks? Saturday about 7:20

Still no weather here, but the wind is picking up. It feels like it's really trying to be another season out there.

I try to do this myself. It's a lifelong process, I think.

That's a really good point. I think it's healthier to have a positive attitude, but it can lead to getting hurt sometimes.

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

I was conned badly once long ago, & I still don't like to talk about it because it necessarily reveals me as a fool.

Yep.

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Unfortunately these people are real & they don't care for others much because they figure we're all getting sorted out very soon & it's already been decided. They're sure they're going to Heaven.

He was enthusiastic about "taking America back," presumably from immigrants, or Black people, or wokeness or similar.
From the camera angle, I'd say that's a very large vehicle.
The leopards are enjoying his face.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.

Jan 6ther Andrew Paul Johnson was molesting a child before he was imprisoned in 2024.

Trump pardoned him - and he immediately went back to molesting that child, AND that child’s friend.

Then he tried to buy their silence by claiming he’d give them some of the millions in restitution he expected.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Also Richard Spencer & Jason Kessler

inshallah

Cover of UVA alumni magazine showing incoming president Scott Beardsley with the following text: "From Pavilion I to Carr's Hill / A short trip but a complicated path for UVA's 10th president"

And then this is in my mailbox. Circumlocution worthy of the Pitchbot.

Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports.

Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.

Mission accomplished

🙏

This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome.” apnews.com/article/suic...

HAGUE
NOW

Wow I don't remember this one! This is great. I love Tim Meadows.

Thank you for mentioning that, I was about to look for an obituary!

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Awesome database published by my @propublica.org colleagues where you can look up financial disclosures of over 1,500 of Trump's appointees. #NICAR26 data nerds will appreciate this one! projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

I'm lying in bed because I'm really not well but I can hear what sounds like a tree being taken down & chipped nearby. Ordinarily I'd go say goodbye, but I'm just not up to it, so I'll just say it from bed & hope the tree knows.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Thank you!