Tween The Ditches

Oxford, Mississippi checking in! How am I still here? Thought BlueSky was shut down in this here cesspool of conservatism.

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

Bro-caster is a dem.

Trump Was Furious With Gabbard’s Unauthorized Video Trashing ‘Warmongers’ Tensions has reportedly been building between the president and his spy chief.

Trump was reportedly livid after his director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted an unauthorized video on social media last week warning that “warmongers” had brought the world “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.”

Blaming the poor while daddy-made millionaires sneak off with the welfare Republicans want to stop subsidizing Americans who benefit from government-funded health programs. But by far the greatest American subsidies go to the millionaires, the 10% of Americans who own 93 percent of the stock market.That's in part because of the so-called tax expenditures, which include mo...

Republicans want to stop subsidizing Americans who benefit from government-funded health programs.

LIVE BLOG: SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument in Louisiana Redistricting Case That Could Gut the VRA Read more here.

TODAY is a SCOTUS opinion day!
We're watching for a Louisiana redistricting decision, a ruling on nationwide injunctions and a decision on the federal government’s request to proceed with mass layoffs.

Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon predicts The estimate came during a budget hearing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the president is enforcing “law and order.”

The same president who wants to cut $800B from Medicaid and strip health care from 16 million Americans to fund tax cuts for billionaires...is spending $134M to send troops to CA and $45M on his birthday parade in DC.

Burning taxpayer dollars to play king. Un-American.

YouTube video by Allan Lichtman The Most Chilling Trump Executive Order Yet?!? [Martial Law Threat]

This video is from May.
Regarding protecting the US democracy you might want to watch this video.
Historian Professor Lichtman talks about a executive order that Trump signed in the start of May.
He already have authorized Hegseth. Trump has been waiting for this.

youtu.be/Muqad4OI3Y8?...

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

CNBC's @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social makes a rare and bold (and likely spot-on) observation about the real potential that Trump, his administration and/or elected officials participated in insider trading just prior to Trump's disastrous "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement. #CORRUPTION

Elon Musk and his crooked campaign tactics are getting crushed in Wisconsin.

Is this the new prosperity gospel?

Republican Operative Nicholas Jacobs Locks Twitter After Elon Musk Check Controversy Jacobs received a $1M check from Musk at a rally in support of Brad Schimel

Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans.

meidasnews.com/news/republi...

Or hang it in a Florida orange plantation’s business office.

If you think Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race doesn’t affect you just because you don’t live there—think again. If Musk pulls this off, it’s one step closer to him buying an election near you.

Got friends, family, or even followers in Wisconsin? Tell them to get out and vote the right way. 📢

A group of modern Orthodox Jews is hosting a conference critical of Israel (RNS) — Orthodox Judaism, both in the United States and Israel, has typically espoused a right-wing political orientation and unconditional support for Israel. These Jews beg to differ.

Orthodox Judaism, both in the United States and Israel, has typically espoused a right-wing political orientation that includes unconditional support for Israel. This upcoming conference is a noteworthy turn.

I ain’t no expert, but cannot think of a good reason to not just “have the benefits of Greenland” via NATO. How do Trump benefit? How does Russia benefit? “Autocracy Inc.” comes to mind.

Pathetic. Is he trying to put daylight between himself and Dear Leader?

JD Vance: “The president said we have to have Greenland…We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.”

Signs of a conscience?🤔

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement The “Dark Enlightenment” movement and Curtis Yarvin have curried favor with tech executives in recent years, writes Ed Simon.

The very dark agenda of tech billionaires and members of their movement.

Have any of these people been convicted of crimes? This is dystopian.

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

Download File: 2025-03-25_Testimony_Franks | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

My written testimony for yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called "censorship industrial complex," which is more detailed than my opening statement, can be downloaded here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/202...

If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?

Greenland Has Spoken: What Trump Doesn’t Get About Danish Leaders Greenlanders have voted. And their message is clear: Trump can keep his billions to himself. But how come Trump's promises don't work in Greenland?

Reminder that Greenland just had an election, and the most anti-American party won

www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

There has been reporting on Big Balls' ties to criminal hackers. Reuters reports on a slightly different (or related) group from past reports.

www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

The breadth of these executive orders makes me wonder if Republicans (or GOP leaning law firms, conservative colleges, GOP states with certain voting laws) can't imagine a future in which Dems regain the White House and just do their version of this stuff. Or maybe they assume no more elections?

Thanks!