Meggles and Joy

As the administration continues to play politics, many of our neighbors are experiencing great need. If you are in a position to do so, please consider donating to your local food bank. I give to the Community Food Bank of Southern AZ which, like many similar groups, is now badly overstretched.

Obscene.

Spokane City Council keeps staff and the public alike in the dark at budget meetings – RANGE Media ‘I shouldn't have to take the day off in order to know what my government is doing’

If your boss was holding a public meeting about whether you should be laid off, would you want to know? Last week, Spokane City Council staffers weren’t given the option after they were kicked out of an unrecorded public meeting where their employment was discussed. Read the story now:

Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hung Them. This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...

Trump called for members of Congress to be hung for stating that members of the military & the intelligence community shouldn’t follow illegal orders. Read on for details & a discussion of why it’s essential we discuss this, not just push it aside as “politics.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Conversion therapy is quietly rebranding — and targeting trans youths As political attacks on gender-affirming care escalate, parents and experts fear a resurgence of discredited “therapies” that seek to change transgender children’s identities.

Good article. We have reported about "Gender Exploratory Therapy" at EITM for years now - it's a subversive practice akin to "crisis pregnancy centers" that seeks to delay transition until the person gives up on being trans - they will NEVER let the trans teen transition.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!

The Grift Bubble A Political Theory of American Collapse

Reading Dr. Timothy Snyder’s thoughts is always a good use of time.

Here you go:

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says 'Conditions at Camp East Montana are dangerous and inhumane,' Veronica Escobar wrote in a letter.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mig...

Old me in stark B&W

You’re awesome!

Brilliant! Thanks, I needed this!

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Some outstanding journalism well worth a few minutes of reading time.

We continue losing daylight for 37 days. 🙏

NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.

From Christopher Hale:

“Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between the pope and the trans community.”

Eww

Leave Google in the dust. They censor your searches, enable pedophiles and steal your data. Please stop using Google. There are plenty of other alternatives. Yes, it sucks having to change things. It’s inconvenient and takes some time. They count on you being too lazy to take them down.

A “national emergency” advertising campaign is propaganda.

Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With the shutdown over, Team Trump was back in action! Looking for more ways to suppress the Epstein Files.

The victims deserve justice, and the public deserves the truth.

#ReleaseTheFiles #waitadamnminute

🎥 @elm100_bk

Donald J. Trump is Pizzagate,
Wayfair, the swamp, and part of
the world wide sex trafficking cabal. Look, no further MAGA. The monster you've been looking for has been right in front of you this entire time. Trump is the Epstein files.

Platkin: They didn’t go to the mat to make sure people could eat. They didn’t go to the mat to make sure people could afford their health care. But they sure as hell made sure they could make hundreds of thousands of dollars on our backs based on some bogus theory of how they were harmed.

I mean, fuck the rest of us Feds who showed up to work every day without pay, apparently🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

But Judge Currie said that was not possible because Bondi "couldn't have" reviewed all of those materials. The judge revealed during the hearing that there is a portion of the transcript of Halligan's presentation to the grand jury -- from 4:28 p.m. on the day of the indictment until the indictment was returned -- that is missing. It "appears to me," the judge said, that there was "no court reporter present," and if there was, "she didn't transcribe that portion." "How does the AG say she has reviewed" the grand jury material "when they didn't exist?" the judge asked.

Holy shit: Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer has FAR MORE than an 18-minute gap.

That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.

abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...

He'd sell those kids to the highest bidder