Scrobaliscious

If allowed only one:

Cuisine: Mexican
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Music genre: Grunge
TV show: Breaking Bad
Holiday Resort : No resorts for me
Season: Autumn
City: Santa Cruz
Sport: Fishing
Book of the Bible: Closed
Movie: Amelie

It might protect Trump but it wouldn't protect anyone under him.

I love your self portraits.

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1 Indeed, in the past few days, the President has repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed. These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention. The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S. military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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I really like this idea!

The smell of dried pine needles on a warm day

a man wearing a red shirt and goggles looks angry ALT: a man wearing a red shirt and goggles looks angry

I was wearing eye protection.

It was a large pie about the size of a small pie

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

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Your moon hit my eye

Did any single journalist reply "That's not true. Not any of it"??
Or did they just all shrug?

So I just finished the last of my two cups of coffee.
The last sip brought something solid into my mouth.
Apparently there was a dead fly stuck to the bottom the entire time, who became unstuck sometime during the morning.

Fungi!

That’s crazy!
I know next to nothing about the Marines. Do they still have to qualify at 1000 yards?

Did they have to qualify at 1000 yards? Using iron sights?

Bright orange leaves in the canopy of a forest in MN.

Tress are on fire in my woods

All Sausage on the Western Front

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

You might have missed this good news from Team Science™ who have been trying to help the domestic honeybee survive, which will help *us* survive.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Do I have WWI aviation experts among my followers? Trying to ID this plane

Gorgeous!

Spurious Correlations Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

This seems topical after the latest public health announcement.
www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

I'm not a lawyer, but I think proving RFK jr and the Trump admin acted with actual malice in a defamation case would be hard. They're a bunch of fucking morons who get high off their own farts. They could believe what they're saying is true.

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

I was just thinking about getting one of these! I've been reading about the Normandy invasions and all the AVREs used.
Fantastic build, sir.