Chris Hayes brings us the sorry tale of the “flatly authoritarian” detention of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk (and the way Hayes describes this is spot-on, sadly...the latest fresh outrage from our ruling cabal of human miseries - another important development on this is here)...call me a pointy-headed lib I guess, but I seem to recall reading about “innocent until proven guilty” as a principle of jurisprudence, not binding someone in zip ties and sending them off to detention about two thousand miles away without being formally charged...of course, leave it to our ruling Trumpist thugs to pretty much take that principle and wipe their metaphorical butts with it I know...
...and Farron Cousins lets us know that DHS head Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem sez her agency will eliminate FEMA as ordered by her boss...yes, this indeed will disproportionately hurt red states, though it will impact all of us to one degree or another...great point by Cousins that any non-FEMA federal dollars for disaster relief will now be left in the hands of Repugs in states who just might end up saying “Oh, our bad...that money is suddenly gone, used for budget shortfalls because we passed MORE STINKING TAX CUTS!”...sorry to hear about Cousins’s plight on the flood insurance issue...
Update: And I definitely would also say that Noem's sense of entitlement is on display here.
...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about prices soaring and markets plunging under the Gropenfuhrer...yep, these immigration purges along with Elmo’s workforce firings and those beyond-awful tariffs are pretty much beating the hell out of our economy under Yambo, with plummeting consumer confidence...and we know Project 2025 ridiculously called for firing 50K federal workers, though apparently the number may be closer ultimately to 200K...and I can tell how effective Jasmine Crockett is at speaking truth to stoo-pid because she keeps getting under the skin of the wingnuts...this is a good report from Shuster IMO, but I wish he would get rid of that ridiculous clip of Jonah Goldberg saying that USAID doesn’t “touch” people, or whatever that idiocy is (one response is here)...
...and David Pakman asks who the hell is running the White House, given the very latest pratfall with this bunch, and that would be #47 blaming “the Signal app” for the stupefying, dangerous incompetence of Pete Hegseth including Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on the thread revealing the plans of the Houthi air strike...and yeah, it does indeed get worse, with Our Treasonous Orange Pustule somehow not knowing about 4 American servicemen who died in Lithuania (typical for the *preznit who was also responsible for this)...
...and as long as we’re talking about our SecDef and former Fix Noise talking head, Jesse Dollemore lets us know about Dem U.S. Senator (and former Iraq War helicopter pilot, who pretty much lost the use of her legs in a crash) Tammy Duckworth going on Fix Noise and explaining calmly and logically why Pete Hegseth is indeed a “f*cking liar”...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 3/29/13...with Elmo doing his best to wreck Social Security (laying off staff, making those claiming benefits do so online or in person), it should be noted that the wingnuts have been going after this entitlement for decades (and once again, it’s an “entitlement” that people are entitled to BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN PAYING INTO IT FOR ALL OF OUR WORKING LIVES!), and in this clip with the late, great Ed Schultz, Bernie Sanders discusses “chained CPI,” which was an idea floated by Repugs and entertained by former President Obama as a way to measure and potentially adjust Social Security benefits as opposed to doing so based on inflation...ultimately, this was another trick to reduce the deficit at the expense of everyone except the rich (and yes, it involved cuts to Medicare/Social Security ultimately), since, as we know, deficit reduction is only talked about when a Democrat is in the White House and/or it involves reduced funding for an entitlement...
...and turning to something that I’ll admit is “low-hanging fruit” by comparison, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report inform us of Trump “Jesus Grifter” Paula White offering a $1K “deal with God,” with Sam giving this nonsense the treatment it deserves, trying to launch a “bidding war” of sorts (totally tongue-in-cheek, of course)...and this is a minor gripe I realize, but why the $#@! do I have to see the guy playing the piano in the White clip??...
...and happy belated 75th birthday to Tony Banks of Genesis.
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