Mike Figueredo tells us about the Schimel/Musk/Trump loss in Wisconsin to Judge Susan Crawford...and even by the Roberts-esque standard of Citizens United corruption, what Musk ended up setting on fire here is a truly mind-blowing sum...and we have more allegedly courageous “reporting” from Tiger Beat On The Potomac deciding to publish anonymous quotes from Repugs who want King Elon to fail; get these cowards on the record so we know who the f*ck they are!...they could care less about anything approximating democracy, but they only want their party to not get blitzed at the ballot box next year....and indeed, Elise Stefanik’s UN nomination was withdrawn because the Repug in the special election for her seat was expected to lose...and while it’s also a drag that the two Dems in Flori-DUUUH! lost, the story there is indeed the margin of victory for Repugs in 2 solid R districts, which was cut in half from just a couple of months ago (NSFW/H)...
...and David Pakman gives us more evidence of White House spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt doing probably the only thing she can do competently, and that’s propagandizing and talking down to her audience...one example is a Maryland man who had protected legal status who was illegally deported anyway, and ICE already acknowledged that it was a mistake (but it was a “clerical” error? What an utterly shameless, irredeemable harpie!) And of course, there’s still MORE lying BS about tariffs, and aren’t you comforted that the internal investigation into the Signal mess was resolved to the satisfaction of Our Ochre Abomination without releasing any info to the public? (all of this makes me recall this post FWIW, and I honestly don’t know if Leavitt is worse than Kayleigh McEnany...both are utterly awful for similar reasons)...
...and when it comes to assh*le Republicans (redundant?), I need to include U.S. Senator Jim Banks of Indiana...I guess I really need to dust off the memory banks to find the phrase “compassionate conservatism” somewhere...here, Banks tells an HHS worker caught up in King Elon’s DOGE purge that he “probably deserved” to lose his job...yes, this is awful, but somebody elects clowns like Banks, people...an utter pox on the numbskulls who put Banks in this position.
Want more lowlights from Banks? OK...
...and with all of this in mind, Nicolle Wallace highlights Banks’ garbage in the following clip...also, HHS Secretary Bobby Brainworms decided to lay off 10,000 workers at the CDC, FDA, and the NIH, referring to a “brain drain” of scientists and researchers, letting go of people who just want to move this country forward with scientific research and doing their best to protect our health (Basil Smikle, Everett Kelley and Mini Timmaraju provide analysis)...As noted here, Banks was a big 2020 election denier and said the January 6th panel was created to “malign conservatives,” which, if true, is because they deserved it.
Also, Banks sent a letter to the Department of the Interior saying that he was a member of the 1/6 committee, even though he wasn’t of course (here).
Additionally, Banks blew off a debate invitation during last year’s U.S. Senate campaign as noted here (taking a page from Bri-Fi’s sorry book, as it were).
A veritable smorgasbord of right-wing BS from Banks is here.
More idiocy from Banks is here.
...and speaking of attacks on government workers, this clip from More Perfect Union tells us about a TSA screener warning of chaos due to the recent illegal move from this utterly lawless administration, and that is for the DHS to tear up the union contract for TSA workers (quite correctly called “PATCO on steroids” by the flight attendant rep, harking back to the legendary awful move by The Sainted Ronnie R)...I honestly cannot imagine why someone who is, after all, a government worker, would decide to vote for Bronzer Beelzebub, but this man working for the TSA bemoans the “chaos” (to which I ask, what the f*ck did you expect? And sorry if I’m being mean because I’m sure this man cares a lot about making people safe)...and yes, once more, this ties into the garbage privatization model of Project 2025...
...and Tennessee Brando discusses Dem U.S. Senator Cory Booker breaking the longest filibuster record previously set by Strom Thurmond in defense of segregation as Booker notes...I guess I’m just a bad Z-list blogger because I didn’t pay attention to what Booker was saying, but mad props to him for killing it as he did...and nice work by Brando to call out the wingnutosphere and all the “bro podcasters” out there (slightly NSFW/H)...
...and on this day in 1980, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders was arrested for an altercation in a bar and reportedly kicked out the rear window of the police cruiser that carted her away...she was released and performed the next night – what a badass (and the band probably included this tune in the set).
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