I’m catching up with 99% Invisible’s programs on Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” which I read in the late ‘80s. I’m reminded once again of the pettiness of even intelligent, capable individuals.
Unfortunately, members of tcf’s administration are neither intelligent nor capable. Just incompetent, as they take a knife to governance, ethics, and morality.
Riley probably paid Pam $25 to make the announcement. I mean, look what she’ll do for a mere $25,000.
We all get something that tops it!
overdue process
While we’re on the subject of workers of iniquity.
That’s all heresy evidence.
The biggest numbers! Quadrillions! Sextillions! Googolplexes!
On the other hand, the AMOUNTS are way down.
I sure hope the Dem party has all channels open to every single group and Social Justice Warrior clique in order to coordinate messaging…and for the Dem party to KNOW what these groups are saying and doing.
Because, it all redounds or accumulates on us. Every single word that makes it onto the ethersphere is usually used to hurt us…used against us. So every effort to take back the microphone, and help be the clearing house and organizing muscle/guidance by the Dems is necessary. Not saying the Dems need to be heavy-handed or take over with these groups…but they need to be in direct, continuous contact and offering all the help and suggestions possible so we are working together. Otherwise, the effect (over and over and over again) is that they cut the Dems off at the knees with surprise statements and demands and spite that destroys any effective messaging.
ETA:
What I mean by every word in the ethersphere gets used against us should be fairly self-evident to folks…but Dems get blamed for everything that people don’t like. If corporate commercials are force-feeding inter-racial couples in every ad…it becomes the Dems problem. If corporate hiring practices and zero-tolerance policies really aggravate a large part of the populace…it is Dems fault. For every leftish group that goes online or on social media and attempts to silence or cancel their perceived enemies…its’ Dem’s fault. Every TV show or movie that appears to highlight gay relationships, inter-racial couples, DEI themes, the Oscars…it all becomes the Dem’s fault when it raises hackles. So that is why it is extremely important that the Dem party is doing everything it can to reclaim and reinforce what our actual policies and strategies REALLY are.
…so, watching AbbyPhillips last night. Scott Jennings (huge sigh) claims that Garcia was being threatened by a rival gang in response to the former immigration lawyer stating why the immigration court ruled Garcia could not be deported to El Salvador as his life was being threaten to join a gang…
Well, don’t you have to be a member of a gang for there to be a rival gang?
Scott Jennings is such a bloviating liar, he is sooo annoying. He was intent on smearing Garcia…it’s just terrible how this hateful narrative is being perpetrated.
Just seems to me Garcia is example of how they will treat “home grown” criminals by calling them viscious career criminals who America needs to exile…as prelude to ordinary citizens vanishing next.
Trump is intent on terrorizing every single one of us…worse of all is that he is the quintessential example, based on his criminality criteria that should be sent to gulag & exiled right now. He’s a rapist & terrorist, destroying our democracy. Deport him!
Dare I ask? Record numbers of what?
Re: Xiaofeng Wang
Yes. Josh Marshall has had 2-3 editorial posts about this a few weeks back. Glad to see the Guardian has picked up on it, too!
Horse 
Because I am a certain age and a deeply flawed human being, I cannot even say the phrase in my head that “I am Abrego Garcia” without immediately following it with, “you killed my father. Prepare to die.”
I apologize for the knee jerk reaction.
Last Thursday my institution announces that four of our international students had had their visas revoked. (Still no “reason” given.)
I recited this John Donne poem to my class, emphasizing the “because I am involved in mankind” line.
Sadly, it’s just about the least I can do.
Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: “Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT.” She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
April 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Riley GAinES WOn THE OLYmpicS!
I know we can’t count on MAGA to understand anything about anything, but doesn’t he realize that these people buy gas and groceries and “everything else” every day? Is this his gambit to see if they’ll believe him even over the overwhelming, ubiquitous evidence in their own lives? It’s stunning.
When and where? Does Blondi mean that some dude from ICE told one of her flunkies that he was a gang member? Has anybody from ICE said as much as boo to a judge about this?
