Trump DOJ Launches New Secret Gambit In Abrego Garcia Case

[kida]

@dicktater

We have been trying to wring out some kind of blue wave since before 2016 with our same messaging, same verbiage, same tactics, same hopium and then post-mortem saying there are millions of Dem voters who were too lazy…when monumental stakes for all of them were on the line. 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024 were All Hands On Deck 5 alarm fires…democracy and your life/liberty and bodily autonomy were on the line.

Hoping a ton of mythical/fictional lazibones will get off the couch isn’t a strategy and we’ve proven they really aren’t there.

It was abstract before. This regime has made it all very concrete, and when the economic impacts of the beautiful tariffs hit home, it might not be too much to expect a different outcome in 2026

[ClutchCargo]

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

[osprey]

@ClutchCargo

@dicktater

Grey catbird?

Yup.

We get quite a few of them, haven’t heard one yet this year.

Saw the first one the other day. Also our phoebes are back. Spring is here!

[dicktater]

@ClutchCargo

@dicktater

Grey catbird?

Yup.

We get quite a few of them, haven’t heard one yet this year.

The plaintive, whiny little mewling they do (sounds like a cat’s meeow…a little bit and thus the name) always makes me smile. We have neighbor kids on the other side of the hedge, and I can always hear the two older kids (4-5 yrs old) planning something and the little 2 yr old following them around whining. That is what the grey catbird sounds like to me. A whiny, not very heartfelt attempt to sound pathetic to get attention from older siblings who are leaving you out. And it makes me laugh.

@kelaine yes I love their mohawk and watching them skipping through the lower branches around my yard.

[zandru]

@carolson

So the fact that Trump caved on his tariffs to China is nowhere in the news?

Why should it be? The way NPR reported it, the Convict Would-Be King reportedly said he might decrease tariffs on China. Hadn’t done so. It hasn’t happened. It may not happen. It’s just more froth coming out of the mad dog’s mouth. Not worth even caring about.

[fiftygigs]

@srfromgr

What’s the biggest thing we get from India?

AI says, in order:

1. Pharmaceuticals
2. Precious stones and metals (diamond and gold)
3. Textiles (garments and textiles)
4. Machinery (telcom instruments)

[zandru]

@srfromgr

What’s the biggest thing we get from India?

In my case,it’s spam. 10-20 calls a day.

[srfromgr]

Thanks. I couldn’t resist looking it up. Curiosity got the better of me. I added it to my comment above as you can see.

[darrtown]

@zandru

@fiftygigs

We need an additional mechanism besides impeachment of the president, which is dependent upon the same political party acting to censure one of their own.

Yes. And the 25th Amendment has the same problems, plus having built in and massive delays. Nobody has anticipated the case of when the president has clearly gone nuts. AND his party fully backs the insanity.

The SCOTUS immunity decision stands in the way of putting a sitting president in jail.

[michaelryerson]

I’ve had an epiphany. I’m convinced he’s not crazy. I’m convinced he’s doing Putin’s bidding exclusively now. Putin wants our democracy destroyed, our financial markets destroyed, our military defanged. In return Trump stands to have a billions of dollars payout courtesy the Russians and the Saudis (see Jared Kushner). and a retirement Dacha in some out of the way place. It’s the only way any of this makes sense. He lards the federal government with wholly unqualified nitwits and let’s them have the run of the place to the delight of Putin and the Crown Prince of Bone Saws. Sorry, this is what makes sense to me. Worrying about his day-to-day misses the point. The day-to-day is theater. The bond market goes next.

[osprey]

A lot of the ingredients for medications come from India. Pharmaceuticals are a big deal. Likewise with China. We import most of our life-saving drugs. India or China could bring our healthcare industry to its knees with some well placed tariffs or just by cutting off shipments. A whole lot of people would die.

[leftcoaster]

Stephen MIller and Marco Rubio’s pawprints are all over this.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement

[ralph_vonholst]

@fiftygigs

@srfromgr

What’s the biggest thing we get from India?

AI says, in order:

1. Pharmaceuticals
2. Precious stones and metals (diamond and gold)
3. Textiles (garments and textiles)
4. Machinery (telcom instruments)

Also, they invented the zero. All of our zeroes come from India. It’s nothing to write home about, though.

[srfromgr]

Agree with you on that one. Or a place that employs a lot of phishing online.

[leftcoaster]

[dicktater]

@kida

@dicktater

Hoping a ton of mythical/fictional lazibones will get off the couch isn’t a strategy and we’ve proven they really aren’t there.

It was abstract before. This regime has made it all very concrete, and when the economic impacts of the beautiful tariffs hit home, it might not be too much to expect a different outcome in 2026

Respectfully, we’ve been saying stuff like this for a long time. Remember Fitzmagic? The big DOJ muckety muck who was going to hold Bush/Cheney accountable? Or the total whiff on holding banksters accountable when they wrecked the global economy and millions lost their homes? Or Mueller? Or Impeachments? Or Garland/Smith? Or when abortion was outlawed?

If people haven’t come to grips with reality yet, and thought all of this was abstract…then we don’t need them (or certainly can’t count on them). I refer to some bastion (millions) of blue/indie voters who just can’t seem to get motivated enough to vote reliably. And the tariffs and economic impacts are going to hit everyone…we need to widen our base and message and who we are going after. Throw away the old tactics and the broken lens we’ve been looking through.

[Scoutmom]

Army commander suspended after refusing to display Trump photo

I have seen the following possible reasons for the missing pictures:

• They were there, then they were missing.
• They were never up,
• The Commander instructed “someone” to take them down.
• The Commander instructed “someone” to not hang them
• They were hung, then turned around to face the wall.
• There’s nothing on the wall.
• There are empty frames on the wall.
• What wall?

OK, yeah, snark on the last one, but every other one has been in an article.

In a statement, Fort McCoy’s Senior Commander Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Reinert said: ‘Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez has been suspended as Garrison Commander at Fort McCoy. This suspension is not related to any misconduct. We have no further details to provide at this time while this matter is under review’

Not related to any misconduct. OK

[osprey]

@zandru

@carolson

So the fact that Trump caved on his tariffs to China is nowhere in the news?

Why should it be? The way NPR reported it, the Convict Would-Be King reportedly said he might decrease tariffs on China. Hadn’t done so. It hasn’t happened. It may not happen. It’s just more froth coming out of the mad dog’s mouth. Not worth even caring about.

Was reported yesterday. Apparently some enterprising individuals (probably with an advance heads up) made a pile of money on the swing. @castor_troy linked to an article on it last night.

[tigersharktoo]

Off to Jury Duty.

Jury Instructions, Final Arguments and then Deliberation.

Maybe we we conclude today…

Please don’t let the World blow up while I am locked into a closed room with11 other people.

[mondfledermaus]

@sniffit

Boycott all things Paramount.

Can’t do it right now, they have the rights for the UEFA Champions League games in the US…