This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.www.motherjones.com/politics/202…
I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners.Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.We cannot stay silent.
They waited for hours outside her home, took her to Louisiana against a judges orders. PAY ATTENTION AMERICANS……NO ONE IS SAFE IF WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS. WE ARE NEXT!!
Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right nowThanks for your service to our country
While the executive order leaves many questions unanswered, a few impacts are immediately clear and deeply concerning.First, it requires that all votes be received by Election Day to be counted in federal elections. This directly conflicts with Washington law,
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The Third Anniversary. Sad anniversary for Ukraine, invaded by Putin’s army three years ago. And now, the cherry on the cake, the partition between Trump and Putin.
Republicans want to classify their opponents as insane Read on Substack
Let’s make one thing clear. Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS if you prefer, is not a thing. It’s not like it’s ever been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine or been studied at the Mayo Clinic. It’s about as legitimate a medical condition as rock-and-roll pneumonia, a bad case of loving you, or being cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Sure, Cocoa Puffs is delicious, but it doesn’t make people cuckoo any more than Trix is exclusively for kids and not weird, stalkery creeper rabbits. I always felt like the cereal was just a cover for what that rabbit was really going after.
That rabbit probably wanted what Justin Eichorn wanted, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
Five Republican men in the Minnesota state senate have introduced a bill that would include TDS in the statutory definition of mental illness. The bill defines the syndrome as characterised by “verbal expressions of intense hostility toward” Donald Trump and “overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting [Trump] or anything that symbolises [Trump].”
According to Republicans, if hate that Trump sucks up to Putin, then you’re deranged. If you think it’s weird that Trump wants to “date” his daughter, then you’re deranged. If you don’t like that Trump is a grifter, you’re deranged. If you hate that selling products while in office, you’re deranged. If you hate tariffs, you’re deranged. I think Trump shouldn’t be attacking our allies, you’re deranged. If you don’t think the president of the United States should be Elon’s personal sock puppet, then you’re deranged. If you think the president shouldn’t be a felon, you’re deranged. If you believe the president of the United States should know more words than a Beagle, you are deranged. In a Beagle’s defense, after you start spelling words so the Beagle won’t know what you’re saying, the Beagle learns how to spell.
It’s easier to dismiss your political opponents’ arguments as crazy or irrational than to counter with an argument of your own. You would think the deranged person is the one who supports deranged positions he can’t defend.
Deranged is living through the worst administration in US history, then voting for it again.
Recently, Kentucky Congressman James Comer issued a statement comparing town halls to “therapy sessions for left-wing activists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.” If someone asks you to justify Elon’s unconstitutional assault on the government and what right he has to work as an unelected fourth branch of government, it’s easier to dismiss that person as crazy than to answer the question. TDS is a very handy argument for Republican chickenshits.
Harriet Hageman, Wyoming’s lone representative in Congress, dismissed town halls as “hysteria,” and her reason for not holding any. Derangement is kicking out Liz Cheney because she investigated an attack against our nation and replacing her with a representative who’s going to accuse you of “hysteria.”
It’s a common Republican tactic to dismiss your opponents instead of countering facts. Instead of taking accountability for leaking classified information to a journalist, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Jeffrey Goldberg is a “deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.” Even if any of that were true, it still doesn’t answer the question or explain why he was added to your chat.
If Jeffrey Goldberg was truly deceitful, highly discredited, and has made a profession of peddling hoaxes, then why did you have him in your group chat discussing classified information? Doesn’t that make it worse? And your answer to that question would probably be, “That cartoonist has Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Pete Hegseth isn’t even smart enough to deflect, less alone to possess classified information.
The chances of this TDS bill passing into Minnesota law are slim and none, but what makes these five Republican state senators qualified to diagnose a mental illness or identify a fake condition as one? Are they doctors? I’m glad you asked.
The sponsors of the bill are Glenn Gruenhagen, Nathan Wesenberg, Steve Drazkowski, Eric Lucero, and Justin Eichorn. These men must be doctors, right? I looked into it.
Gruenhagen’s career is in finance, NOT medicine. Wesenberg is a wildlife biologist. Maybe he can tell whether or not squirrels are crazy (they are), but not you. Drazkowski is a firearms safety instructor who probably votes to protect the rights of mentally ill people to purchase guns, but he’s not trained to determine who is and isn’t because he’s NOT a doctor. Lucero is NOT a doctor but should probably see one because he’s a chem-trail conspiracy theorist, which is not a thing either. And finally, Justin Eichorn is NOT a doctor either but is a possible pedophile and realtor.
So these guys who want to make TDS a mental condition demand that…hold up. Did I write that one of these guys is a possible pedophile? How could Justin Eichorn be a pedophile? How could any Republican be a pedophile? Aren’t they the ones who spent the past four years calling us “groomers?” Eichorn has also taken a conservative stand against young children learning about gender diversity and sexual orientations, yet…I’m sure he was planning to show his sexual orientation to the 17-year-old girl he believed he was talking to before To Catch A Predator busted his ass.
It wasn’t To Catch a Predator that caught him. That show ended years ago, but now I wish it was still on. I would have loved to see the surprised look on Eichorn’s face as he walked in with a six-pack of wine coolers while discovering his underage date was a bunch of cops. My money is on the entrapment defense.
Last week, more Republican state senators were arrested in Minnesota for soliciting a minor than drag queens.
But what happened? Was Eichorn rushing the TDS bill with the other four guys and saying, “Hurry this up, guys. I have a date.”?
According to the Bloomington (MN) Police Department, 40-year-old Eichorn was arrested after allegedly arranging to meet up with someone whom he believed to be a 17-year-old girl. When he got to the location, he was met by uniformed police officers and booked into jail before being transported to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. He must have been disappointed it wasn’t the Juvenile Detention Center.
According to the cops, when the fake minor told Eichorn she was only 17, his response was, “Cool. Do you like raspberry or watermelon-flavored wine coolers?” or something to that effect.
Police said, “Felony charges of Soliciting Under 18 Year Old to Practice Prostitution are pending from the Hennepin County Attorney’s office.” But then, federal prosecutors took over the case, and now Eichorn is facing a federal charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution. This might be his lucky break because a Trump-appointed prosecutor could drop the charges, and federal charges can be pardoned. I mean, pedophilia is bad, but Trump once endorsed a pedophile for the US Senate. He’s done business with pedophiles. He’s appointed pedophiles. He’s partied with pedophiles and even rode on their planes. It’s not like Eichorn did something “illegal,” like boycotted Tesla or said something “treasonous” about Trump’s tiny fingers.
Eichorn has resigned from the state senate because it’s not a place for pedophiles, but there may be an opening soon in Trump’s cabinet. Trump did try to make a pedophile his Attorney General.
Ya know, I’m starting to think it’s not the Left who’s deranged.
Creative notes: I had two ideas for this one, and it was difficult for me to choose between them, and not just because I already used Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs back in 2021. Both roughs will be featured in the next Blog o’ Roughs, coming soon.
The first mistake was giving classified information to Pete HegsethRead on Substack
If only someone could have foreseen that being a host on Fox & Friends doesn’t make one qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was sitting in his car in a Safeway parking lot when he received a message about an upcoming military strike in Yemen. The message was part of a group chat in Signal, a messaging app, sent from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic, “I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.”
The world found out on March 15 at 2 p.m. Eastern time that the United States had bombed Houthi targets in Yemen, but Goldberg knew at 11:44 a.m. The message included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
Note that Goldberg didn’t expose this intel fiasco until yesterday, ten days after the strike. My question is: Did any of the group chat participants notice Goldberg was in the chat before yesterday?
After the National Security Council confirmed the legitimacy of the chat, Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard claimed there was no classified information in the chat. The White House also claimed no classified information or war plans were shared. Then, Pete Hegseth made the same claim, saying, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.”
Except, that wasn’t all he had to say about “that,” as he also said Goldberg is “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.” Keep in mind that this guy who used to work for Fox News now works for Donald Trump, the king of discredited lies and conspiracy theories.
While interviewing Goldberg on CNN Monday night, Caitlin Collins said to Goldberg, “I want to start by getting your reaction to what we heard from Secretary Hegseth there, saying that ‘Nobody was texting war plans.’ Given you were privy to this group chat, is that how you saw it?”
Goldberg replied, “No, that’s a lie. He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans. When targets were going to be targeted; how they were going to be targeted; who was at the targets; when the next sequence of attacks was happening.”
The only way the Trump administration can cover their ass on this is to lie.
In a quickly-called Senate hearing this morning, Gabbard refused to even admit she was part of the chat, saying she didn’t want to get into “specifics.” Senator Mark Warner asked, “Why aren’t you gonna get into the specifics? Is this—is it because it’s all classified?
Gabbard said she couldn’t get into specifics about the chat she claimed didn’t contain classified intel, and said she couldn’t “because this is currently under review by the National Security Council.”
That prompted Warner to ask, “Because it’s all classified? If it’s not classified, share the texts now.”
Gabbard, Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe lacked the basic due diligence to check the group chat participants before spouting off about war plans. These people chosen by Trump are amateurs when it comes to their jobs and securing classified intelligence.
If only someone had pointed to these people’s lack of qualifications for their jobs. Oh, wait. We did.
Other members of the chat were National Security Advisor Mike Walz Veep JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, National Counterterrorism Center Director Nominee Joe Kent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen “Baby Goebbels” Miller, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff. Not one of these idiots noticed Goldberg’s name in the chat and asked, “Who’s that guy?”
Gabbard said there was a difference between the “inadvertent release” and “malicious leaks” of classified information before restating that there was no classified material in the chat, trying to have it both ways.
Unless the administration came out before the strike and said, “We’re going to start dropping bombs on Houthi rebels in Yemen at 2 p.m. on March 15, the information in the chat was classified.
This leak wasn’t malicious or inadvertent. It was inept. You would think if all the participants of this classified chat were competent, at least one of them would have spotted that one of the participants was a journalist, a journalist who did a better job of retaining the classified information better than the Secretary of Defense, Director of National Security, the FBI Director and the CIA Director.
Warner said Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Walz didn’t “conduct hygiene 101” in making sure the classified chat was secure.
Warner said, “If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired” and “This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time error.”
If you don’t remember this happening in the Biden administration, it’s because it never did. Biden hired competent and qualified people, not the Gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
Later, he called for the resignations of Hegseth and Walz, but I think everyone in that chat should resign, including the vice president (sic). Didn’t they all want Hillary Clinton “locked up” for risking the exposure of classified information?
The Trump administration talks a lot of shit about our national security, as though they take it seriously. If they really took it seriously, they wouldn’t hire jackasses like Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Walz, Kash Patel, and John Ratcliffe. Hell, if Republicans took our nation seriously, they wouldn’t have nominated that racist idiot Donald Trump.
Mark Warner said, “When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option.”
Creative note: I had something else planned for today, but this story threw that out the window last night. I had more than one reader message me, “Can’t wait to see your Hegseth cartoon.” Fortunately, those messages weren’t classified.
Music note: I listened to everything on this cafe’s sound system. Unfortunately, it included a lot of John Mayer. I hate John Mayer.
Not happy with his official one in the Colorado state capitol Read on Substack
It’s one thing to be unhappy with how other people see your appearance, it’s another to publicly whine and obsess over it.
This is not an important issue in the many horrible actions of the first two months of the Trump administration but only to reinforce his narcissism and what he spends his time on as president. One a much more important subject, I have a graphic essay in the works about how Trump attacked the free press in his first administration to what he’s doing now.
You won’t get a long, thoughtful, in-depth, eloquent educational blog today (usually, just long) because I’m just having some fun. We also discussed this issue two days ago, so there’s really nothing to get outraged about here. Or is there?
When I wrote the last blog on this, someone left a comment (I don’t remember who but you can claim it) that the media needed to stop referring to the two astronauts with the extended stays on the International Space Station (ISS), as stranded.
I agree because they were not stranded. Even MAGAt Steve Kelley knows they weren’t “stranded” because if they were, then he would have drawn Superman saving them instead of kissing Elon’s ass. Superman knew the astronauts were safe, so he could focus on more important things, like saving Canada and Greenland from Trump.
This was not Apollo 13, where NASA had to figure out how to get the astronauts home. One of those astronauts was played by Tom Hanks in a film, who had also played a castaway in another movie. And it wasn’t like the film The Martian, when an astronaut was stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon who also had to be rescued in Saving Private Ryan by Tom Hanks. Sonofabitch! It’s also not like the other times Matt Damon had to be rescued, like in Interstellar, Courage Under Fire, Titan A.E., Elysium, Syrianna, or Green Zone. We need to tie Matt Damon to Ben Affleck so we’ll never have to rescue him again. We’re not lucky enough to lose Ben Affleck.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were NOT stranded. Also, it’s not like being asked to work a weekend like in Office Space where if you don’t go, Bill Lumbergh’s going to call you all Saturday.
“Yeah, hi…it’s Bill Lumbergh calling again. Uhhhh, yeah…I just wanted to make sure you knew that we started…mmmm, yeah, at the usual time this morning at the….yeah…International Space Station. So…. if you could come on in….yeah…and bring those TPS reports with you…that would be great…uhhhh, also, it’s…yeah…Hawaiian shirt day.”
Most astronauts want to spend more time in space. They’re not Matt Damon.
Williams and Wilmore’s trip was extended because the spacecraft that took them to the ISS had safety issues, so their trip was extended. They were NOT alone on the ISS as other astronauts were there with them. Were they also stranded? No. There are seven astronauts on the International Space Station right now. There are three more on the Tiangong Space Station (space commies). None of them are stranded.
In the case of Williams and Wilmore, NASA wasn’t trying to figure out how to get them home. They were trying to decide when and which craft. No one had to figure out how to get them home. They were picked up during the regular rotation of delivering and returning astronauts.
When you go to a bar and do the responsible thing and call an Uber to take you home, the Uber is not rescuing you (unless a Nickelback cover band is playing in the bar…and you’re sitting next to Ben Affleck, then you really are being rescued).
SpaceX is already contracted with NASA so it’s not like Elon came running to help from out of nowhere. NASA has contracts with other companies that deliver astronauts. Also, Elon didn’t volunteer to “rescue” these astronauts for free. Elon has been paid $13 billion by NASA over the past decade, and future payments will be higher.
While most readers will think this cartoon is just me having some fun, it’s also mocking all the fuckers who believe Elon rescued stranded astronauts.
And speaking of Gilligan, why can’t we lose Elon during a three-hour tour?
Music note: I listened to Van Halen, NOT Van Hagar.
Creative notes: I wrote this idea yesterday and saved it for today so I could draw the deportation cartoon, which I had been trying to do for a week. This cartoon, the second I’ve drawn today (the first was for the Advance which you’ll see tomorrow) took four hours.
Happy Ostara and Spring Equinox! It started with snow this morning, which was a bummer, but you know – in like a lion and all that. I’m ready for the lamb!
Build your path with patience. Small steps are progress. XOXO
The self-anointed chairman of the Kennedy Center fancies himself a producer Read on Substack
One of his favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof and “when he was a young man Mr. Trump had dreams of one day becoming a Broadway producer himself. Now, he said, the Kennedy Center’s focus would be on producing ‘Broadway hits.’”
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