A bum, a grifter, in so many ways, too many to list. And a liar and cheat, and the rest of the 91 felonies and however many personal lawsuits still hanging over him. But especially, BLOATy McBLOATface is absolutely the BLOATiest of the BLOATS and the bummiest of the bums.
He has a trial set to start on Monday, and has lost in every attempt to get it dismissed or pushed back. Substantial numbers of Republicans say they won’t vote for him if he is convicted of a felony.
Republican politicians are...How did Mark Twain put it? Oh, yes, it went something like this.
Reader, suppose you were a Republican Congressman. And suppose you were a moral idiot. But I repeat myself.
Not like the honest bums who were just out of work in earlier ages. Note that this song is from before the crash and the Great Depression. In fact, it seems to be a late 19th century folk song, first seen in print in 1908, and then used as an anthem by the IWW/the Wobblies.
Harry McClintock - Hallelujah ! I'm A Bum (1928).
The Bum’s Rush
Former President Donald Trump’s net worth fell by about $300 million Wednesday as shares of his social media company continued to decline, bringing the company’s market capitalization below $5 billion after peaking at twice that valuation two weeks ago.
Short sellers continue to be cautiously happy as they look forward to the stock’s drop-dead bankruptcy.
Short Sellers Look To Profit From Collapse Of Trump’s Truth Social Stock: 5 Things To Know
Trump Media sues former "Apprentice" contestants and Truth Social co-founders to strip them of shares
Condolences to Donald J. Trump. Donald, we know you are upset (take a deep breath) that you have been kicked off the Forbes and Bloomberg list of BILLIONAIRES. That must make you bigly mad, ketchup mad, diaper mad. But we just want you to know...THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT YOU!!!
Courts next, then conventions, more meshugas, and voting a number of bums out.
Good News for Us
Good For All News:
Ukraine Invasion Day 777: more than ninety-seven F-16 strike fighters will be sent
Happy 94th birthday, Dolores! When I was a young organizer, reading about @DoloresHuerta’s life and work showed me what was possible. As one of America's great labor and civil rights icons, Dolores has devoted her entire life to advocating for marginalized communities. She knows the power of community organizing, and through the Dolores Huerta Foundation, she continues to train and mentor new activists and organizers. She also came up with a pretty good slogan, “Sí, se puede.” Yes, we can.
Bad News for Them
They just can’t help themselves, can they?
Like the Wrong-Wing loonburger who put an Exxon climate denial ad on this song (in the style of Devo, who enjoyed it, but claim they hate Al for being able to do their style so well).
I will spare you the ad, I think. Worse than that is a Hillsdale Christian Nationalist ad on Eat It.
Dare To Be Stupid (live) - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Thanks, Al.
The RNC has been caught making scripted phone calls denying the results of Biden’s election in 2020, and claiming that Democrats will have multitudes of non-citizens voting. Reported this morning on CNN.
BREAKING: MAGA Republicans suffer a humiliating public defeat as their attempt to impeach Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold completely implodes.They were attempting to remove her for supporting efforts to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot.Republicans in the Colorado House of Representatives appeared before the Judiciary Committee in the State Capitol and made their argument for removal.Unfortunately for the MAGA cultists, the committee in question is composed of eight Democrats and three Republicans — so the majority saw right through the cynical partisan hackery.Republicans have been whining nonstop about Griswold used her office to disqualify Trump from the Colorado primary ballot. For her part, Griswold correctly argued that Trump's involvement in the deadly January 6th insurrection should bar him from office."House Republicans are trying to impeach me for saying the undeniable truth, and I want to clearly to the Republicans on this committee Trump is an oath-breaking insurrectionist," said an undaunted Griswold. "He is a danger to our country and our democracy.""House Republicans allege that I have an opinion and that that opinion should not be heard, and to that I say, you will not silence me. I will not be stopped by this proceeding from doing my job, and protecting our constitution and our democracy," she added.Thankfully, the state's House Judiciary Committee rejected the impeachment resolution.
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No Joe is trending. Which means the #MAGAMoron clowns are at it again. Pathetic bunch aren't they? They worship a psychopath. A pathetic, sick, thieving, corrupt, treasonous, lying sex offender. #WednesdayMotivation
'Dire straits': Insiders say Trump campaign's in shambles just months from election
According to this Raw Story article:
Two Republican operatives privately told NBC News Trump and the Republican National Committee have fewer than five staff members between them in Pennsylvania and Michigan. And Trump reportedly can't afford to expand the campaign's staff to full capacity in some places, like Pennsylvania, until the summer.
Ted Cruz Under Investigation for Breaking Campaign Finance Laws
It’s illegal to raise money for a Super PAC supporting you — but Ted Cruz has been doing just that.In exchange for “volunteering” as a podcast host, iHeartRadio dumped $630k into his Super PAC, while also lobbying for bills handled by Cruz's committees.
This is corruption.
Biden puts the heat on Mike Johnson to allow a Ukraine aid vote, "The war in Ukraine comes to an end by the House leader allowing a vote. There's overwhelming support for Ukraine among the majority of Democrats and Republicans. There should be a vote now."
BREAKING: Donald Trump just doubled down on his antisemitic attacks against Jewish Americans saying if they don’t vote for him, they hate their religion. Retweet to make sure all Americans are aware of Trump’s dangerous antisemitism.
Rachel Maddow did an excellent takedown of Axos Bank aka Bank of Internet USA on Monday. (Sorry about the ad for the repellent Sen. Mike Braun, (R-Indianastan)).
Bank with a checkered past and a deep history with Trump raises red flags
Our niftywriter covered the disaster on Tuesday, in Let the Finding Out Begin! - Tuesday's Good News Roundup.
Keep your eyes on this story. Shadowy “online” Axos Bank and its biggest billionaire shareholder, Don Hankey, have together extended more than $500 million in financing for Trump’s benefit. They helped him out on loans and now a huge civil judgment. What will they get in return?
The New York court is determined to find out what sort of Hankey-Pankey has been going on, especially since Trimp told various courts that he couldn’t raise the money anywhere.
BREAKING: the U.S senate is thinking about revoking Trump's Secret Service protection if Trump is convicted and Jailed
NEW: For the second time, a federal judge rejects a Republican lawsuit trying to block a new Nevada law that protects election officials from harrassment and intimidation. The law will continue to safeguard election workers from increasing threats.
Nevada Election Worker Protection Law Challenge
On Oct. 20, 2023, the judge dismissed the case. On Nov. 2 the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, thereby reopening the case.
On April 8, 2024, the judge dismissed the case for a second time.
Judge Cannon reconsiders and will keep witnesses anonymous
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to reconsider a prior ruling that prosecutors argued would have revealed the names of certain witnesses who spoke to investigators, and subjected them to intimidation and harassment from Trump and his supporters.
BREAKING: In a win for voters, a federal judge dismisses a lawsuit from 11 Michigan Republicans using the rejected independent state legislature theory to try to strike down two voting rights amendments. The pro-voting amendments will remain in place in MI.
The People's President is our ONLY President. Joe Biden. 81 MILLION of us voted for Joe for a reason.
BTW, the only #Bidenflation I see is the inflation of 15 MILLION jobs he created.
Image: Smiling Biden saying, “I haven’t seen Republicans this angry…since yesterday.”
For the seventh time this Congress, the House has rejected a rule to allow for legislation on the floor, the latest example of the tumult within the House GOP. 19 Republicans voted to kill a rule to take up the FISA bill after Trump urged them to derail it. Before that, a rule hadn’t failed since 2002.
Abortion, Abortion, Abortion
#BREAKINGNEWS Donald Trump claims that even Democrats wanted him to overturn Roe V Wade. Everyone is happy about it. Women who follow me are you happy about your body being attacked by the Republican Party? Trump then says he's proud of his job and returns abortion laws back to the states. He's proud millions of women will be denied healthcare and the access to abortions. Let's remind all the nut jobs. Pro choice isn't pro abortion.
And now the shapeshifting Thing claims that he does NOT want a national no-exceptions abortion law, and wouldn’t sign one—after furious blowback against Rs blocking repeal of the 1864 law in Arizona.
Shouts of ‘Shame! Shame!’ erupt in Arizona House as fight over abortion ban engulfs lawmakers
Donald just tanked his campaign in every swing state.
If this country was truly “Pro-Life,” we wold have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
A Deep Dive On The Abortion Fight in Florida (Video), Helping Arizona, GOP = An Unprecedented Dumpster Fire
Muppet Songs: Raquel Welch and Miss Piggy - I'm a Woman
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
‘The Javan tiger still exists’: DNA Find May Herald an Extinct Species’ Comeback
Their testing compared the Sukabumi hair sample with hair from the museum specimen collected in 1930, as well as with other tigers, Javan leopards, and several sequences from GenBank, a publicly accessible database of genetic sequences overseen by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Proteins in milk and blood could soon let doctors detect breast cancer earlier — and save lives
Our group is currently working on using blood serum to identify proteins that could be involved with breast cancer.
Moving from breast milk to blood serum would allow people of any age and reproductive status to be screened for the disease, rather than just those who are lactating.
Ahh…Living in the future.
Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics of Human Milk to Identify Differentially Expressed Proteins in Women with Breast Cancer versus Controls
I love modern dinosaurs.
(A, the central bright spot), a brown dwarf (B) circling around it, and a low-mass star (C) orbiting further away. However, a new study has revealed a never-before-seen hidden gem: an object (Cb), approximately 15 times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting around the smaller of the two stars (C).The discovery of Cb means that HIP 81208 is a uniquely intriguing system with two stars and two smaller bodies orbiting each one—in other words, a hierarchical quadruple system. The mass of the newly found Cb object places it right at the border between planets and brown dwarfs—failed stars that are not massive and hot enough to fuse hydrogen into helium.The hidden giant Cb was spotted when a team of astronomers, led by A. Chomez of the @Obs_Paris, re-analyzed archival data from the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument installed on the VLT. While many other instruments use indirect methods to hunt for far-flung worlds, SPHERE uses a technique known as direct imaging: what we see here is an actual image of the system. Indeed, this is the first hierarchical quadruple system to be found using direct imaging, which will prove invaluable to understanding how complex systems like this one form and evolve.
Exciting news in the fight against resistant lymphoma. Scientists have discovered a combo that could put the brakes on cancers that no longer respond to standard treatment. Get the details here. #CancerResearch #LymphomaAwareness
But remember never to anthromorphize the non-sentient. They hate that.
I got to watch the broadcast of the big announcement, with Higgs himself in the front row of the audience.
More proof that cats are a poorly-understood form of quantum matter.
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Back to Bach
P. D. Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) 1712 Overture
1712 Overture It is scored "for really big orchestra and some not-quite so big ensembles, plus unique on-location introductions, spoken on the very historical spots where the actual history happened."
The Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Philharmonic, Walter Bruno, conductor
It’s getting harder to find YouTube videos without annoying and sometimes insulting ads, but that’s all part of the service.
Author’s Note
My weeklong timeout over a banned word that I copied from somewhere else ended at 3 this morning. It’s good to be back.
So remember, not only can’t you say the dehumanizing extension of MAGA [Oh, no you don’t! Not on this site, nohow!] yourself, you can’t quote anyone else saying it. Not even the Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles. Not any of the other 37 million Google hits for it.
Now, what about this unfortunately named Simon & Schuster author?
A Filipino illustrator and proud winner of the 2021 Mad Cave Studios Talent Search. He has been published in WinC Magazine, FutureQuake, Tales from the Quarantine, Five from Beyond and Jill Trent: Science Sleuth. He has also contributed promotional artwork for the film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). For the first time ever, an entire 20 page story he drew will be available in comic book stores as part of the Mad Cave Studios series Tales from Nottingham.
Staff, please note that I am not trying to get around the policy, but I am interested in finding out what its limits are, and whether there are any appropriate and legitimate exceptions.