This could be the last week for this hashtag 🙁. #TulipTuesday

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Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 44
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30

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A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

Witnesses in criminal probe of ex-CIA Director Brennan subpoenaed to testify before grand jury, sources say The subpoenas went out shortly after the Justice Department appointed conservative Trump ally Joe DiGenova to formally take over the criminal investigation into John Brennan.

This story came out three hours ago. Cooperating witnesses were subpoenaed after diGenova was appointed to testify before the grand jury as early as this week. There's more...
www.cbsnews.com/news/john-br...

Tell them you golf early in the morning. The air is cleaner, cooler and it starts the day with everything getting better after a good game of golf. That is why you want Standard Time year round as days get longer you want that hour in the morning. We all want our hour that gets rigged out with DST.

I have loathed RfK from day one when I heard the first words out of his mouth. I never paid much attention to any of the Kennedys in the last 15 years except peripherally. I was not impressed with John Jr as much as I was of Caroline Kennedy. As soon as RFK was in the news I would mute button him.

I heard Mr. K. arguing that case thru C-SPAN on TV & PC.
Great to see him again. I watched nearly every TV appearance he made since I got glued to TV in 2016.

BTW I missed most of the handoff from Rachel but to me you'll be Lawrence O'. affectionately & with the greatest respect.

This man is articulate in speech. He delivers as does Gov. Walz who was on earlier with The Weeknight. Two excellent people who give "politicians" a good name. I look forward to hearing his take on just "today's" news.

I missed a lot of this yesterday but caught up on mostly all of it today. And this is only a fraction of what was pulled off starting in 2016 when power structures were in play to undermine our present form of government. I was hair afire when he won and dismayed ever since. Big TY for these posts.

yup this is the Roy Cohn being trumps master of manipulation, finding the right judge.
"Don't tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is"

"masters are working the legal system..." Roy Cohn was his master, who said, " "Don't tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is". Lets not forget Roger Stone and their concept of rule of law is to use it as another tool to break the law.

I was responding to the earlier "like" by you at the same time but you summed it up more concisely. This thread put it pretty much together along with fact that trump uses innuendo to conjure illusions to manipulate those easily chtrumped like Fox viewers & hosts. Total CON
bsky.app/profile/jami...

TY for connecting dots again more clearly for me. I saw posts about this yesterday but synapses weren't connecting today both are..connecting. I might have ol' tweets bookmarked somewhere too. Today on MSNOW Michael ? commented about the 3-ring circus being conducted. At least it sounded it might be

Made me LAFF OUT LOUD...and boy if ever I need a change of sensations in my brain today this is IT!!!
I feel like the "before" this morning and have almost no hopes for feeling like the "after" butt nowwww bowwwWowww!

THANKYOU this might have just saved my feeling for life today.

Made me LAFF OUT LOUD...and boy if ever I need a change of sensations in my brain today this is IT!!!
I feel like the "before" this morning and have almost no hopes for feeling like the "after" butt nowwww bowwwWowww!

Everything old is new again.

Beware and be wary (reposting in the hopes..)

“The emperor is buck-ass naked!” Nicolle Wallace on Trump's MELTDOWN in plain sight YouTube video by MS NOW

Sherrilyn reflects on the project before us in Trump’s aftermath: “part of what we have to do is to reexamine our definition of what it means to be a responsible citizen in this country.”

youtube.com/watch?v=6Xh6...

re-posting before listening to this hope to share anyway, what comes to mind is "We the People" voted him in a SECOND time!!?

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Schedule F, Project 2025, Russ Vought, Leonard Leo, Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, an overwhelming list of groups of people who have had this agenda for years.
The folks I've followed is how I learned the underlying power structures undermining our form of government for years.

TY for the link always appreciated and more.

Hegseth’s Feud With Army Secretary Spills Into Public View The spat comes as the U.S. military faces unprecedented commitments around the world.

People with knowledge of internal discussions said Hegseth was worried that Trump was eyeing Driscoll to replace him.

Hegseth and his aides suspected that Gen. Randy George had leaked to the NYTimes, and decided to ask for his resignation.

Gift 🎁 Link
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Finch in a dogwood

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Shouting in Clematis
#stunday #clematis #bloomscrolling #flowers #vines
#spring

So happy to see this. The right has been doing this for years, but we remain siloed and isolated within our national borders.

Found my CD. Robert Johnson, The Complete Collection with the 2 versions of Cross Road Blues. I got a bit busy between the first I reposted this and now after finding the CD. My growing up I listened to what was around me between CT & trains to NYC. The Annex Bar and Slugs when I was a teen, WSPark.

The thing I love about Trump's plan to blockade Iran's blockade is that there's a whole sea on the other side of Iran, via which Trump's lover Putin has been supporting Iran that, I'm fairly certain, the US can't blockade.