“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
— which of course dropped FIFTEEN MINUTES *AFTER* I PUBLISHED MY POST
Is it possible that Sassoon was really more amped to go after Adams because he was a democrat? Interesting that he immediately talked about joining the GOP before he makes his next run. Just not ready to trust that someone as conservative as Sassoon is some kind of saint. Once bitten...
here's something I opted not to include in my post. Josh Marshall claims that Sassoon's resignation letter to Bove "reveals that she witnessed Emil Bove negotiating an explicit quid-pro-quo in which Adams agreed to provide political and policy assistance to Donald Trump in exchange for dropping the criminal charges against him." I've read the letter. I don't see what Josh sees. maybe I'm missing it because it's cloaked in thick legalese that I couldn't penetrate.
"The legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.” JM § 1-8.100. But Adams has argued in substance and Mr. Bove appears prepared to concede?that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration's policy priorities."
Seems like a lot of lawyers at the Government Integrity office have integrity. Who saw that coming????!!!!
On a more elemental level, don't try to take a bone away from a junkyard dog. These lawyers were drooling over a chance to take down a Democratic Big City mayor. Bove, you got 'em mad.
There’s this nagging idea about right and wrong. Very little discussed in today’s news coverage. Firing the good cops (inspector generals) to cover up theft and bribery and corruption is wrong. Enabling criminality is wrong. Nice to see someone take a stand against immorality every once in awhile.
At that meeting, I believe that Bove took away all the notes that were being written by a junior US attorney. So yes, this is where the illegality happened. I hope the DOJ Public Corruption attorneys resign en masse. Maybe they will find a Bork in the DOJ somewhere to do the dirty deed.
I think at least part of the basis is that this is not a dismissal with prejudice. The implication is that if Adams doesn't toe the line, back come the charges. So the quid or quo, not sure which, was promising to toe the line despite City ordinances to the contrary
At the Oval Office press conference Tuesday, Musk expressed irritation that the federal government was paying Social Security benefits to people who are 150 years old. Clear proof that the bureaucracy was stupider than even MAGA thought!
But wait! A reader on Paul Krugman’s excellent Substack explained that when a Social Security recipient’s birthday is unknown, it is filled in as 1875 as a placeholder. Just speculating here, but there are plenty of immigrants who do not know their exact birth date, but the taxman doth know the dates that Federal Social Security withholding is taken out of their paychecks.
May I remind you of a previous stinky pile of Musk shit when de facto President Musk informed us that USAID had sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. Such waste! Such fraud! Such abuse! Turns out, the condoms were sent to a town called Gaza in Mozambique for the purposes of AIDS prevention.
At his Tuesday press conference, Musk opined, “Would the American taxpayer really be wanting to do that, send condoms to Mozambique?” Keep in mind that according to the State Department, AIDS Prevention programs are supposed to be exempt from DOGE cuts.
Moral: Both de facto POTUS and pro forma POTUS seem poorly informed about many details of government.
Remember: This is a coup, and this is a war. A coup is a sudden illegal movement to seize power. World War II began with two coups: Germany attacked Poland without warning, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. Never forget that both countries ended up with the shit bombed out of them.
I think you nailed it, Kathleen. Most, if not all of these prevarications are the result of low IQ individuals attempting to understand the written word, and puking it back up in a thoroughly misconstrued manner. Only idiotic MAGATS will believe these falsehoods…but that’s the intent.
This coup is going to make sure that our votes will not count in two years. They're also itching for angry protests that can be put down with force, and giving the fanta menace the opportunity to invoke the insurrection act and/or use our military against civilians. Illegal orders will be followed by MAGA soldiers and illegal militias. Of course, I hope I am wrong.
I apologize. It's one thing to air one's anxieties in public. It's another to assume that no one is doing anything good in response to this shit show. That's complying in advance with the fascists. Don't give up the ship!
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Let's not give in to despair just yet. Instead, get out and do the things so you can meet other people doing the things. On President's Day, many across this country are planning on holding signs and coming together to protest this BS. Either go to your state's seat of govt or go to your local town hall. Bring signs. Bring patriotic flags. Sing! Protest! Bring cookies and hot beverages! Cheer every car that honks in solidarity with you! Talk amongst yourselves!
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"Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! We willna be fooled agin!!!" (If you haven't read about the Nac Mac Feegles in Sir Terry Pratchett's books, what are you waiting for?)
They are well aware of this. Remember pre election they told us that they would only take total political power in the US ‘peacefully’ if we let them. The weasel words of a rapist and rapists, by definition, have no ability to recognise or respect moral, physical, geographical or legal boundaries. They inhabit a worldview where ‘real’ men and women just take what they want.
The dogs at the Federalist Society seem to have caught the car - trump’s DOJ just defied the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding a Federal statute to remove access to the TikTok App. The App is now back in Apple and Google shops.
Pammy Bondi just overruled the US Congress and Supreme Court. 😳
“eine klein ketchupmusik”……would love to hear that song! Sassoon is a hero as are the rest who are resisting this fascist administration! Kristi Noem….only in it for the photo ops. Happy fucking Friday.
Sassoon is the rare person in that ultra-right sphere with a modicum of principle and perhaps an eye to her legacy. All these shameless, spineless assholes who confirmed the absolute worst cabinet in history have shit on their own place in history.
I was thinking the other day about ‘Whipping Peter’, the Civil War - era photograph of a slave’s back, disfigured with scars from the lash. That, along with much other media regarding slavery, is now in the National Archives. Just as books about slavery are being banned, when will all our history be completely white-washed?
The National Park Service collaborate and work with the National Archives to preserve historic records. We can see the beginnings of NPS already being disabled.
there iz NO yesterday today iz questionable tomorrow? what'z that?
retaliation will get us many casualties ... both sides
YES THEY HAVE NO RULES! DEMOCRACY DOES! becoming maga like erases democracy. don't get me wrong people but you won't find me in the kumbaya choir or on the front lines caught up in the 'machoman' theatrics of war.
you will find me in the streets educating! knowledge isz the power that could save our lives
Note the people with spines are also the smartest ones who have a future elsewhere (or a nice retirement) they need to get started on. Unlike the clown car of dicks like noem and RFK and Patel and hegs and that omb asshat - the thing all these people have in common is that they are exponential POSERS. Sassoon apparently has a clue and can take her marbles and go play somewhere else where she doesn't have to roll in the dirt with the stupid no class clown posse.
“Eine kleine ketchupmusik” is one of my favorite Jeffisms ever. No competition from Mozart, who of course had the disadvantage of not having ketchup & the hurler in chief on his timeline. On the other hand….
I can see a video with a lot of ketchup pies in the face. Slo mo ketchup bottles flying through the air. Elon Musk tripping Trump and watching him fall into a vat of ketchup, brushing his hands and walking away.
When I tried to use AI (Microsoft version) to create the picture you described so vividly, Kathleen, I was denied. Apparently, they don’t allow you to use the tool in any way that would disparage the Bloated Yam of Scam. Can you believe that? First amendment and all that stuff is just window dressing? In the 21st Century? 1950’s, come on down!
I've been a prosecutor for 30 years. With very few exceptions, the people I have met and worked with over the years become prosecutors because they want to serve the public without regard to status or wealth. I'm not surprised by this development.
The fight at this point has been reduced to a simple binary: Those who believe in the rule of law, and those who do not. FedSoc conservative, ACLU liberal, these things no longer matter nearly as much as a simple belief that we are a nation of laws, not of men (as the saying goes).
I have a serious query though. Agree it's an integrity move to refuse the directive but why offer resignation? Doesn't the idea of staying and being a stick in the mud, making them fire you (wrongful termination on bondi after Sassoon being privy to the quid pro quo and reporting it in detail in writing to bondi?) yeild more noise and attention to Adams guilt and create pressure for Hochul to kick him to the curb, or something meaningful?They made it super easy and just cleared the deck for the next person who has no privilege or balls?
If my boss asked me to do something like this I would quit immediately because working for a boss like that would be impossible. Also, they would have fired her 5 seconds after her refusal, and she wouldn't have been able to write that bangin' resignation letter.
I totally get that there's no working with or for bove and this doj, but she could have just ended the corrective letter to bondi with "I'll see you tomorrow afternoon to discuss" and let bondi have egg on her face for firing her, then everyone after that resigns in protest. It was inevitable she would be removed, but it's not a threat if you are doing the dirty part for them. I get that she includes it because she didn't want to be fired for cause (insubordination) but bringing wrongful termination against DOJ for a suspect order might have been a smart move. It's like, she wanted to maintain her integrity but not really hold their feet to the fire legally - i think it was a missed opportunity.
There’s a chasm between defending Trump in court because every defendant deserves representation and doing Trump’s illegal bidding because Roberts’ Supreme Court said the President is above the law. Until that ruling is overturned by a different SC sometime in the future, America is a nation of [white] men and not laws.
Wishing more will bail on dear leader as they see the level of this clusterfuck of incompetence and corruption. Is it possible that circle of the finest people that the catsup tossing goon surrounds himself with will start to shrink a bit? There could be more like that general who said back in 2016 he didn't want any part of that shit sandwich. We just need to see more who are tired of the stench and that awful taste in their mouths.
1. I love that people are resigning rather than cave to Orange Fuckwit and his merry band of thieves.
2. The Gitmo debacle is really disturbing. I e won’t make a joke about people who are going to a hellhole, nobody knows what’s what. A fucking recipe for disaster. My heart goes out to those incarcerated there.
Before we declare Danielle Sassoon a saint; let's see if she takes any lessons from this experience and leaves the organization that provides us with "judges" like Aileen Cannon. The Federalist Society. If not her integrity falls short.
Sassoon's resignation, with that of her underlings, doesn't point to actual integrity. What it says to me is that she clearly sees a future for the country that will be Trump-free in which her so-called legacy will be judged for what it is. And she's too young to just retire.
50 years ago Republicans forced Tricky Dick out of office. Now the rethuglicans are so politically degenerate and cowardly they would be loath to force out the Orange Menace.
It's the Pro-Apartheid Fascists Party. King Shitpants is running his administration like a Mob boss. His American Apartheid Oligarchs are his soldiers and captains. The Mafia has a name for ass kissers, cigarette holders. My dad's father was a cigarette holder for the Mafia. My great grandmother was a madame in a speak easy in Chicago. They were rum runners during probation. Nice family. 😵💫 His loyalists are his cigarette holders.
That sounds about right. My husband's grandfather ran book out of their house. They had a wiring system hooked up to bells as a warning signal to cover shit up.
Mine were not decent. Except, my mom's side. They were just regular people. But, the other side was batshit fucking crazy. Holy fuck, I mean really crazy.
I'm a little jealous. My mother's side is dirt farmers. My dad's, carpenters building forts in the West for Manifest Destiny and the eradication of those pesky natives. 🥴
Families! I hear ya. I recently learned some of my German ancestors came here 1609. I was told they were pastors and farmers. The Italian and Irish ones came here in around 1898. But, was interesting when my sister did her DNA test it showed 2% Asian and 2% African. I don't know if the German ancestors owned slaves or what the deal was. The only thing I found was some fought for the Union. I think about it often.
We now have the most unqualified, sycophantic people in charge of the United States in our history.
I wonder lately if the GOP Senators that approved all of these appointments have ANY sense of shame or dignity. They have children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and dare I say, because some of them are ancient, great-great grandchildren that will be living through the hell that they are creating by not standing up for the constitution and using their god given brains to see exactly what's going on here. It truly baffles me to think they have no "end game' thoughts about what they are doing. Is it all to keep the peace with Trump or are they really that evil?
Same, Jayme, same. I am totally baffled. But all I can come up with is the checks must be impressive and easily cashed, or they've been physically threatened. And just this week that lower than scum, POS, McConnell votes no with the dems. Too late Mitch.
Yeah, the Turtle gets a spine the second that it will do absolutely NOTHING at all to help. What a miserable piece of human refuse he is. Do you think you’ll go to heaven now, incompetent MAGAT fool?
He still doesn't have a spine. He's retiring. What does he care if he pisses off MAGAs. He sure cared when it really mattered - we wouldn't have Trump now and the judges we have if Moscow Mitch showed his spine a couple of years ago. Not impressed with his vote. It doesn't change his s***** legacy.
I am just numb to all of this. I guess that's the point, but there seems to be no stopping this.
Unless and until the Republicans in the legislature develop some spine, and take the courage growing hormones, there is virtually nothing that can be done.
Well, I guess there is, but that would take the population taking to the streets and likely escalating to armed confrontation, but with Hegseth at DoD, and an increasingly pliant officer corps, this will mean citizens vs. military.
Alas, the Dems have literally no power to save us. They can jump up and down, they can go on tv and podcasts, they can talk to the press. But they have 0 power. There’s fuck-all that they can do.
To affect change will require 3 Republicans in the house, and 4 in the senate to grow a spine, and as we are seeing with the confirmations, there is no will to claim the power that the constitution grants them.
And no, I am not confident that the midterms in 26 will alter the dynamic.
Who says we will be able to vote? And if we do, will the machines be fixed? I think thinking that we will continue to have free and fair elections in the future, is quite wishful thinking because what is going on now. The A-hole hasn't even been president for a month yet.
I dont know about the machines being fixed. Elon and his Russian hacker thugs kids have figured out another way of hacking...in theory, the final results get uploaded or finalized via internet, and that is where the fraud takes place. Some of the election results were uploaded via star link and , well, there's that.
I may not be right on target there but it's something within that realm.
I agree with you. I have no technical skills (changing a light bulb is challenging for me - LOL), but I don't trust where the final votes end up anymore.
Why do we believe there will be free and fair (or any) elections in 2026? Musk will be hopping around funding primary candidates of his preference. We are the frogs in the simmering water. With each affront and transgression and defiant act, we simply expect more and worse.
We have a gangster state now. Nobody in the world trusts us or is on our side (whatever that is this hour). This is what dictatorship looks like. The pogroms will begin shortly.
Bork had that shitty looking goatee, which was super out of place in that time and place. Most tightass conservatives are clean shaven. On their faces, I mean
His nomination was a reward for doing Nixon's dirty work. To this day many Republicans cannot get over the Democrats having torpedoed him. Like the Nazis they absolve any of their own who is "just doing their job".
Seems that the US Attorney's office was also preparing to file new charges against Adams, including obstruction, destroying evidence, and ordering people to lie to the FBI. Apparently Governor Hochul is considering removing Adams, as she has the authority to do. What a shit show.
Danielle Sassoon has more balls than fifty-two U.S. Senators. Eric Adams is a gonif of Adam Clayton Powell dimensions (and that dude has a street named after him!). He has actually declared that he might run for mayor as a Republican next time around (that is, if he can avoid an extended stay in the Graybar Hotel--although that didn't stop He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named). And while we're on the subject, whatever happened to that addition $83M he was supposed to pay E. Jean Carroll? She'll see that after he pays the hundreds of contractors he's wantonly stiffed over the years. Kudos to the Judicial branch which has shown considerably more moxie than 90% of the Democratic Party ("When they go low we say 'Thank-you sir, may we have another?'").
from the resignation letter of Hagan Scotten —
“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
— which of course dropped FIFTEEN MINUTES *AFTER* I PUBLISHED MY POST
https://bsky.app/profile/katiephang.bsky.social/post/3li5ks2mqfc24
Standing freaking ovation!
Hagan Scotten - a new American hero!
Also a Kavanaugh clerk at the Supreme Court.
Is it possible that Sassoon was really more amped to go after Adams because he was a democrat? Interesting that he immediately talked about joining the GOP before he makes his next run. Just not ready to trust that someone as conservative as Sassoon is some kind of saint. Once bitten...
Jeff, did Ms Pfang give you credit "as first reported by"? You should contact her.
here's something I opted not to include in my post. Josh Marshall claims that Sassoon's resignation letter to Bove "reveals that she witnessed Emil Bove negotiating an explicit quid-pro-quo in which Adams agreed to provide political and policy assistance to Donald Trump in exchange for dropping the criminal charges against him." I've read the letter. I don't see what Josh sees. maybe I'm missing it because it's cloaked in thick legalese that I couldn't penetrate.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/monday-changed-everything-gov-hochul-needs-to-remove-eric-adams-from-office
is it this?
"The legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.” JM § 1-8.100. But Adams has argued in substance and Mr. Bove appears prepared to concede?that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration's policy priorities."
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/24535586a908999e/3801d435-full.pdf
Seems like a lot of lawyers at the Government Integrity office have integrity. Who saw that coming????!!!!
On a more elemental level, don't try to take a bone away from a junkyard dog. These lawyers were drooling over a chance to take down a Democratic Big City mayor. Bove, you got 'em mad.
All of us here are Networkesque “ mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore.” Kathleen!!
Well, they're not on the Supreme Court, so it's probably still required for them.
Looks like a legalese quid pro quo to me
Ditto HI2, my law degree appeared as my “prize” in a box of Cracker Jacks though!!
There’s this nagging idea about right and wrong. Very little discussed in today’s news coverage. Firing the good cops (inspector generals) to cover up theft and bribery and corruption is wrong. Enabling criminality is wrong. Nice to see someone take a stand against immorality every once in awhile.
Excellent point Burke!!
It looks to me like it’s the first two paragraphs on page 3, plus the footnote.
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Quid pro quo
supposedly Bove collected notes that people were writing in that meeting that chronicled his remarks. nothing sinister there...
Just like the Gilded Toadstool®s translators notes from his meetings with PootyPoot in Helsinki.
Yeah. Keeping lawyers from making notes is like telling them not to breathe. Nuts.
Well, I hope someone had their phone on, then. . .
Not supposedly - it is in Sassoon’s letter
At that meeting, I believe that Bove took away all the notes that were being written by a junior US attorney. So yes, this is where the illegality happened. I hope the DOJ Public Corruption attorneys resign en masse. Maybe they will find a Bork in the DOJ somewhere to do the dirty deed.
Bumper sticker after Bork did the deed: IMPEACH THE COX SACKER!
I remember that bumper sticker!
MAGAland is full of Borks
Yes, it sounds like the Muppet character "the Swedish Chef", when you count them off, "Bork, Bork, bork, bork!
Jay Kuo will probably weigh in on this too
He has. Check it out.
Thanks for posting! I am a subscriber of his too and love him!
I think at least part of the basis is that this is not a dismissal with prejudice. The implication is that if Adams doesn't toe the line, back come the charges. So the quid or quo, not sure which, was promising to toe the line despite City ordinances to the contrary
Elon Musk is indeed a fucked-up fool.
At the Oval Office press conference Tuesday, Musk expressed irritation that the federal government was paying Social Security benefits to people who are 150 years old. Clear proof that the bureaucracy was stupider than even MAGA thought!
But wait! A reader on Paul Krugman’s excellent Substack explained that when a Social Security recipient’s birthday is unknown, it is filled in as 1875 as a placeholder. Just speculating here, but there are plenty of immigrants who do not know their exact birth date, but the taxman doth know the dates that Federal Social Security withholding is taken out of their paychecks.
Wanna see a picture of 150 year-old Musk?
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/muskrat-droppings-no-1
May I remind you of a previous stinky pile of Musk shit when de facto President Musk informed us that USAID had sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. Such waste! Such fraud! Such abuse! Turns out, the condoms were sent to a town called Gaza in Mozambique for the purposes of AIDS prevention.
At his Tuesday press conference, Musk opined, “Would the American taxpayer really be wanting to do that, send condoms to Mozambique?” Keep in mind that according to the State Department, AIDS Prevention programs are supposed to be exempt from DOGE cuts.
Moral: Both de facto POTUS and pro forma POTUS seem poorly informed about many details of government.
Remember: This is a coup, and this is a war. A coup is a sudden illegal movement to seize power. World War II began with two coups: Germany attacked Poland without warning, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. Never forget that both countries ended up with the shit bombed out of them.
I think you nailed it, Kathleen. Most, if not all of these prevarications are the result of low IQ individuals attempting to understand the written word, and puking it back up in a thoroughly misconstrued manner. Only idiotic MAGATS will believe these falsehoods…but that’s the intent.
All the idiots have to do is plant a seed. It will grow in the fertile minds of fools.
Would someone please give musk some of those condoms. The world does not need any more of his offspring.
( no offense to his children already here)
He has started his own Aryan race.
and IT WILL TAKE a willing to die as fact!
the other end of the spectrum IZ!
one6 was NOT a picnic it WAZ an INSURRECTION!
donnie boy has decided 'i will be king even if i have to kill them all!'
p.s. that's what dik-taters DO!
Love the old man Elmo image!Too funny!!!
That's fantastic. Next up, Elon steps on rake.
A rake with sharpened knives on it. Michelle Obama pokes her head out of a closet and a big smile slowly breaks over her face.
This coup is going to make sure that our votes will not count in two years. They're also itching for angry protests that can be put down with force, and giving the fanta menace the opportunity to invoke the insurrection act and/or use our military against civilians. Illegal orders will be followed by MAGA soldiers and illegal militias. Of course, I hope I am wrong.
I apologize. It's one thing to air one's anxieties in public. It's another to assume that no one is doing anything good in response to this shit show. That's complying in advance with the fascists. Don't give up the ship!
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Let's not give in to despair just yet. Instead, get out and do the things so you can meet other people doing the things. On President's Day, many across this country are planning on holding signs and coming together to protest this BS. Either go to your state's seat of govt or go to your local town hall. Bring signs. Bring patriotic flags. Sing! Protest! Bring cookies and hot beverages! Cheer every car that honks in solidarity with you! Talk amongst yourselves!
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"Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! We willna be fooled agin!!!" (If you haven't read about the Nac Mac Feegles in Sir Terry Pratchett's books, what are you waiting for?)
I would not call Germany attacking Poland or Japan attacking Pearl Harbor "coups."
What is happening in the U.S. right now is an *attempted* coup.
not strictly a coup, but there is a strong family resemblance. An unanticipated, illegal, overthrow by force.
They are well aware of this. Remember pre election they told us that they would only take total political power in the US ‘peacefully’ if we let them. The weasel words of a rapist and rapists, by definition, have no ability to recognise or respect moral, physical, geographical or legal boundaries. They inhabit a worldview where ‘real’ men and women just take what they want.
Kathleen: you are being gracious by calling them poorly informed. Stupid & cruel dickhead is more like it.
Just an understatement.
Props to Sassoon for quitting as US Attorney. Now let's see her quit the Federalist Society, which has fucked up the Judicial branch enormously.
But then she won’t get invited to all those awesome parties.
The dogs at the Federalist Society seem to have caught the car - trump’s DOJ just defied the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding a Federal statute to remove access to the TikTok App. The App is now back in Apple and Google shops.
Pammy Bondi just overruled the US Congress and Supreme Court. 😳
Taxation without representation. If I recall correctly, we fought a war over that.
“eine klein ketchupmusik”……would love to hear that song! Sassoon is a hero as are the rest who are resisting this fascist administration! Kristi Noem….only in it for the photo ops. Happy fucking Friday.
Sassoon is the rare person in that ultra-right sphere with a modicum of principle and perhaps an eye to her legacy. All these shameless, spineless assholes who confirmed the absolute worst cabinet in history have shit on their own place in history.
No worries, there will be no history.
Thus the seizure of the National Archives—learned their lesson from the meticulous Nazis.
I was thinking the other day about ‘Whipping Peter’, the Civil War - era photograph of a slave’s back, disfigured with scars from the lash. That, along with much other media regarding slavery, is now in the National Archives. Just as books about slavery are being banned, when will all our history be completely white-washed?
We need back-up copies of everything!
The National Park Service collaborate and work with the National Archives to preserve historic records. We can see the beginnings of NPS already being disabled.
If they get their way. Another thing we have to preserve
affirmative!
there iz NO yesterday today iz questionable tomorrow? what'z that?
retaliation will get us many casualties ... both sides
YES THEY HAVE NO RULES! DEMOCRACY DOES! becoming maga like erases democracy. don't get me wrong people but you won't find me in the kumbaya choir or on the front lines caught up in the 'machoman' theatrics of war.
you will find me in the streets educating! knowledge isz the power that could save our lives
That's the plan.
Yes! The Republican senators can take a lesson from Sassoon.
How is it that she, a mere woman, is not afraid? I guess Putin doesn't have anything on it? A stand up person, with nothing to be ashamed of.
Note the people with spines are also the smartest ones who have a future elsewhere (or a nice retirement) they need to get started on. Unlike the clown car of dicks like noem and RFK and Patel and hegs and that omb asshat - the thing all these people have in common is that they are exponential POSERS. Sassoon apparently has a clue and can take her marbles and go play somewhere else where she doesn't have to roll in the dirt with the stupid no class clown posse.
“Eine kleine ketchupmusik” is one of my favorite Jeffisms ever. No competition from Mozart, who of course had the disadvantage of not having ketchup & the hurler in chief on his timeline. On the other hand….
I can see a video with a lot of ketchup pies in the face. Slo mo ketchup bottles flying through the air. Elon Musk tripping Trump and watching him fall into a vat of ketchup, brushing his hands and walking away.
When I tried to use AI (Microsoft version) to create the picture you described so vividly, Kathleen, I was denied. Apparently, they don’t allow you to use the tool in any way that would disparage the Bloated Yam of Scam. Can you believe that? First amendment and all that stuff is just window dressing? In the 21st Century? 1950’s, come on down!
Yam of Scam. Perfect. Kudos to you.
ANTICIPATION by Carly Simon ?
They are the Taliban of America
I've been a prosecutor for 30 years. With very few exceptions, the people I have met and worked with over the years become prosecutors because they want to serve the public without regard to status or wealth. I'm not surprised by this development.
The fight at this point has been reduced to a simple binary: Those who believe in the rule of law, and those who do not. FedSoc conservative, ACLU liberal, these things no longer matter nearly as much as a simple belief that we are a nation of laws, not of men (as the saying goes).
'Without fear or favor' meets Donald Trump and his cult.
I have a serious query though. Agree it's an integrity move to refuse the directive but why offer resignation? Doesn't the idea of staying and being a stick in the mud, making them fire you (wrongful termination on bondi after Sassoon being privy to the quid pro quo and reporting it in detail in writing to bondi?) yeild more noise and attention to Adams guilt and create pressure for Hochul to kick him to the curb, or something meaningful?They made it super easy and just cleared the deck for the next person who has no privilege or balls?
If my boss asked me to do something like this I would quit immediately because working for a boss like that would be impossible. Also, they would have fired her 5 seconds after her refusal, and she wouldn't have been able to write that bangin' resignation letter.
I totally get that there's no working with or for bove and this doj, but she could have just ended the corrective letter to bondi with "I'll see you tomorrow afternoon to discuss" and let bondi have egg on her face for firing her, then everyone after that resigns in protest. It was inevitable she would be removed, but it's not a threat if you are doing the dirty part for them. I get that she includes it because she didn't want to be fired for cause (insubordination) but bringing wrongful termination against DOJ for a suspect order might have been a smart move. It's like, she wanted to maintain her integrity but not really hold their feet to the fire legally - i think it was a missed opportunity.
There’s a chasm between defending Trump in court because every defendant deserves representation and doing Trump’s illegal bidding because Roberts’ Supreme Court said the President is above the law. Until that ruling is overturned by a different SC sometime in the future, America is a nation of [white] men and not laws.
I admire the courage of those who quit rather than fold. However, their spaces will now be filled with incompetent fellators of Trump.
well yeah, there's that. as I put in my post, "there's always a shithead"
Wishing more will bail on dear leader as they see the level of this clusterfuck of incompetence and corruption. Is it possible that circle of the finest people that the catsup tossing goon surrounds himself with will start to shrink a bit? There could be more like that general who said back in 2016 he didn't want any part of that shit sandwich. We just need to see more who are tired of the stench and that awful taste in their mouths.
I think these resignations provide a profile in courage and template for others to stiffen their spines.
1. I love that people are resigning rather than cave to Orange Fuckwit and his merry band of thieves.
2. The Gitmo debacle is really disturbing. I e won’t make a joke about people who are going to a hellhole, nobody knows what’s what. A fucking recipe for disaster. My heart goes out to those incarcerated there.
Kay-el, I agree. This evil from trump must end!! Someone needs to go on and report on what is happening. I'm sick about it.
Before we declare Danielle Sassoon a saint; let's see if she takes any lessons from this experience and leaves the organization that provides us with "judges" like Aileen Cannon. The Federalist Society. If not her integrity falls short.
Sassoon's resignation, with that of her underlings, doesn't point to actual integrity. What it says to me is that she clearly sees a future for the country that will be Trump-free in which her so-called legacy will be judged for what it is. And she's too young to just retire.
Does the Loose Cannon still hear cases, or was she just brought in to get the Bloated Yam of Scam OFF?
Yes, unfortunately, she still does hear cases. At least until trump nominates her for the supreme court.
Chris, I cry for America.
"she was all ‘chow down on every dick in the bag, bro." 😂 YES!
So, every now and then, someone with a spine and a bit of integrity steps up.
That's hopeful.
Geeze...this all makes me kinda miss the Watergate shenanigans.
50 years ago Republicans forced Tricky Dick out of office. Now the rethuglicans are so politically degenerate and cowardly they would be loath to force out the Orange Menace.
But Susan, this is the new and improved American Nazi party!
It's the Pro-Apartheid Fascists Party. King Shitpants is running his administration like a Mob boss. His American Apartheid Oligarchs are his soldiers and captains. The Mafia has a name for ass kissers, cigarette holders. My dad's father was a cigarette holder for the Mafia. My great grandmother was a madame in a speak easy in Chicago. They were rum runners during probation. Nice family. 😵💫 His loyalists are his cigarette holders.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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MIKE! LOL!
Holy crap Lisa…write a fucking book about your family!
Oh, I got stories. 😅😅
My late husband’s grandmothers house was a speakeasy and had a ghost called Cosmo.
That sounds about right. My husband's grandfather ran book out of their house. They had a wiring system hooked up to bells as a warning signal to cover shit up.
What an interesting family. I have NO family stories. Very nice decent people, but BORING.
Mine were not decent. Except, my mom's side. They were just regular people. But, the other side was batshit fucking crazy. Holy fuck, I mean really crazy.
I'm a little jealous. My mother's side is dirt farmers. My dad's, carpenters building forts in the West for Manifest Destiny and the eradication of those pesky natives. 🥴
Families! I hear ya. I recently learned some of my German ancestors came here 1609. I was told they were pastors and farmers. The Italian and Irish ones came here in around 1898. But, was interesting when my sister did her DNA test it showed 2% Asian and 2% African. I don't know if the German ancestors owned slaves or what the deal was. The only thing I found was some fought for the Union. I think about it often.
OMERTA !
Lots of “dick eating” going on in our White House.
Me too, but mostly because we know how that ended. And not in civil war, just the party pulling back and saying that's enough to get him to resign.
What a country.
We now have the most unqualified, sycophantic people in charge of the United States in our history.
I wonder lately if the GOP Senators that approved all of these appointments have ANY sense of shame or dignity. They have children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and dare I say, because some of them are ancient, great-great grandchildren that will be living through the hell that they are creating by not standing up for the constitution and using their god given brains to see exactly what's going on here. It truly baffles me to think they have no "end game' thoughts about what they are doing. Is it all to keep the peace with Trump or are they really that evil?
Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate.
Same, Jayme, same. I am totally baffled. But all I can come up with is the checks must be impressive and easily cashed, or they've been physically threatened. And just this week that lower than scum, POS, McConnell votes no with the dems. Too late Mitch.
Yeah, the Turtle gets a spine the second that it will do absolutely NOTHING at all to help. What a miserable piece of human refuse he is. Do you think you’ll go to heaven now, incompetent MAGAT fool?
He still doesn't have a spine. He's retiring. What does he care if he pisses off MAGAs. He sure cared when it really mattered - we wouldn't have Trump now and the judges we have if Moscow Mitch showed his spine a couple of years ago. Not impressed with his vote. It doesn't change his s***** legacy.
I despise McConnell and that pos Lindsey Graham. Goddamn , I'm sick of this shit.
It’s mind boggling that anyone could vote for either one…ever.
" They're EATING the CHECKS, they're EATING the BALANCES ! "
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Seems like he knows he's going to die sooner rather than later and would prefer to not be in the worst section of hell.
Sorry Mitch, nothing can save you now.
Jayme: just remember… it’s Party OVER
Country.
I am just numb to all of this. I guess that's the point, but there seems to be no stopping this.
Unless and until the Republicans in the legislature develop some spine, and take the courage growing hormones, there is virtually nothing that can be done.
Well, I guess there is, but that would take the population taking to the streets and likely escalating to armed confrontation, but with Hegseth at DoD, and an increasingly pliant officer corps, this will mean citizens vs. military.
I picked a bad week to quit drinking...
Geoff, if we wait for Republicons to save us, we might as well curl up in the fetal position and prepare to die.
Alas, the Dems have literally no power to save us. They can jump up and down, they can go on tv and podcasts, they can talk to the press. But they have 0 power. There’s fuck-all that they can do.
To affect change will require 3 Republicans in the house, and 4 in the senate to grow a spine, and as we are seeing with the confirmations, there is no will to claim the power that the constitution grants them.
And no, I am not confident that the midterms in 26 will alter the dynamic.
Who says we will be able to vote? And if we do, will the machines be fixed? I think thinking that we will continue to have free and fair elections in the future, is quite wishful thinking because what is going on now. The A-hole hasn't even been president for a month yet.
I dont know about the machines being fixed. Elon and his Russian hacker thugs kids have figured out another way of hacking...in theory, the final results get uploaded or finalized via internet, and that is where the fraud takes place. Some of the election results were uploaded via star link and , well, there's that.
I may not be right on target there but it's something within that realm.
I agree with you. I have no technical skills (changing a light bulb is challenging for me - LOL), but I don't trust where the final votes end up anymore.
Why do we believe there will be free and fair (or any) elections in 2026? Musk will be hopping around funding primary candidates of his preference. We are the frogs in the simmering water. With each affront and transgression and defiant act, we simply expect more and worse.
Do you think that the Republicans are apprehensive at all of the prospect of another "free an fair" election?
You can always backslide. No shame! Whatever it takes.
We have a gangster state now. Nobody in the world trusts us or is on our side (whatever that is this hour). This is what dictatorship looks like. The pogroms will begin shortly.
Bork showed his lack of ethics and principles, which I am sure helped sink his nomination to SCOTUS. Just desserts for a POS
Is he the guy that looks like he has never had a bath in his life? Is that Bork or was that Bjork? I'm confused.
Bork had that shitty looking goatee, which was super out of place in that time and place. Most tightass conservatives are clean shaven. On their faces, I mean
Ok. I remember him. He looked filthy and probably stank. But wait! Stench is in now, right?
Bork is dead but his soul will stink on forever.
Bjork is adorable, I've loved her since the SUGAR CUBES. Uh oh, now trmp will want to steal Iceland.
His nomination was a reward for doing Nixon's dirty work. To this day many Republicans cannot get over the Democrats having torpedoed him. Like the Nazis they absolve any of their own who is "just doing their job".
His nomination was sunk because it was alleged he'd smoked ... cannabis!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/03/30/facial-hair-pot-and-video-rentals-the-strange-details-unearthed-when-vetting-supreme-court-nominees/
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Seems that the US Attorney's office was also preparing to file new charges against Adams, including obstruction, destroying evidence, and ordering people to lie to the FBI. Apparently Governor Hochul is considering removing Adams, as she has the authority to do. What a shit show.
Then she should do it immediately! Or does she, too, fear retribution?
I'm not too sure about Hochal
bring back Cuomo!
Neither am I, but the pressure on her is increasing. We'll see.
Danielle Sassoon has more balls than fifty-two U.S. Senators. Eric Adams is a gonif of Adam Clayton Powell dimensions (and that dude has a street named after him!). He has actually declared that he might run for mayor as a Republican next time around (that is, if he can avoid an extended stay in the Graybar Hotel--although that didn't stop He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named). And while we're on the subject, whatever happened to that addition $83M he was supposed to pay E. Jean Carroll? She'll see that after he pays the hundreds of contractors he's wantonly stiffed over the years. Kudos to the Judicial branch which has shown considerably more moxie than 90% of the Democratic Party ("When they go low we say 'Thank-you sir, may we have another?'").