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Aid to Ukraine has passed the House of Representatives.
re: #1 Dr Lizardo
Aid to Ukraine has passed the House of Representatives.
About F-ing time. Now lets get it past the Senate and on POTUS desk Monday morning if not sooner.
Isn’t Rand Paul promising to fuck it all up.
re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus
Isn’t Rand Paul promising to fuck it all up.
He can only delay it, not stop it.
re: #1 Dr Lizardo
Aid to Ukraine has passed the House of Representatives.
It appears that more Rep voted nay it than yea. Who’s Hastert?
re: #6 No Malarkey!
At this point that’s just as bad imo.
re: #8 GlutenFreeJesus
At this point that’s just as bad imo.
He can’t delay it long. I think Schumer is going to have them work all weekend to get it passed.
What distinguishes Chris Quinn from every other editor of an MSM newsroom is not so much that he’s brave (although he is) it’s that he’s honest. Let that sink in. presswatchers.org/2024/04/an-i…
— Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) (@froomkin.bsky.social) 2024-04-19T16:38:34.015Z
Final House vote on Ukraine aid:
UKRAINE AID PASSES HOUSE
311-112-1
R:
101 Y
112 N
D:
210 Y
0 N
(secret billionaire meeting)
WALGREENS CEO: ok so the vote passes, whenever we fuck up we blame shoplifters and minimum wage increases, right?
LOWES CEO: yep
TARGET CEO: got it
RED LOBSTER CEO (in the corner shoveling shrimp into mouth): mmhmm
— Rebecca Watson (@rebeccawatson.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T15:07:05.666Z
It’s happening
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T18:01:38.358Z
A bill to send confiscated Russian funds to Ukraine passed by an even larger margin.
re: #16 KingKenrod
Nobody remembers what happened with Endless Buffalo?
Why Trump, the GOP, Fox News, and your Republican friends are desperate to make you forget how badly Trump handled COVID, which alone should ban him from ever holding public office again. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covi…
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T15:59:44.009Z
re: #17 Charles Johnson
I want him to at least get angry enough that he gets his ass cuffed and tossed in a cell.
Anything beyond that would be a welcome bonus.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
He’ll have a busy week next week. Maybe he can stay awake.
3. Monday, April 22, 2024
NY Election Interference: Trump reply due by 10 AM in support of his Article 78 petition against Justice Merchan for allegedly exceeding his jurisdiction and authority, relating to, inter alia, recusal, immunity, and motions procedures—possible hearing to take place later that day, time TBDNY Civil Fraud: Hearing at 10 AM on Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) and defendants motion to justify KSIC as surety on the $175 million undertaking, set aside gov’t notice of exception to surety, and award costs incurred by the application
4. Tuesday, April 23, 2024
NY Election Interference: Hearing at 9:30 AM requiring Trump to show cause as to why he should not be held in contempt for violating the court gag order5. Thursday, April 25, 2024
DC Trump Case: Oral argument in Trump presidential immunity appeal before the US Supreme Court
re: #13 Jay C
Final House vote on Ukraine aid:
UKRAINE AID PASSES HOUSE
311-112-1
R:
101 Y
112 ND:
210 Y
0 N
But why did Dingell vote Present?
re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus
Isn’t Rand Paul promising to fuck it all up.
Maybe his neighbor can threaten to kick his ass if he does.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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It should not have been necessary to state that. It’s the pathetic state of the press today that required it be said.
Fwiw
Anna Paulina Luna says she has been told that as soon as a Motion to Vacate is brought to the floor, at least two moderate Republicans will resign immediately rather than wait until end of their term to flip the House to the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/DyXNDTXrJu
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 19, 2024
feel good news of the day
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-20T18:43:41.000Z
re: #30 PhillyPretzel ✅
Beautiful pictures. I personally like the second one.
I’m quite happy with that one too.
Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
bsky.app/profile/did:…
— Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T18:04:47.404Z
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Of course THAT’s the part he’d get the most bent about.
re: #32 goddamnedfrank
Well, actually… nope, didn’t happen, unfortunately.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Talk about a feel good story! Damn. I feel great after reading that!
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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re: #17 Charles Johnson
As a prosecutor, my strategy in the courtroom would be to make Donald Trump so angry that he dies
I watched a “federal protected witness” suffer a heart attack under cross examination by the attorney I worked for. The witness subsequently died, and our client walked.
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh are we doing photos today? Here’s a few shots from a hike I was on about a week ago:
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Nice work!
re: #21 Charles Johnson
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Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember
Covid deaths per 100,000:
US: 341.11
Canada: 135.23
There’s no reason for such a massive discrepancy
re: #9 goddamnedfrank
I graduated from university 40 years ago and I remember being disappointed that our commencement speaker was the head of the University of Texas system board of regents. I don’t remember the guy. I do remember that he used his bully pulpit to get us to vote for a/some constitutional amendment(s) on the 1984 ballot. No, I don’t know what they were, and it wasn’t until I went to law school that I understood far more clearly why the Texas constitution is so fucked up.
But I definitely remember what a buzz kill this guy was.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Yeah, if he didn’t coat himself in yellow-orange spackle every day, maybe he’d get better courtroom drawings. Also, I might note, if he hired a aesthetician, they could likely do a MUCH better job in getting the color on and making it look decent. But no, he doesn’t want anyone to know what everyone knows, which is that he’s coated in foundation and he does it himself.
re: #44 mmmirele
And then there are the expressions he makes and the colorful sacks he drapes over himself.
Paying Trump’s goons and cronies to give their reports a false sense of “balance” doesn’t seem to be working out.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-20T19:33:31.000Z
I did a quick dive into Adderall withdrawal symptoms. The ones that stood out were: irritability, fatigue, shivering, foul body odor, GI tract problems including diarrhea and smelly farts all being reported. Sound familiar?
Let’s see if Trump keeps complaining about how cold the room is while dispensing smelly farts between falling asleep.
re: #43 mmmirele
I graduated from university 40 years ago and I remember being disappointed that our commencement speaker was the head of the University of Texas system board of regents. I don’t remember the guy. I do remember that he used his bully pulpit to get us to vote for a/some constitutional amendment(s) on the 1984 ballot. No, I don’t know what they were, and it wasn’t until I went to law school that I understood far more clearly why the Texas constitution is so fucked up.
But I definitely remember what a buzz kill this guy was.
Graduation speakers are a notorious crap shoot. Someone pointed out that these are the same kids who had their high school graduations disrupted by COVID in 2020 and now they’re being fucked over by the racist institutional backlash to the 2020 BLM protests.
When Trump goes back to court next week, his sphincter will be clenched tighter than a snare drum.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-20T19:38:03.000Z
re: #51 Charles Johnson
His defense team can only hope.
re: #48 silverdolphin
I did a quick dive into Adderall withdrawal symptoms. The ones that stood out were: irritability, fatigue, shivering, foul body odor, GI tract problems including diarrhea and smelly farts all being reported. Sound familiar?
Let’s see if Trump keeps complaining about how cold the room is while dispensing smelly farts between falling asleep.
Or making the unmistakable sound of a diarrhea tsunami filling his undergarments.
That’ll clear the courtroom in ten seconds flat. 😄
re: #51 Charles Johnson
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If the sphincter is that tight, the court reporter would type [sound of Trump-et]
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
Or making the unmistakable sound of a diarrhea tsunami filling his undergarments.
That’ll clear the courtroom in ten seconds flat. 😄
I expect they have him wearing diapers but what happens in court if someone really needs to exit for the bathroom? DO their lawyers have a sidebar with the judge declaring a short recess?
re: #55 silverdolphin
I expect they have him wearing diapers but what happens in court if someone really needs to exit for the bathroom? DO their lawyers have a sidebar with the judge declaring a short recess?
That’s a good question. I have no idea how a court would deal with such a situation. I’d imagine asking the judge for a short recess should work.
But things like that can come up on you fast, after all. By the time Trump’s attorneys make it to the bench to ask for a recess, it could already be far too late.
With that, I’m calling it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
When it comes to Trump we all know he’s full of shit!
re: #55 silverdolphin
I expect they have him wearing diapers but what happens in court if someone really needs to exit for the bathroom? DO their lawyers have a sidebar with the judge declaring a short recess?
This has to happen frequently in regular longer trials. So they all have to have procedures in place to handle the situation, i.e. have to take bathroom breaks.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
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Clenched so hard that if you stuck a lump of coal in his ass, in two weeks, you’d have a diamond? 💎
re: #61 Teukka
rofl. DT would probably call it a “miracle” and try to sell it.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
This has to happen frequently in regular longer trials. So they all have to have procedures in place to handle the situation, i.e. have to take bathroom breaks.
Pity the Secret Service agent who has to monitor Trump’s trial bathroom breaks.
That’s gotta be worse than the NFL representative (usually a retired DEA Agent) who monitors player urine tests.
re: #63 BeenHereAwhile
Behind the dark glasses, no one can see your eyes watering.
That should make his legal team happy.
— Forever Louise Brooks (@foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T19:44:49.204Z
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re: #67 Teukka
Probably. It is difficult to predict what DT will do.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
This has to happen frequently in regular longer trials. So they all have to have procedures in place to handle the situation, i.e. have to take bathroom breaks.
So I did a shallow dive and yes, if the lawyer or defendent needs a bathroom break, they can request it from the judge. A juror can raise their had and ask for a break. IN both cases, the court proceedings are stopped.
And a judge will be aware that this can be used as a stalling techniqie and can say no if they suspect that is so,
re: #60 Belafon
This is moving almost due east:
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7-9 pm here. It’s been perfect for yard work today.
re: #47 Charles Johnson
Pick a set of addicts and deliver to them, CNN. You’re trying to serve fine wine in a dive bar.
I wrote a bad joke today while riding my bike:
What do you call a popular female singer in a radiology lab?
MRIaha Carey.
Your welcome.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
I want him to at least get angry enough that he gets his ass cuffed and tossed in a cell.
Anything beyond that would be a welcome bonus.
I’m afraid I’m not a nice person. It bothers me a bit.
I do not want a medical emergency to let the Lord of the Trumpets off the hook. Much too easy.
I want him to sit there, day after day, in the narcissist’s hell of a situation he can’t control, squirming with every humiliation that worms under his thin orange skin.
I want to see if the coverage and mockery will frustrate him into something so blatant that even Fox News has to report on it, spinning their frantic best.
I want to see what happens when they take away his cellphone.
Extra points if he spends even one night in a cell.
And if that means his lawyers have to put up with the unholy stench as well as their almost inevitable career consequences, oh well…
(Okay, I do feel sorry for everyone else in the courtroom on that count. Maybe they can bring in extra fans and spray Febreze around at every break.)
re: #74 CleverToad
I just want one thing: All his hair to fall out at once, in court.
re: #74 CleverToad
That does not make you a not nice person. it makes you one who craves justices. Which is righteous.
And that’s a nice thing.
re: #75 wrenchwench
I just want one thing: All his hair to fall out at once, in court.
Ooh, I like that!
re: #75 wrenchwench
I just want one thing: All his hair to fall out at once, in court.
Captured by his favorite courtroom artist.
re: #55 silverdolphin
I expect they have him wearing diapers but what happens in court if someone really needs to exit for the bathroom? DO their lawyers have a sidebar with the judge declaring a short recess?
And the best thing is that when - not if - it happens, it will be, ahem, leaked and we will all know about it.
I signed up as a free subscriber to Asha Rangappa’s The Freedom Academy. I wish I could support it as a paying member, but I do get the links to her Saturday podcasts, “It’s Complicated”, with Renato Mariotti, and her appearances on TV and some of her writing. Today I liked her short essay: The Manhattan courtroom is bursting Trump’s psychological bubble. Am quoting it here, privately, and can recommend TFA. [I also voted for Renato Mariotti for IL State Attorney General. He didn’t win. Sigh.]
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Amusing how Steve Jobs’ design advice was interpreted across Silicon Valley, including at Apple, as “we can make the customers want whatever crap we give them.” No! The point is that customers aren’t designers! That’s your job, to figure out what you can do that they’ll want.
— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T21:20:52.707Z
Every argument Trump makes for complete presidential immunity is an argument for Biden to do whatever he wants to Trump. It’s fun to think of the possibilities here.
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T19:49:16.466Z
re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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“Sergei, we need reinforcements and are running low on men. What shall we do?”
“Send in the women!”
Hi hi, I’m Rick and this is my art.
— Rick Schmitz (@rickschmitz.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T21:26:39.987Z
Here’s the code that takes a Bluesky URL, reads the page at that address, finds the “oembed” link inside that page’s DOM, and then uses that link to get the blockquote code from Bluesky that will then be transformed into an embedded post when the comment loads.
This uses PHP’s DOMDocument and DOMXPath classes to parse the Bluesky HTML and find the oembed link.
<?php
function blueskyEmbeds($text) {
return preg_replace_callback(
$GLOBALS['blueskyURLRegex'],
function($matches) {
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$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
$url = $xpath->evaluate("string(//link[@type='application/json+oembed']/@href)");
if ($url && $json = @file_get_contents($url)) {
$oembed = json_decode($json, true);
$html = trim(str_replace(['', ''], ['', "\n\n"], $oembed['html']));
$html = preg_replace('~(?:<script[^>]*></script>)~is', '', $html);
return $html;
}
}
return $matches[0];
},
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}re: #84 Charles Johnson
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It’s a great quote that succinctly says something important but, Henry Ford not only never said that and apparently Jobs never said that either.
Unusual case of adding 2 different authorities to make a quote sound better.
But he said things not too far away:
We have a lot of customers, and we have a lot of research into our installed base. We also watch industry trends pretty carefully. But in the end, for something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
This is how MAGA rigs elections. https://t.co/oz36Ym7PyZ
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 20, 2024
re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, 🤮 at that Trump/Punisher shirt.
re: #94 teleskiguy
I think that person has their account set to only show posts to logged in users.
When you click the Bluesky 3-dot menu, if the menu DOESN’T have an embed option it can’t be embedded.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
This has to happen frequently in regular longer trials. So they all have to have procedures in place to handle the situation, i.e. have to take bathroom breaks.
as i recall, when I did jury duty and got far enough into the process to where we met pretrial with the judge in the courtroom, they did mention a procedure by which a jury member could signal to the court that they were in urgent need of a brief recess. and i think it was actually less labored than trying to get the bailiff’s attention to pass a note.
re: #57 jaunte
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It’s getting damp out.
Please come my way. It’s already too hot for me. Ugh.
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
Love the bridge perspective.
re: #97 HRH Stanley Sea
Please come my way. It’s already too hot for me. Ugh.
Can I send you a couple of inches of snow from the Denver area? Would have to be quick, it’s melting and drying up already.
re: #75 wrenchwench
I just want one thing: All his hair to fall out at once, in court.
Someone has snuck a photo of his one side of very long hair hanging wet. Just do it you coward.
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