I just had a phone convo with my Italian-American cousin Kenny, who lives in Boston. He is a die hard MAGA believer. He was telling me all about how Antifa burned Portland to the ground, and he knows it's true because he saw the video on Faux News. I told him I have friends in Portland who say everything is fine and nothing burned down, but he refused to believe me.
I stay in touch with him because his older brother, Russell, was my very good friend and a staunch liberal, but Russell died suddenly 4 years ago of a heart attack, and somehow I got caught up in becoming friends with Kenny because their elderly mother, my aunt Dorothy, went to live with Kenny after Russell died, and she and I used to chat often before she died at age 98 in 2023. Now I'm stuck with Kenny. He calls me every now and then just to chat. I really wish he wouldn't.
Minnesota public universities can continue to offer in-state tuition and scholarships to some immigrants in the country without legal status, a federal judge ruled on Friday, dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice last summer that attempted to halt the programs.
"you are privy to all sorts of high-level national security secrets"
The only security, national or otherwise, that the asshats servicing the current regime have the slightest concern about is what national security risk can they fabricate to do whatever the fuck they want. We all knew that national security actually meant less than bupkis to them when Kegbreath used Signal for a confidential chat, included his (literally) better half in chats, and her attending high level, secure meetings with top ranking military officials from other countries. Not one single RINO dipshit thought to even suggest sanctioning his ass for any of this.
Ka$h was just going along with the precedent set by Kegbreath a year ago, and the Fulvous Fuckwad five years ago.
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"What a ridiculous dork"
Mr Legum, I challenge you to name anyone at the senior level in the Fulvous Fuckwad's misadministration who ***isn't*** a totes, unvarnished, dyed in the wool, grifting piece of used toilet paper.
We espied today a group of people crossing the street towards the end of our local gathering; among them a seemingly sweet old woman wearing a sweatshirt that said “Trump is a c-word”; except it said the actual word printed neatly on the back.
They will cut a bitch. My mom and my aunt (both in their 70s) have fucking *had it*. They are ready to stomp some people if these nutters continue to come for their grandchildren (both have non-white grandchildren).
And I think the way they see it is they have nothing to lose. :(
Sorry it's so long, but I don't know how to post the linky without giving you all my email, LOL!
From Marc Elias a little while ago. More LOL. Thank gawd they're as incompetent as they are evil:
"To bring a federal lawsuit, a plaintiff files a complaint — a short, plain statement describing what the case is about, why the court has jurisdiction, and what relief is sought. The plaintiff then obtains a summons and serves the complaint on the defendant.
Service can get tricky when defendants are located overseas or in hiding. But in voting rights cases, where the defendant is a state government, it's simple.
Simple, that is, unless you are the Department of Justice.
Regular readers of Democracy Docket know that the DOJ has sued 30 states, plus the District of Columbia, for access to their unredacted voter rolls. One of those states was Washington. From the start, the Washington lawsuit struggled.
The DOJ had 90 days to serve the state of Washington. The good news for the DOJ is that the state was not hiding or evading service. It was simply being a state — office buildings, lawyers and government officials with titles. In my experience, it’s a friendly state. People respond to email and return phone calls.
Even better for the DOJ: it has an entire office full of experts serving in Washington State. The U.S. Attorney's office is part of the Department of Justice, and nearly every lawyer in it is licensed to practice law in Washington.
Better still, Washington State had reached out and offered to waive service of process — a procedure allowed under the federal rules and applicable everywhere in the country. No special knowledge of the Washington State government was required.
As Washington State's secretary of state noted: "We would expect the U.S. Department of Justice to know how to properly file a lawsuit in federal court."
Clearly, the secretary's office expected too much.
Meeting the 90-day deadline proved beyond DOJ's reach. When a federal judge stepped in to demand an explanation for why the administration had failed to meet this basic requirement, things got even stranger.
First, the DOJ claimed it had already served Secretary of State Steve Hobbs — though it turned out they had served a woman identified only as "Mia Doe" at an address that did not belong to Hobbs. When Hobbs' legal team offered to waive service, a different DOJ attorney — one who had not previously been involved in the case — continued trying, and failing, to serve Hobbs.
Finally, on Monday, Eric Neff, the Acting Chief of the DOJ's Voting Section, stepped forward and took full responsibility: "The unsuccessful efforts for timely service were spearheaded solely by myself." He attributed his failure "primarily to my unfamiliarity with service of process procedures on state officials in Washington State."
This is remarkable. The head of the entire Voting Section did not know how to serve a complaint? And he was personally, and apparently alone, attempting to do so?"
To blow the 90 day window doesn't happen often. Usually it's someone trying to avoid service, but there are ways....I once chased a TT truck driver all over northern Quebec to get him served after he ran our trike-riding client off of 93 and caused massive, life-threatening injury. (I didn't do the "chasing" in Quebec!) I had to request an extension of time on that one, and simply had to document my legit efforts to find the defendant.
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️
It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
I just had a phone convo with my Italian-American cousin Kenny, who lives in Boston. He is a die hard MAGA believer. He was telling me all about how Antifa burned Portland to the ground, and he knows it's true because he saw the video on Faux News. I told him I have friends in Portland who say everything is fine and nothing burned down, but he refused to believe me.
I stay in touch with him because his older brother, Russell, was my very good friend and a staunch liberal, but Russell died suddenly 4 years ago of a heart attack, and somehow I got caught up in becoming friends with Kenny because their elderly mother, my aunt Dorothy, went to live with Kenny after Russell died, and she and I used to chat often before she died at age 98 in 2023. Now I'm stuck with Kenny. He calls me every now and then just to chat. I really wish he wouldn't.
Would it be wrong of me to say that CPAC seems just as full of ignorant buffoons as ever, only less blissfully ignorant?
LOLOLOLOLOL https://bsky.app/profile/blue-rosary52.bsky.social/post/3mi5kjbvtgk2t
National Respect Your Cat Day. Look at their pawpaws and toebeans and whiskers and remember that monkeys and kitties are best fwiends for alla time.
Jax is celebrating Respect Your Cat Day by being orange. https://substack.com/@ontheotherhand124816/note/c-234811674?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
Ginger weirdos are the best.
"Bidens Adopt 2 Black Lab Rescues After White House Challenges with Pet German Shepherds"
“After my marriage to an alcoholic, went on the rocks, I found a lovely meth addict living on the street. I realized she was the woman of my dreams.“
My NO KINGS photos from Shaker Heights, OH.
https://ziggywiggy.substack.com/p/no-kings-shaker-heights-ohio?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Tomorrow I will be collecting photos from Wonkers.
𝗔 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗢𝗝 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-public-school-tuition-immigrant-benefits-4d68ff8cfa317884a4d28e20c1e735cb
Minnesota public universities can continue to offer in-state tuition and scholarships to some immigrants in the country without legal status, a federal judge ruled on Friday, dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice last summer that attempted to halt the programs.
The DoJ is an enemy of all that's good and right.
Vocalist Germaine Bazzle is 94 years old today. Here's a recording of her from 1991 singing "Exactly Like You":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3eScNymQc
Here she is singing "Secret Love," with Ellis Marsalis on the piano, recorded in 1987:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aolAbbYXlM
Why have I never heard her voice before? She's grand!
She's been primarily a New Orleans artist, I think.
The local Mom & Pop gelato shop made Tin Roof Sundae gelato--vanilla bean gelato with double dipped chocolate coated peanuts...
*drools*
Yes it's that good...😊
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mi5mu5bhxs2y
Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊
Dems in array!
Nice!
"you are privy to all sorts of high-level national security secrets"
The only security, national or otherwise, that the asshats servicing the current regime have the slightest concern about is what national security risk can they fabricate to do whatever the fuck they want. We all knew that national security actually meant less than bupkis to them when Kegbreath used Signal for a confidential chat, included his (literally) better half in chats, and her attending high level, secure meetings with top ranking military officials from other countries. Not one single RINO dipshit thought to even suggest sanctioning his ass for any of this.
Ka$h was just going along with the precedent set by Kegbreath a year ago, and the Fulvous Fuckwad five years ago.
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"What a ridiculous dork"
Mr Legum, I challenge you to name anyone at the senior level in the Fulvous Fuckwad's misadministration who ***isn't*** a totes, unvarnished, dyed in the wool, grifting piece of used toilet paper.
fnord
I'd nominate the Printer Lady.
We espied today a group of people crossing the street towards the end of our local gathering; among them a seemingly sweet old woman wearing a sweatshirt that said “Trump is a c-word”; except it said the actual word printed neatly on the back.
The sweet old ladies are the ones to watch ...
They will cut a bitch. My mom and my aunt (both in their 70s) have fucking *had it*. They are ready to stomp some people if these nutters continue to come for their grandchildren (both have non-white grandchildren).
And I think the way they see it is they have nothing to lose. :(
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible.org/post/3mi5nrfssjk2p
No Kings in the City of Angels. #NoKings
Sorry it's so long, but I don't know how to post the linky without giving you all my email, LOL!
From Marc Elias a little while ago. More LOL. Thank gawd they're as incompetent as they are evil:
"To bring a federal lawsuit, a plaintiff files a complaint — a short, plain statement describing what the case is about, why the court has jurisdiction, and what relief is sought. The plaintiff then obtains a summons and serves the complaint on the defendant.
Service can get tricky when defendants are located overseas or in hiding. But in voting rights cases, where the defendant is a state government, it's simple.
Simple, that is, unless you are the Department of Justice.
Regular readers of Democracy Docket know that the DOJ has sued 30 states, plus the District of Columbia, for access to their unredacted voter rolls. One of those states was Washington. From the start, the Washington lawsuit struggled.
The DOJ had 90 days to serve the state of Washington. The good news for the DOJ is that the state was not hiding or evading service. It was simply being a state — office buildings, lawyers and government officials with titles. In my experience, it’s a friendly state. People respond to email and return phone calls.
Even better for the DOJ: it has an entire office full of experts serving in Washington State. The U.S. Attorney's office is part of the Department of Justice, and nearly every lawyer in it is licensed to practice law in Washington.
Better still, Washington State had reached out and offered to waive service of process — a procedure allowed under the federal rules and applicable everywhere in the country. No special knowledge of the Washington State government was required.
As Washington State's secretary of state noted: "We would expect the U.S. Department of Justice to know how to properly file a lawsuit in federal court."
Clearly, the secretary's office expected too much.
Meeting the 90-day deadline proved beyond DOJ's reach. When a federal judge stepped in to demand an explanation for why the administration had failed to meet this basic requirement, things got even stranger.
First, the DOJ claimed it had already served Secretary of State Steve Hobbs — though it turned out they had served a woman identified only as "Mia Doe" at an address that did not belong to Hobbs. When Hobbs' legal team offered to waive service, a different DOJ attorney — one who had not previously been involved in the case — continued trying, and failing, to serve Hobbs.
Finally, on Monday, Eric Neff, the Acting Chief of the DOJ's Voting Section, stepped forward and took full responsibility: "The unsuccessful efforts for timely service were spearheaded solely by myself." He attributed his failure "primarily to my unfamiliarity with service of process procedures on state officials in Washington State."
This is remarkable. The head of the entire Voting Section did not know how to serve a complaint? And he was personally, and apparently alone, attempting to do so?"
Neff was hoping incompetence might lead to a promotion to a cabinet level position.
Makes the Keystone Cops look like brain surgeons.
I just read this ... are they so understaffed with nothing left but incompetent attorneys? Isn't this like basic lawyering?
101.
To blow the 90 day window doesn't happen often. Usually it's someone trying to avoid service, but there are ways....I once chased a TT truck driver all over northern Quebec to get him served after he ran our trike-riding client off of 93 and caused massive, life-threatening injury. (I didn't do the "chasing" in Quebec!) I had to request an extension of time on that one, and simply had to document my legit efforts to find the defendant.
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3mi5c6ctnuk2h
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️
It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
Oh, that makes me cry. I am so glad someone(s) did this.
I saw a similar thing earlier from a Wonker, IIRC, in Richmond. The shoes. For the little girls.
:(