Darin Smith, Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming, is already the acting attorney in this role. A former Republican state legislator, he took part in the protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — though he said he didn’t enter the building — when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in search of lawmakers to potentially kill to stop them from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. Smith, whose background is primarily in estate planning, has practiced law for 25 years but hasn’t tried a single case in federal or state courts.
Phillip Williams is up for a U.S. attorney post in the Northern District of Alabama. Like Smith, he’s never tried a criminal case. He previously criticized federal law enforcement for having “hunted down” Jan. 6 rioters, and accused them of “prosecutorial abuse, many, many times over.” He also compared their prosecutions to the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s, when people were falsely accused of witchcraft. He has also described abortion as “nothing more than industrialized slaughter.”
Dan Bishop, a former Republican congressman, is also up for a U.S. Attorney post in North Carolina. He previously voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He called it “believable” that progressives may have also been in the mix of Trump fanatics that day, fueling violence. [HuffPost]
My husband’s boss’ daughter (pause for obligatory “so what does that make us?” “absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become!”) is part of the event management team for the UFC fight at the White House. I cannot wait for that complete shitshow of a desecration and hope she manages to shiv him (with votes, of course).
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Today in History: Monica Seles Stabbed (1993); Fall of Saigon (1975); Hitler Commits Suicide (1945); Lou Gehrig Plays Last of Record 2,130 Consecutive Games (1939); First US President on Television (1939); First Black Female Pilot Dies in Accident (1926); Germ Theory Described (1873); Louisiana Purchase (1808); Galileo Recants Belief that Earth Revolves Around the Sun (1633); Ellen DeGeneres' Character Comes Out of the Closet (1997); Longest Time Between Birth of Triplets (45 days, 1993): Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Kleindienst Resign (1793); Hawaii Becomes US Territory (1900); Electron Discovery Announced (1897); First Theatrical Performance in North America (1598)
Today's birthdays: Ana de Armas, Dianna Agron, Gal Gadot, Kirsten Dunst, Amanda Palmer, Johnny Galecki, Leigh Francis, Lars Von Trier, Jane Campion, Burt Young, Cloris Leachman, Al Lewis, Eve Arden, Merrill Osmond, Gary Collins, Willie Nelson, Eugen Bleuler (Coined the Term "Schizophrenia"), Karl Friedrich Gauss
Today's deaths: Agnes Moorehead, Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler, Bessie Coleman (World's First Black Female Aviator to Obtain Pilot's License), Sarah Josepha Hale (Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"), John Montagu (Inventor of the Sandwich), Naomi Judd, Tom Poston, Richard Scarry, Sergio Leone, Guy Williams, Muddy Waters (The Father of Chicago Blues), Edwin Stanton Porter (Directed First American Film to Use Intercutting and First Motion Picture with a Plot), Samuel Heinicke
Hairstyle appreciation day? I twisted my hair up last night and woke up looking like Lindsey Halligan, which is slightly better than waking up looking like Lindsay Graham, I guess.
Candace Owens warns that Laura Loomer may have blackmail material on President Trump, which forces him to post her content on his Truth Social account.
Loomer:
George Farmer, the immigrant husband of Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO, totaled his truck while driving drunk on 8/10/2023, despite Candace Owens denying her husband had ever been arrested and claiming his accident was simply a “fender bender” that the police were never called over. In reality, there have been multiple accidents, including a 2023 DUI due to Farmer’s excessive drinking and driving.
In 2023, Farmer was a green card holder and when he was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, he was in possession of a firearm and had targets in the backseat of his truck. This is all documented in the arrest report below.
President Donald Trump swiftly signed bipartisan legislation on Thursday after US House of Representatives voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security – excluding immigration enforcement operations – and end the longest government agency shutdown in history.
'The deal struck on Thursday aims to draw a line under a 75-day impasse that had threatened airport chaos and exposed fresh strains within the Republican party.
'In a swift voice vote, the Republican-controlled chamber approved a bipartisan measure to fund much of the sprawling department, including the Secret Service and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). But the legislation stops short of covering key immigration enforcement arms such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), leaving the fiercest battle over Trump’s deportation agenda for another day.
'The vote came after days of mounting pressure on Mike Johnson, the House speaker, whose wafer-thin majority had repeatedly failed to break the deadlock. Although the Senate had passed the package unanimously weeks ago, the bill had languished in the House as conservative Republicans demanded any funding deal be tied to a long-term plan to bankroll the White House’s immigration crackdown.'
MarKwayne Mullin said in a social media post that his department was “back open,” and he blamed Democrats for the long shutdown. “To be clear, this Democrat shutdown NEVER should have happened,” Mullin said.
“Speaker Johnson extended the D.H.S. shutdown for over a month for no reason at all,” Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, said in a statement. “This is the same bill the Senate unanimously passed five weeks ago.” [NYT]
This constant "The Democrats this and the Democrats that" is, IMO, civil war levels of provocation.
IIRC, in the lead up to the civil war confederates were going into Yankee areas and spitting at people's feet and making them jump out of the way. Petty fucking shit like that.
So these unreconstructed fuckwits have been trolling and trying to "own the libz" since earlier than 1865.
Creepy as hell -- the Minocqua Brewing Co., a small-town Wisconsin tavern that has been very vocal in its opposition to Trump in both real-time and social media, reports that they've been contacted by the FBI and Secret Service and will be meeting with them (and their lawyer) in an hour.
Felt like I had to get the word out somewhere. Don't know what to do anymore besides communicate...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that the Justice Department's decision to investigate James Comey for his "86 47" Instagram post does not mean that everyone who posts or displays those numbers will be prosecuted.
NYT: "The Agriculture Department projected last July that farmers would harvest 86.8 million acres of corn in autumn. The projection was repeatedly revised upward until, in January, the department found 1.3 million more acres of corn — an area larger than Delaware — and concluded that the final amount harvested was 91.3 million acres.
The 5 percent undercount may seem small, but it was the department’s worst projection in recent memory. It came as the Trump administration was cutting staff at the Agriculture Department and as President Trump’s trade war raised prices for equipment and hurt exports.
Some people in agriculture have become increasingly worried about the reliability of department data. That skepticism could lead to a breakdown of the historically close relationship between the department and farmers it serves, they said."
“[to be an astronaut] you have to be very smart. you have to do a lot of things physically good. so I would have had no trouble making it. I’m physically very, very good. we’ll have to try it sometimes. is a president allowed to go up in one of these missions?”
Put him in an oil barrel, fill it up to his neck with concrete, tell him he's in a spaceship, then take him 300 miles offshore for "splashdown training"
Wayne Kramer, guitarist in the MC5, was born on this day in 1948. Here he is singing "Ramblin' Rose" with the band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMRtqnzA_oU
And here is Brother Wayne appearing with Rage Against The Machine in 2008 and performing "Kick Out The Jams":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVXdTnORnc
Meet your new U.S. Attorney nominees:
Darin Smith, Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming, is already the acting attorney in this role. A former Republican state legislator, he took part in the protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — though he said he didn’t enter the building — when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in search of lawmakers to potentially kill to stop them from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. Smith, whose background is primarily in estate planning, has practiced law for 25 years but hasn’t tried a single case in federal or state courts.
Phillip Williams is up for a U.S. attorney post in the Northern District of Alabama. Like Smith, he’s never tried a criminal case. He previously criticized federal law enforcement for having “hunted down” Jan. 6 rioters, and accused them of “prosecutorial abuse, many, many times over.” He also compared their prosecutions to the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s, when people were falsely accused of witchcraft. He has also described abortion as “nothing more than industrialized slaughter.”
Dan Bishop, a former Republican congressman, is also up for a U.S. Attorney post in North Carolina. He previously voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He called it “believable” that progressives may have also been in the mix of Trump fanatics that day, fueling violence. [HuffPost]
They seem nice
They all sound KKKlan-tastic!
The SCOTUS has lost all credibility.
The pitchforks hone.
This redistricting war is likely to spread to blue states. Another step forward in the Cold Civil War.
My husband’s boss’ daughter (pause for obligatory “so what does that make us?” “absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become!”) is part of the event management team for the UFC fight at the White House. I cannot wait for that complete shitshow of a desecration and hope she manages to shiv him (with votes, of course).
There are many, many, tacky-ass things Piggy has done or has planned.
That UFC fight has to be the worst.
I wonder if he'll try reffing the match himself.
Maybe Madam McMahon could tag in.
I had forgotten all about it, and now that it’s cemented in reality I want to return to my state of ignorance. Disgusting.
Nope
Hugo Black was a former KKK member who changed sides and voted for Civil Rights
" I used to put on white robes to scare black people, now I put on black robes to scare white people"
Today is April 30, 2026 (Thursday)
🥔 Day of the Child
🥔 Hairstyle Appreciation Day
🥔 Healthy Kids Day
🥔 Honesty Day
🥔 International Guide Dog Day
🥔 International Jazz Day
🥔 Military Brats Day
🥔 Mr. Potato Head Day
🥔 National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day
🥔 National Animal Advocacy Day
🥔 National Bubble Tea Day
🥔 National Bugs Bunny Day
🥔 National Mahjong Day
🥔 National Oatmeal Cookie Day
🥔 National PrepareAthon Day
🥔 National Raisin Day
🥔 National Sarcoidosis Day
🥔 National Tabby Day
🥔 National Therapy Animal Day
🥔 National Tie Dye Day
🥔 Queen's Day
🥔 Spank Out Day
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Today in History: Monica Seles Stabbed (1993); Fall of Saigon (1975); Hitler Commits Suicide (1945); Lou Gehrig Plays Last of Record 2,130 Consecutive Games (1939); First US President on Television (1939); First Black Female Pilot Dies in Accident (1926); Germ Theory Described (1873); Louisiana Purchase (1808); Galileo Recants Belief that Earth Revolves Around the Sun (1633); Ellen DeGeneres' Character Comes Out of the Closet (1997); Longest Time Between Birth of Triplets (45 days, 1993): Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Kleindienst Resign (1793); Hawaii Becomes US Territory (1900); Electron Discovery Announced (1897); First Theatrical Performance in North America (1598)
Today's birthdays: Ana de Armas, Dianna Agron, Gal Gadot, Kirsten Dunst, Amanda Palmer, Johnny Galecki, Leigh Francis, Lars Von Trier, Jane Campion, Burt Young, Cloris Leachman, Al Lewis, Eve Arden, Merrill Osmond, Gary Collins, Willie Nelson, Eugen Bleuler (Coined the Term "Schizophrenia"), Karl Friedrich Gauss
Today's deaths: Agnes Moorehead, Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler, Bessie Coleman (World's First Black Female Aviator to Obtain Pilot's License), Sarah Josepha Hale (Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"), John Montagu (Inventor of the Sandwich), Naomi Judd, Tom Poston, Richard Scarry, Sergio Leone, Guy Williams, Muddy Waters (The Father of Chicago Blues), Edwin Stanton Porter (Directed First American Film to Use Intercutting and First Motion Picture with a Plot), Samuel Heinicke
I love Eve Arden beyond all reason.
She’s never not spectacular. Perfect voice, perfect delivery.
Hairstyle appreciation day? I twisted my hair up last night and woke up looking like Lindsey Halligan, which is slightly better than waking up looking like Lindsay Graham, I guess.
Mr. Potato Head Day?
Pass me those ears and spectacles!
Candace Owens warns that Laura Loomer may have blackmail material on President Trump, which forces him to post her content on his Truth Social account.
Loomer:
George Farmer, the immigrant husband of Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO, totaled his truck while driving drunk on 8/10/2023, despite Candace Owens denying her husband had ever been arrested and claiming his accident was simply a “fender bender” that the police were never called over. In reality, there have been multiple accidents, including a 2023 DUI due to Farmer’s excessive drinking and driving.
In 2023, Farmer was a green card holder and when he was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, he was in possession of a firearm and had targets in the backseat of his truck. This is all documented in the arrest report below.
Ladies! No hitting in the face! Please proceed.
What fucking grade am I in again? Three? Five?
Nobody wants either of them at their lunch table
House Republicans cave, pass everything-but-immigration-enforcement DHS funding bill that the Senate passed weeks ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/partial-government-shutdown-ends-ice-dhs-funding-republicans
'
President Donald Trump swiftly signed bipartisan legislation on Thursday after US House of Representatives voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security – excluding immigration enforcement operations – and end the longest government agency shutdown in history.
'The deal struck on Thursday aims to draw a line under a 75-day impasse that had threatened airport chaos and exposed fresh strains within the Republican party.
'In a swift voice vote, the Republican-controlled chamber approved a bipartisan measure to fund much of the sprawling department, including the Secret Service and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). But the legislation stops short of covering key immigration enforcement arms such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), leaving the fiercest battle over Trump’s deportation agenda for another day.
'The vote came after days of mounting pressure on Mike Johnson, the House speaker, whose wafer-thin majority had repeatedly failed to break the deadlock. Although the Senate had passed the package unanimously weeks ago, the bill had languished in the House as conservative Republicans demanded any funding deal be tied to a long-term plan to bankroll the White House’s immigration crackdown.'
Just in time for airlines to run out of fuel.
I assume this includes FEMA too, just in time for hurricane season?
"what even is hurricane season?" asks markwayne, continuing "i knows me some tornadoes."
What happened to that SAVE horseshit?
Dead.
Senate isn't going to pass it, that would require abolishing the filibuster and they don't have the guts.
So he didn't get his stupid-ass "SAVE" act. Shame.
It would spell more voter suppression, so YAY!
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MarKwayne Mullin said in a social media post that his department was “back open,” and he blamed Democrats for the long shutdown. “To be clear, this Democrat shutdown NEVER should have happened,” Mullin said.
“Speaker Johnson extended the D.H.S. shutdown for over a month for no reason at all,” Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, said in a statement. “This is the same bill the Senate unanimously passed five weeks ago.” [NYT]
I am so tired of this horseshit.
This constant "The Democrats this and the Democrats that" is, IMO, civil war levels of provocation.
IIRC, in the lead up to the civil war confederates were going into Yankee areas and spitting at people's feet and making them jump out of the way. Petty fucking shit like that.
So these unreconstructed fuckwits have been trolling and trying to "own the libz" since earlier than 1865.
the smrt fuckwits manage to blame Biden instead of Obama.
Just took this Harry photo which is a totally different thing than a hairy photo.
Reflections.
Harry says that cat always has my back.
https://substack.com/profile/155618292-ziggywiggy/note/c-251800336?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc
Creepy as hell -- the Minocqua Brewing Co., a small-town Wisconsin tavern that has been very vocal in its opposition to Trump in both real-time and social media, reports that they've been contacted by the FBI and Secret Service and will be meeting with them (and their lawyer) in an hour.
Felt like I had to get the word out somewhere. Don't know what to do anymore besides communicate...
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1389500516541828&id=100064456793618
so what does the atf even do anymore? have they been wholly absorbed by ice/cbp?
If I could buy their product I would. But I bought a "Wish it was free beer day" t-shirt.
They posted about giving away free beer the day Trump dies, which they've been marketing for years.
The owner is a bit of a wild cat, so this could get weird, quickly.
I wish I could be there when they give away the free beer. I will take the free beer AND order champagne.
Champage (2 bottles) in the fridge for emergency celebration.
Any Wonk in SF should stop by when it happens, there's several bottles in the booze fridge.
If celebrating with beer is wrong, I don't want to be right.
When it comes to the Sleazy Six on the corrupted court just wait till they overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act, The Loving and Brown decisions...
Something that’s scaring me is it will be the Republicans who “reform the SCOTUS” and appoint four more illegitimate suck ups.
Precisely what I expect those Nazis to do.
That’s in the works.
Fucking knuckle draggers dressed in judicial robes.
well what a relief this is...😏
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that the Justice Department's decision to investigate James Comey for his "86 47" Instagram post does not mean that everyone who posts or displays those numbers will be prosecuted.
https://bsky.app/profile/abcbot.mirrors.bot/post/3mkoexy5gys2s
Patrick Fitzgerald *adds* another exhibit to their vindictive prosecution motion in 3...2...1...
AND that's the illegal part - the targeting of political opponents is blatant, and they're not even pretending it isn't.
And Hitler said something about being satisfied with territory seized
Lady justice took off her blindfold, saw comey, then whacked him with the scales.
George Carlin: "Guys Named Todd".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcagGPXGocc
George also mentions "Tucker", just in case.
"Fuck Tucker. Tucker sucks."
Crooked Donnie sold "8646" merch. LOCK HIM UP!
LXXXVI XLVII
93^2 -2
Huh. Convenient.
So, selective prosecution? Todd, you ignorant slut.
And he says it out loud.
TO A REPORTER.
Selective prosecution then? Cool, very cool and totally legit.
If I was the Judge I'd slap him in the face.
imposing financial sanctions on an acting ag sounds fun.
NYT: "The Agriculture Department projected last July that farmers would harvest 86.8 million acres of corn in autumn. The projection was repeatedly revised upward until, in January, the department found 1.3 million more acres of corn — an area larger than Delaware — and concluded that the final amount harvested was 91.3 million acres.
The 5 percent undercount may seem small, but it was the department’s worst projection in recent memory. It came as the Trump administration was cutting staff at the Agriculture Department and as President Trump’s trade war raised prices for equipment and hurt exports.
Some people in agriculture have become increasingly worried about the reliability of department data. That skepticism could lead to a breakdown of the historically close relationship between the department and farmers it serves, they said."
We’ve had pestilence, war, attempted conquest; we really need famine to round it all out.
“I TRIED TO TELL YOU.” — God
But what about Frozen Orange Juice Futures...???
Every fucking day ...
“[to be an astronaut] you have to be very smart. you have to do a lot of things physically good. so I would have had no trouble making it. I’m physically very, very good. we’ll have to try it sometimes. is a president allowed to go up in one of these missions?”
How about he be the first man on a PeeLon rocket?
The orange bag of slime said this? And repubes are fine with it. Almost literally unbelievable.
Yes
One-way
Put him a rest home and tell him it's a spaceship.
Put him in an oil barrel, fill it up to his neck with concrete, tell him he's in a spaceship, then take him 300 miles offshore for "splashdown training"
Send him on a Musk Rocket 🚀
Orderly!
I don’t need to say this, but,,,,,,,,,,dude you don’t know the first thing about the NASA astronaut program.
Engineering or earth science degrees and or flight time as PIC in jet aircraft.
Fuck you donnie you half dead Moran.
On Elon's newest self-driving rocket!
I mean, getting launched into space is extremely physically taxing. I say we let ol' Diaper Don go!
Straight into the Sun, “Sir”.
Deep space, maximum dispersal.
Make it so, Number One...
Engage!
Ground control to Major Tom, your zipper’s down, we see your dong…
Snork!
Maybe he's earned a ride on the fire truck.
at least gets to drink from the firehose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4-wojFsYA
Sure, Donnie. But in your case, you'll not be allowed to come back.