Marcie, don't sell your accusations short. We have plenty of evidence, real evidence, that Alito is a high-ranking member of an anti-American gang. It's just not a foreign one.
I heard about this gang that doesn't use tattoos. They use flags. At their houses, on their trucks, everywhere. They fly them upside down a lot of times to signal to other gang members.
I saw one of those flags flying at a place across the bay. People that don't even have American names. Something ending in a vowel. They should be gathered up and shipped off to El Salvo.
"Gulag" is an inaccurate term to describe what's being done here. Gulags were forced labor camps, and though millions died in them, there was no intentional, systematic plan for prisoners to die in them. In El Salvador, there is no forced labor, just 23.5 hours a day confinement to a cell containing some 150+ other detainees (again being precise with that term, given absence of due process). And as the announced, systematic intention is that no detainee will ever leave the camps, then they are more accurately death camps, not gulags.
Superintendent of schools in LA discusses a couple of unsuccessful DHS raids— whoops! I mean “wellness checks on unaccompanied minors whose parents gave them permission to interview the children,” except that they weren’t given permission, as confirmed in later discussions with these children’s guardians. Men in black flashed badges, but refused to let the principals at the schools record any of the information on the badges because “it wasn’t allowed.“
Your daily reminder that "the accountability of no one" is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes as meticulously recorded and documented by Masha Gessen
who also tried to tell us what was what during the early days of the *first* Trump Maladministration when Joy Reid was still on the air, but nobody wanted to hear about it
I was very happy to hear that the principals had received prior training on how to respond, and the superintendent brought up the `in loco parentis' responsibility of adults to step in and protect vulnerable children in such circumstances.
Found myself wondering what happens in small rural schools in the absence of such training and support...
I just figure if we're really going to be able to solve these problems - or, better, prevent them - we need to be better prepared to anticipate what the scope of these problems ARE
What was unsuccessful about the raids if they were not willing to allow for their IDs to be checked? DID the men in black get access to the kids or not? WHAR WARRANTS? WHAR ACCOUNTABILITY? ALL school superintendents and principals should have a plan to call their local police AND THEIR LAWYERS if such MIBs show up at their schools, and they should demand IDs and other documentation to prove their assertions that they have been given permission to approach kids. WTAF Those assholes could suddenly decide to take possession of those children and who would ever see them again? WERE THEY ARMED?!?!? MASKED MEN pushing their way into schools is in what way different from a random armed attack on that school? Just no bullets being fired? FFS
I encourage you to check out the link. Some--not all--of your important points are addressed in it. "Unsuccessful" from their POV, because the line was held. Also pertinent that this made the news. These things grow in darkness, but shine a light on their activities and they scuttle back into the damp recesses.
The superintendent and principals did what they could. The newspeople did what they could. We just all keep doing what we can. Spread the word. Humiliate them.
When the Feds (and the local cops) were brutalizing people in Portland they all wore the same outfits with masks and no id badges-which ALSO made them indistinguishable from the militia types attacking people. That way, no-one could bring a lawsuit because they couldn't identify who had attacked them.
Sam Burrito and the Other one need to be seen for what they really are: pettifogging justices whose opinions are surreal fartsmoke with no substance wafting through the penal colony like a bad dream.
It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict in a judicial impeachment ... just like it takes to get rid of a lawless so-called POTUS.
Remember when some of us were literally yelling in 2018 about how we needed "MOAR DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE BECAUSE A TWO-SEAT MAJORITY IS NOT ENOUGH TO PASS THE JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ACT??" but we were patted on the head and told to sit down because we were "overreacting"?
Too many voters do not look at the larger or national ramifications. Witness Sherrod Brown, Jon Tester, and Bob Casey losing this past election. Now that MAGA has infiltrated Congress, the vaunted checks and balances our system is supposed to have are absent. Sic transit gloria Americana
Though I may agree, it's not very likely in THIS Congress. Johnson would NEVER bring it up for a vote and Jordan controls The Judiciary Committee in The House. We wouldn't likely get a majority in The House or 2/3's in The Senate.
In 1804. Samuel Chase, who had been serving on the nation’s highest court since 1796, was impeached by the House and tried in the Senate over his partisan rhetoric. Chase was ultimately impeached on the basis that he refused to “dismiss biased jurors and of excluding or limiting defense witnesses in two politically sensitive cases,” according to the United States Senate. He was also accused of promoting his political beliefs.
Johnson is a fake holy roller. He's super-religious unless it goes against BeneDIC(t)K Trump. He has no God other than Trump. And doing so, he should face severe penalties.... a cross, but not a hanging.
Sam Alito — one of the two justices who dissented, one guess who the other one is — is MAD MAD that he got awakened in the middle of the night, was forced to make a decision while still in his pajamas, and that the rest of the judges did not even let him take all night to hammer out his five-page dissent before releasing their opinion.
And of course THAT dissent was the top headline in NYT all day yesterday. Not the actual ruling against Trump. Just Alitos dissent. Because that’s the real story right?
Marcie, don't sell your accusations short. We have plenty of evidence, real evidence, that Alito is a high-ranking member of an anti-American gang. It's just not a foreign one.
“There is before the Court an application," rather than, “The application presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court”.
Yes, it sounds like Alito had hoped to just sit on the application until time ran out instead of referring the application to the rest of the Court.
I heard about this gang that doesn't use tattoos. They use flags. At their houses, on their trucks, everywhere. They fly them upside down a lot of times to signal to other gang members.
I saw one of those flags flying at a place across the bay. People that don't even have American names. Something ending in a vowel. They should be gathered up and shipped off to El Salvo.
Ta, Marcie. That Thing in the Offal Office has no idea what due process means. None.
He really ought to
Since his whiny lawyers demanded more than anybody ever
It's the thing that keeps him off the golf course.
It's the thing that kept him ON the golf course
He got more due process during his $85 million civil trial and his 34-felony-count criminal trial than pretty much any American ever
i guess their donors are sick of the chaos already and have started telling the scrote-us to get then mad orange under control
Should we tell them, or wait for the looks on their faces when he bursts through the door and goes rampaging across the countryside?
Alito is definitely a gang member. The "destroy the Constitution and the country" gang.
Maybe they're going to hunt down Kristi's lost purse next.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html
If she wasn't white, 3K in cash would get her into a lot of trouble with, well, Kristi's employees.
That cash was from Kristi's employers. It was a cash bribe.
Too bad her phone wasn't in it, too.
Way worried about the Supreme Court thinking about healthcare.
VERGOGNA flag!
"Are we sure he isn’t a gang member?"
Yeah, what's the origin of the "Vergogna" flag again?
GMTA
"Gulag" is an inaccurate term to describe what's being done here. Gulags were forced labor camps, and though millions died in them, there was no intentional, systematic plan for prisoners to die in them. In El Salvador, there is no forced labor, just 23.5 hours a day confinement to a cell containing some 150+ other detainees (again being precise with that term, given absence of due process). And as the announced, systematic intention is that no detainee will ever leave the camps, then they are more accurately death camps, not gulags.
Superintendent of schools in LA discusses a couple of unsuccessful DHS raids— whoops! I mean “wellness checks on unaccompanied minors whose parents gave them permission to interview the children,” except that they weren’t given permission, as confirmed in later discussions with these children’s guardians. Men in black flashed badges, but refused to let the principals at the schools record any of the information on the badges because “it wasn’t allowed.“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFHk1kusXQ0
Remember the good old days when we thought arming teachers was a foolish idea?
"it wasn't allowed" -- BY WHOM?
Your daily reminder that "the accountability of no one" is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes as meticulously recorded and documented by Masha Gessen
who also tried to tell us what was what during the early days of the *first* Trump Maladministration when Joy Reid was still on the air, but nobody wanted to hear about it
I did. I even read her book about Putin, The Man Without a Face.
We should have done a reading group
I'm not sure we knew it wasn't just necessary, but desperately necessary
The power of the passive voice...
I was very happy to hear that the principals had received prior training on how to respond, and the superintendent brought up the `in loco parentis' responsibility of adults to step in and protect vulnerable children in such circumstances.
Found myself wondering what happens in small rural schools in the absence of such training and support...
You’re wondering what happens because you know what happens
Yeah. Dammit.
I try not to be Donna Downer, I really do
I just figure if we're really going to be able to solve these problems - or, better, prevent them - we need to be better prepared to anticipate what the scope of these problems ARE
Here's a nice thing from Congressman Harry Dunn
https://harrydunn.substack.com/p/were-all-pissed-now-what
What was unsuccessful about the raids if they were not willing to allow for their IDs to be checked? DID the men in black get access to the kids or not? WHAR WARRANTS? WHAR ACCOUNTABILITY? ALL school superintendents and principals should have a plan to call their local police AND THEIR LAWYERS if such MIBs show up at their schools, and they should demand IDs and other documentation to prove their assertions that they have been given permission to approach kids. WTAF Those assholes could suddenly decide to take possession of those children and who would ever see them again? WERE THEY ARMED?!?!? MASKED MEN pushing their way into schools is in what way different from a random armed attack on that school? Just no bullets being fired? FFS
I encourage you to check out the link. Some--not all--of your important points are addressed in it. "Unsuccessful" from their POV, because the line was held. Also pertinent that this made the news. These things grow in darkness, but shine a light on their activities and they scuttle back into the damp recesses.
The superintendent and principals did what they could. The newspeople did what they could. We just all keep doing what we can. Spread the word. Humiliate them.
ALL OF THIS
The (German) SS!
And they're wearing masks ... no transparency problem with this. None at all.
When the Feds (and the local cops) were brutalizing people in Portland they all wore the same outfits with masks and no id badges-which ALSO made them indistinguishable from the militia types attacking people. That way, no-one could bring a lawsuit because they couldn't identify who had attacked them.
Sam Burrito and the Other one need to be seen for what they really are: pettifogging justices whose opinions are surreal fartsmoke with no substance wafting through the penal colony like a bad dream.
And I wish them both long, healthy lives. They'll be leaving these sweet gigs feet first. Maybe it'll fuck Chump up a little replacement-wise.
Alito and Thomas have got to go. Impeach their asses
oh for sure, they'll go. and be replaced by an appeal to heaven waving zygote.
It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict in a judicial impeachment ... just like it takes to get rid of a lawless so-called POTUS.
Remember when some of us were literally yelling in 2018 about how we needed "MOAR DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE BECAUSE A TWO-SEAT MAJORITY IS NOT ENOUGH TO PASS THE JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ACT??" but we were patted on the head and told to sit down because we were "overreacting"?
Yeah. That.
Go.
Too many voters do not look at the larger or national ramifications. Witness Sherrod Brown, Jon Tester, and Bob Casey losing this past election. Now that MAGA has infiltrated Congress, the vaunted checks and balances our system is supposed to have are absent. Sic transit gloria Americana
Though I may agree, it's not very likely in THIS Congress. Johnson would NEVER bring it up for a vote and Jordan controls The Judiciary Committee in The House. We wouldn't likely get a majority in The House or 2/3's in The Senate.
In 1804. Samuel Chase, who had been serving on the nation’s highest court since 1796, was impeached by the House and tried in the Senate over his partisan rhetoric. Chase was ultimately impeached on the basis that he refused to “dismiss biased jurors and of excluding or limiting defense witnesses in two politically sensitive cases,” according to the United States Senate. He was also accused of promoting his political beliefs.
What you just said
https://www.wonkette.com/p/stop-the-presses-the-supreme-court/comment/110931126
Of course you're right that feckless fop Holey Mike Johnson would never do something that is ethical and moral. He is such a fake Xtian. Sickening
You have the strangest religious experiences while being stuffed into a locker.
Johnson is a fake holy roller. He's super-religious unless it goes against BeneDIC(t)K Trump. He has no God other than Trump. And doing so, he should face severe penalties.... a cross, but not a hanging.
They are full-bore traitors and saboteurs, and should be treated as such. Crucifixion's too good for 'em.
Crucifixion was reserved for insurrectionists. It did send a message.
I think the Romans called it the Pax Romana.
Sam Alito — one of the two justices who dissented, one guess who the other one is — is MAD MAD that he got awakened in the middle of the night, was forced to make a decision while still in his pajamas, and that the rest of the judges did not even let him take all night to hammer out his five-page dissent before releasing their opinion.
And of course THAT dissent was the top headline in NYT all day yesterday. Not the actual ruling against Trump. Just Alitos dissent. Because that’s the real story right?
Isn't it sad how quickly the New York Times Pitchbot painted itself into the same corner as The Onion?
If you goal in life is a good night's rest, then you should completely avoid working in the legal profession.
Can we 'shop some gang tattoos onto photos of Alito?
He probably already has some Nazi tattoos.