In an open thread comment yesterday, I detailed witnessing a state attorney, arguing before a judge, decline to rule out drowning as a possible form of execution. Seems fitting here also too.
From the AP article on Ken Paxton's travel habits: "Texas does not require the attorney general to report his day-to-day whereabouts, and other state records do not often reveal the length or purpose of the out-of-state travel. Texas, however, keeps records for the monthly expenses incurred by his security detail. Those records show reimbursements for travel outside Texas spiked from about $30,000 in 2015 to nearly $400,000 in 2024."
FFS Ken, that is a lot of corruption for just one man in one state. Texas needs to start requiring the attorney general to report his whereabouts and why he is out of the state.
It's being breathlessly reported that Thom Tillis told trmp off in a series of texts, that were, evidently, "blistering", that he doesn't take bullshit from anyone. This is, of course, after he decided to retire.
"The White House has told the Justice Department to slow-walk abortion-related actions until after November's midterm elections, according to a new report."
"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate Seattle's court-appointed U.S. attorney Thursday, ruling the president acted unconstitutionally when he abruptly fired him, dealing another blow to the administration's workaround for installing prosecutors without Senate confirmation."
Trump nominates 2 as new federal judges for NC, including James Comey prosecutor
In recent months multiple Republican judges around North Carolina have announced their resignations, allowing their party to try replacing them ahead of the November elections when Democrats could flip control of Congress.
"One of the nominees worked for the late Republican Sen. Jesse Helms. The other has been working on the prosecution of Trump political enemy James Comey, the former FBI director who oversaw an investigation into the Russian government’s involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign. ...
Federal judges serve lifetime appointments on the bench. While the president nominates federal judges, they can’t take office unless the Senate votes to approve them. Republicans currently hold 53 seats in the chamber.
Support from home-state senators is often key. And on Thursday the state’s two Republican U.S. senators, Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, quickly announced their support for Trump’s picks.
“Both Phil and Brian have built distinguished and respected legal careers, and I know that they will be exemplary additions to the district courts,” Budd said."
"The young crypto investors who fell in love with Donald Trump's embrace of the industry when he ran for president are now furious that he used them to enrich himself and his family."
I’ve started God Emperor of Dune but I may not finish it. It resembles the Robert Heinlein novels where his competent-man trope becomes a self-righteous caricature, where he philosophized for pages rather than tell a story. I Will Fear No Evil and Time Enough for Love. True, the Herbert novel has a promising allegory about vast power disconnecting a person from the rest of the human race, but his protagonist sees himself as a martyr for the greater good.
I tried to read the books after "Children of Dune" and noped out. Heinlein could have left it with the first book. I know his son wrote most of them after he died but I still think the first one was the only one I should have read.
Yeah, Leto II (electric boogaloo)'s visions aren't really described in any detail, but they hinted that if he hadn't become a tyrannical mutant the outcome would have been far worse.
I can see a MAGAt making the same argument, actually.
"I saw that if men wanted to be safe from themselves, that would mean they'd have to give up greed. They wouldn't pay that price for liberty. So I said to the world God bless all of you and may the best man win. Die of gluttony. I took a seat in the grand stand of philosophical detachment, to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance."
He can't even get his irrelevancies right. It's Afghanistan that produces the opium. They traffic into and through Iran, sure, but there aren't any 'factories.'
His dementia is advancing really, really quickly now. The speeches and responses to questions are just not connected to anything, never mind the topic at hand.
Trump "explains": "They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. But these drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard."
What is it called when (or that?) a central infection or disease releases or activates many other latent diseases? . . . Damn it Jim, I'm an artist not a doctor!
What I mean is that the Trump Disease® has released so much other crazy shit that it's hard to keep track of it all. For example, the so-called 'Project 2025' is a list of some of the main diseased ideas which have been activated.
The GOP's wholesale rewriting of history continues, including their utter bullshit assertion that "Nixon was framed". Insane and really chilling to see what is crawling out from behind their curtain of 'God, Guns and Country' self-righteousness. (that is the title of a Mike Fuckabee book).
"Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal.
“We now know more about the deep state and its power and ability to literally change things at the top,” the lawmaker said during his remarks at the Nixon Foundation’s annual Grand Strategy Summit in Washington.
“An interesting aspect of this as it relates to Richard Nixon — he knew all of this,” Moore continued. “He knew it, and he stayed quiet about it. Because he didn’t want to erode the confidence of the American people in our system of governance and our institutions.”
“The truth is now out there, so I think people feel a bit more liberated to talk about Richard Nixon and what an amazing president he was in this country,” he concluded."
"Former Nixon aide Geoff Shepard was also reportedly invited by a senior DOJ official to give a presentation at the department’s headquarters, per The Wall Street Journal. Shepard has repeatedly asserted since the 1972 scandal that Watergate was a plot to hide who Nixon’s Democratic donors were in his reelection campaign."
"Geoff Shepard was an attorney on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff for five years and served as Deputy Counsel on his Watergate defense team. This book, the third in his series, is primarily based on four caches of internal prosecutorial documents that have surfaced in the past eight years. In each instance, Shepard was the first to review and analyze these materials—including descriptions of prosecutors’ secret meetings with Watergate judges, their suppression of exculpatory evidence, and their secret allegations regarding President Nixon’s own conduct. What makes Shepard’s works unique is his reliance on actual documents, many publicly available at the National Archives."
Your fuzzy headed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/spectacular-spectacled-owlet
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/b32f557e-6055-4c0c-a5f8-91ec335a6cce?utm_source=share
Have a nice weekend!
That owl can always get away with the now, where did I put my glasses? and you’re actually wearing them thing. How cute is that fuzzy babby?
I am imagining DJ's internal monologue, as he sits and looks around:
"What is this? Maid's day off? Nobody dusts anymore?"
*BEATS WINGS* with vigor...
"That's better..."
Thanks, Martini! I love owls! And very appropriate for October! Have a great weekend!
Lordy, I love an owl. Fuzzy owls somehow even more.
DJ Swab will get the room moving...
DJ Swab is a flapper. He missed his time 100 years.
Regarding executions ...
In an open thread comment yesterday, I detailed witnessing a state attorney, arguing before a judge, decline to rule out drowning as a possible form of execution. Seems fitting here also too.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/holy-ducking-shartballs-competitive/comment/350731419?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2m11fd
From the AP article on Ken Paxton's travel habits: "Texas does not require the attorney general to report his day-to-day whereabouts, and other state records do not often reveal the length or purpose of the out-of-state travel. Texas, however, keeps records for the monthly expenses incurred by his security detail. Those records show reimbursements for travel outside Texas spiked from about $30,000 in 2015 to nearly $400,000 in 2024."
FFS Ken, that is a lot of corruption for just one man in one state. Texas needs to start requiring the attorney general to report his whereabouts and why he is out of the state.
It's being breathlessly reported that Thom Tillis told trmp off in a series of texts, that were, evidently, "blistering", that he doesn't take bullshit from anyone. This is, of course, after he decided to retire.
Funny how they grow spines once they decide to leave office.
"You have made me very angry. Very angry indeed."
-- M. Martian
"The White House has told the Justice Department to slow-walk abortion-related actions until after November's midterm elections, according to a new report."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mwv7rzg4vc2o
Here's an idea:
You botch an execution, that's a FULL PARDON for the person. You are responsible for restoring them to health, and you do NOT get to try again.
It seems related to double jeopardy. You had your chance and f'ed it up.
"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate Seattle's court-appointed U.S. attorney Thursday, ruling the president acted unconstitutionally when he abruptly fired him, dealing another blow to the administration's workaround for installing prosecutors without Senate confirmation."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mwuey2zvkr2d
ARREST HIM! REMOVE HIM!
Absolute insanity our elected shitbags arent doing a damn thing.
And WE are letting them do it.
Local national tab:
Trump nominates 2 as new federal judges for NC, including James Comey prosecutor
In recent months multiple Republican judges around North Carolina have announced their resignations, allowing their party to try replacing them ahead of the November elections when Democrats could flip control of Congress.
"One of the nominees worked for the late Republican Sen. Jesse Helms. The other has been working on the prosecution of Trump political enemy James Comey, the former FBI director who oversaw an investigation into the Russian government’s involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign. ...
Federal judges serve lifetime appointments on the bench. While the president nominates federal judges, they can’t take office unless the Senate votes to approve them. Republicans currently hold 53 seats in the chamber.
Support from home-state senators is often key. And on Thursday the state’s two Republican U.S. senators, Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, quickly announced their support for Trump’s picks.
“Both Phil and Brian have built distinguished and respected legal careers, and I know that they will be exemplary additions to the district courts,” Budd said."
https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/trump-nc-federal-judge-nominee-tillis-budd-aubart-myers-james-comey-prosecutor-september-2026/
I tried to warn people in 2016 that judges were ALWAYS on the ballot but no one wanted to listen.
UGH!
This is fire,
"I am Jane Doe until none of us are Jane Doe"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9SwAggacO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
The "journalist" who is trying to out Jane Doe was once on Young Turks. Make of that what you will...
"The young crypto investors who fell in love with Donald Trump's embrace of the industry when he ran for president are now furious that he used them to enrich himself and his family."
'𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱?' 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀 '𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗯'
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mwssoehiew2i
BREAKING: Internet Magic Munnie is a SCAM, Part 156,988
hahahahaha idiots.
Credulous fucking rubes.
They sound jealous.
Ask yourself the same question, techno-grifter.
There is no honor among thieves.
Right???? Never enough money for these people.
FAFO!
Today's Promptoberfest trigger was 'sensation,' and the story continues: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/66554991/
Today's digital billboard sentiment on my commute...
Live Free or Die. Vote like you mean it!
I’ve started God Emperor of Dune but I may not finish it. It resembles the Robert Heinlein novels where his competent-man trope becomes a self-righteous caricature, where he philosophized for pages rather than tell a story. I Will Fear No Evil and Time Enough for Love. True, the Herbert novel has a promising allegory about vast power disconnecting a person from the rest of the human race, but his protagonist sees himself as a martyr for the greater good.
I tried to read the books after "Children of Dune" and noped out. Heinlein could have left it with the first book. I know his son wrote most of them after he died but I still think the first one was the only one I should have read.
Yeah, Leto II (electric boogaloo)'s visions aren't really described in any detail, but they hinted that if he hadn't become a tyrannical mutant the outcome would have been far worse.
I can see a MAGAt making the same argument, actually.
From The Iceman Cometh:
"I saw that if men wanted to be safe from themselves, that would mean they'd have to give up greed. They wouldn't pay that price for liberty. So I said to the world God bless all of you and may the best man win. Die of gluttony. I took a seat in the grand stand of philosophical detachment, to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/1/800106477/community/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it-and-not-one-second-before/
Now do your oldest son.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗛𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘀’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-claims-he-bombed-iran-partly-because-they-were-doing-drugs/
Apparently the Iranian ambassador showed up to negotiations completely baked, responding to every proposal with “Duuuuuuude!”
He can't even get his irrelevancies right. It's Afghanistan that produces the opium. They traffic into and through Iran, sure, but there aren't any 'factories.'
His dementia is advancing really, really quickly now. The speeches and responses to questions are just not connected to anything, never mind the topic at hand.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 '𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱' 𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mwv64kv2ug2t
Trump "explains": "They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. But these drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard."
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mwubv4qbpa2d
So, yeah, that's him handwaving away bombing pharmaceutical factories.
After Elon.
Who's "they" and what drugs? I doubt the Mullahs are getting high.
You know what party animals they are...
"They"= him.
What is it called when (or that?) a central infection or disease releases or activates many other latent diseases? . . . Damn it Jim, I'm an artist not a doctor!
What I mean is that the Trump Disease® has released so much other crazy shit that it's hard to keep track of it all. For example, the so-called 'Project 2025' is a list of some of the main diseased ideas which have been activated.
The GOP's wholesale rewriting of history continues, including their utter bullshit assertion that "Nixon was framed". Insane and really chilling to see what is crawling out from behind their curtain of 'God, Guns and Country' self-righteousness. (that is the title of a Mike Fuckabee book).
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"GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate" –https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/
"Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal.
“We now know more about the deep state and its power and ability to literally change things at the top,” the lawmaker said during his remarks at the Nixon Foundation’s annual Grand Strategy Summit in Washington.
“An interesting aspect of this as it relates to Richard Nixon — he knew all of this,” Moore continued. “He knew it, and he stayed quiet about it. Because he didn’t want to erode the confidence of the American people in our system of governance and our institutions.”
“The truth is now out there, so I think people feel a bit more liberated to talk about Richard Nixon and what an amazing president he was in this country,” he concluded."
If nothing else, fuck these guys for using 'coup' as a verb. 'Couped' out of office? Bite me.
Republican government?
In that same article this guy is referenced:
"Former Nixon aide Geoff Shepard was also reportedly invited by a senior DOJ official to give a presentation at the department’s headquarters, per The Wall Street Journal. Shepard has repeatedly asserted since the 1972 scandal that Watergate was a plot to hide who Nixon’s Democratic donors were in his reelection campaign."
Insane.
This bizarre video in on the 'National Archives' YouTube channel
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"The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President" –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4LO0o4NOW4
"Geoff Shepard was an attorney on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff for five years and served as Deputy Counsel on his Watergate defense team. This book, the third in his series, is primarily based on four caches of internal prosecutorial documents that have surfaced in the past eight years. In each instance, Shepard was the first to review and analyze these materials—including descriptions of prosecutors’ secret meetings with Watergate judges, their suppression of exculpatory evidence, and their secret allegations regarding President Nixon’s own conduct. What makes Shepard’s works unique is his reliance on actual documents, many publicly available at the National Archives."