Glenn Kirschner – In Hannity interview, defendant Trump admits to obstruction of justice, reveals his motive
Ring of Fire – Fox News Makes Terrible Decision To Let Hosts Testify At Dominion Trial
Robert Reich – Debunking Criticisms of Donald Trump’s Indictment
Patrick Fitzgerald – The Song of Alvin Bragg
Woman Moves Feral Cat Into Her Bathroom
Beau – Let’s talk about McCarthy, budgets, and the debt ceiling….
Glenn Kirschner – Defendant Trump arraigned on 34 FELONY CHARGES! And it looks like he has co-conspirators.
MSNBC – Lawrence: Presumption of Trump’s innocence ‘only applies in the courtroom’
Farron Balanced – Trump Ignores Judges Order And Starts Attacking His Entire Family
Brent Terhune – DONT LOCK HIM UP
Puppy Won’t Let Senior Rescue Dog Sleep Alone
Beau – Let’s talk about SECDEF vs Republicans….
I don’t know for sure whether Glenn skipped a day… but he was very , very late, and the monthly review is coming up, so I thought I’d just use ths today.
Steve Schmidt reacts to Trump’s remarks after pleading not guilty to 34 felony charges
CNN – SE Cupp says ‘no one should care’ about GOP outrage over Trump indictment
Thom Hartmann – Fascists Ban First Graders From Singing Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus song?
Randy Rainbow – Grumpy Trumpy Felon from Jamaica in Queens! (Seeing as how the song on which this is based is older than I am, I’ll share the title: “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B”)
Couple Buys A Farmhouse That Came With 16 Cats
Beau – Let’s talk about Russia, North Korea, and missteps…
Glenn Kirschner – Will judge impose gag order to stop defendant Trump’s lies, threats & inciting imminent lawlessness?
MSNBC – SCOTUS under new ethics rule thanks to Sen. Whitehouse
Ring of Fire – Elise Stefanik Promised Trump That House GOP Would Handle Alvin Bragg (I’m with Farron)
Six13 – The Prince of Egypt (for Passover CE 2023)
Pittie Is Obsessed With Her New Cinderella Carriage
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump, political reactions, and personal opinions….
Yesterday, the forecast predicted snow after 8:00 pm. Not unexpected in April ( or even in May), but for most of last week snow had been in the prediction for yesterday, and then for a couple of days it wasn’t predicted, and them it came back at the last minute. Also, within 6 days – next Monday – we’re supposed to expect a high of 80°F. Again, not entirely unexpected in April. As a person who grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula, the weather here continues to surprise me. One of the reasons I wanted to live in Colorado was that I wanted to experience four seasons. I just didn’t expect them to be all in the same week.
Last night NBC projected
Cartoon – 05 veto RTL + Passover
Short Takes –
Axios – Trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts in hush-money case
Quote – Former President Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in a Manhattan criminal court related to 2016 hush money payments…. The historic indictment of the only president to be impeached twice has unified the Republican Party around him. Nearly every Republican in elected office has defended Trump and decried the indictment as politically motivated — with only a few prominent GOP defectors…. While that message is playing well with GOP voters, a new CNN poll indicates that 60% of Americans approve of the indictment.
Click through for more information. Here it is – the story we’ve all been waiting for – and now we can take a deep breath and start waiting for the next thing – whatever that may be. There are many possibilities.
Mother Jones – This Race Could Decide the Fate of Democracy in Wisconsin—and the 2024 Election
Quote – [I]f Daniel Kelly, a former conservative justice who criticized Hagedorn as “supremely unreliable” and was defeated by a liberal justice in April 2020, had still been on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Trump’s effort to overturn the election in Wisconsin likely would have succeeded, plunging the state and the nation into a constitutional crisis. Now Kelly is running again for his old job against Janet Protasiewicz, a progressive judge in Milwaukee County[.]
Click through for details. I’ve written about this before. Yesterday was the day. Robert Reich and Mary Trump also weighed in (with similar views.)
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – While Trump gets prosecuted in NY, the classified documents/MAL/obstruction of just case heats up!
The Lincoln Project – Indictment Requiem
Thom Hartmann – New GOP Motto Reveals Their Real Agenda
Liberal Redneck – Trump Indictment (For Real Though)
18-Pound Cat Decides To Be Dad To Teeny Kitten
Beau – Let’s talk about Disney vs Florida….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s attorney Tacopina spouts nonsense on TV; why Trump’s statute of limitations claim will fail
MSNBC – New Fox emails: CEO says Trump fact-checks are ‘bad for business’
Farron Balanced – Jim Jordan’s Report On ‘Weaponization’ Of Government Blows Up In His Face
Mark Russell died last week, aged 93. I surely remember him – there don’t seem to be any short clips from his prime, but he made this when h was 80.
Dog Dumped At The Shelter Discovers The Great Outdoors
Beau – Let’s talk about Nebraska, allies, and holding the line….
Yesterday, looking at the coverage, I decided thatright now we know as much about Trump**’s legal issues as we are going to know until he is arraigned, when the indictment will be unsealed. So instead of speculating, I’m going to feature other news today, and probably tomorrow, since I work ahead. So hopefully I won’t mention him again until Wednesday (with the possible exception of in the Video Thread.) So take a deep breath and go into a holding pattern for a while, and I’ll do the same. There is plenty of other news. If you must speculate, or just really want to, I recommend Joyce Vance’s “The Week Ahead” on her Substack. She is knowledgeable and cool-headed, and covers a number of “if”s which are likely to upset some people no matter how they are decided
Cartoon – 03 Cell RTL
(It weighed 2.5# – just over a kilo – and was nicknamed “the brick.” But it worked.)
Short Takes –
SPLC – TRASHING THEIR RIGHTS: ALABAMA TOWN USES ‘DEBTORS’ PRISON’ FOR PEOPLE WHO FALL BEHIND ON GARBAGE BILLS
Quote – Even though the concept of “debtors’ prison” has been declared unconstitutional, the town of Valley was dragged into the spotlight for its practice of arresting people who could not pay their bills. In November, 82-year-old Martha Menefield was arrested for owing $77 for trash pickup. Her story went viral online, and national media outlets carried it through several news cycles because of how preposterous the situation sounded. But Menefield’s case was not unusual. The city of Valley has been arresting its citizens for years over past-due trash bills, adding hundreds if not thousands of dollars to the owed amount in fines and court costs by the poorest of its residents.
Click through for story. Sorry about the shouting headline, though I can’t very well maintain shouting is not appropriate.
DU (LiberalArkie) – Google Co-Founder, Other Billionaires Are Issued Subpoenas in Lawsuit Over JPMorgan’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Quote – The U.S. Virgin Islands issued subpoenas this week to Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz to gather information for its civil lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. over the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, according to people familiar with the matter.
Click through for a bit more. The source of the story is the WSJ, but it is paywalled. My respect for the USVI continues to increase. Stacey Plaskett is the House delegate from there. She’s not entitled to a vote on the floor, but she’s so competent she was an impeachment manager over Trump**, and she’s a ranking member on at least one Committee. Statehood for PR, DC, and USVI!
Food For Thought
