The stunning example cited by Congresswoman Shri Thanedar is exactly correct. The Supreme Court of the USA ruled in the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Patel is breaking the law.
What next? A corrupt FBI Director.
Congress better not stand for this because they could be next. They have a Rouge president with henchmen on the cabinet and I the agencies
THIS IS MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.
There is no way this can stand unless Trump deports Judge Dugan to Russia on the next plane out.
The Supreme Court already ruled on illegal conduct by Trump. There are to be further hearings. Trump and Patel need to be arraigned for crimes of malicious prosecution and that is only the beginning.
Trump is having a hissy fit because his dictatorship is on hold by the USA Constitution and Due Process. Bondi is involved, otherwise Patel is riding high on his own ego.
Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Karl will have to deal with this. Judge Dugan was illegally arrested in Wisconsin. It is where she practices and lives. Basically, she is kidnapped by Patel and the ICE officers.
The lawful way of dealing with decisions by judges is through appeals. The appeals to rulings in favor of Americans are moving along quickly. There is absolutely no reason for such radical episodes like this. The public has a right to know the charges OTHER than she ruled in favor of immigrants. A judge’s ruling is not a basis for criminal charges. Even if corrupt there are impeachment proceedings that should be conducted.
Kristi Nome is somewhere in this mix, too. What a great Homeland Security Secretary she is; she can’t even protect her own handbag (click here).
Hannah Dugan (click here)
Thursday, April 24, 2025
A loss so young is difficult to reconcile.
Molly McGovern passed today. Sometimes life just isn’t fair. Condolences to US House Representative Jim McGovern, his spouse, Molly’s brother, as well as family and friends.
Senator Durbin will be missed.
Senator Durbin has steadied the ship for many years. His leadership has been strong and moral, always taking the high road. I don’t remember one day of hubris or leadership tainted with the wrong path for the USA. If anything Senator Durbin conducted strong moral influence over policy written and passed into law serving all Americans.
Thank you for decades of effective moral leadership.
Thank you, Governor Pritzker.
When you are right, you are right and Governor Pritzker is right.
This democracy is build on fundamental human rights AND fairness. We are innocent until proven guilty. Within that understanding there is a clear definition of Due Process. I might point out Donald Trump enjoyed Due Process when he was arrested. Yet, he would deny it to others.
This clearly illustrates what is very wrong with the illegal use of the ancient law Trump found ARA (Alien Enemies Act). The ARA is used at a time of war and quite frankly even FDR never used it during WWII. Don’t confuse exile with detainment.
If such a provision in the law could be conjured up at any time even in times of domestic peace, we would never have a reasonable domestic peace. If such chaos were allowed to be used at will rather than within the boundaries of the definitions in the law, people would have undergrounds and methods of hiding that became a way of life.
El Salvador and the USA share many treaties, including United Nations conventions. It appears El Salvador has stepped outside those treaties to facilitate a prisoner exchange with Venezuela that otherwise would not occur. Mr. Trump managed to corrupt even international agreements.
I wish Governor Pritzket great success in reclaiming Due Process as well as international order.
Malicious Prosecution
Get used to the idea Trump and Gun Moll Bondi are going to file false charges. There will be investigations that are way out of line. What will have to occur is State Attorney Generals will have to counter file with charges against Trump and Bondi.
People and businesses have a primary address. That is the State Attorney to report malicious intent by the federal government.
Want to be an oligarch?
Buy a dinner and all corruption is possible. He is violating the ISA Constitution. But, his entire presidency to date violates something about the moral content of American life and law.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Here is a new twist on problems with the federal government.
Hm?
But, is killing a reproducing female actually harm?
Yeah, it is.
Do I think this was an mistake? No. I think someone is trying to keep their job or better to prove loyalty to Trump. The species carries the name Mexican. What else is there to say?
This is the second female to be found dead and/or killed in less than a month. Ella, the delightfully wandering female was found dead with an investigation to determine the cause of death. I don't think either of these deaths were necessary.
Ella in her wandering manner was teaching us a great deal about Mexican Wolf Habitat. It is easy to say the extent of their range in the USA was grossly under reported. Ella showed up they considered their homeland to extend far further north than originally reported.
That is the problem with threatened and endangered species, there are too few of them to accurately know why the numbers are dwindling. Ella, was showing up simply by the nature of her consistent wander the habitat was too confining.
The Mexican gray wolf (click here) who just last week was located north of Interstate 40 near Mount Taylor in New Mexico was found dead on Sunday, March 30, 2025. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has indicated that the cause of Ella’s death is under investigation. She was named “Ella” by schoolchildren and her intrepid spirit was the subject of news coverage over the weekend.
“We’re deeply saddened that her journey has come to an end, because her roaming was teaching us about where Mexican gray wolves choose to be,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project. “The agencies insist on keeping wolves south of Interstate 40 in Arizona and New Mexico based on the ‘historic range’ of the species, but wolves like Ella live in the present and they are showing us their species’ future is in an expanded northern range.”...
Mexican Grey Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) (click here)
By Lisa Friedman
The Trump administration (click here) is moving to effectively eliminate a crucial protection in the half-century-old Endangered Species Act by redefining a single word: harm.
A proposed rule, issued on Wednesday from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would repeal a longstanding interpretation of what it means to harm imperiled plants and animals to exclude the destruction of habitat....
By John Leos
A federal wildlife agency “mistakenly” (click here) killed an endangered and possibly pregnant breeding-age Mexican gray wolf in Greenlee County, according to a memo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The killing occurred after officials issued a lethal removal order for an uncollared wolf from the Bear Canyon wolf pack on April 7 in response to a series of attacks on livestock grazing on public land.
The order, signed by Brady McGee, the Mexican wolf coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, authorized the USDA’s Wildlife Services to kill one uncollared wolf from the pack, but preserve the breeding female wolf, known as AF1823, who was wearing a nonfunctioning radio collar.
“It is our intent not to remove the breeding female (wearing a nonfunctioning radio collar) who will likely whelp a new litter of pups soon,” stated the order....
By Kurt Repanshek
U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, (click here) the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, didn't hesitate when asked what he thought the Trump administration's goal was with its approach to the environment and land-management agencies.
"I think it's chaos, in a nutshell," the Californian said while recording the National Parks Traveler's upcoming podcast. "And it's the same thing that we see across the board, from their economic policy to their social policy to their foreign policy. Chaos is the point. Chaos is the feature. And it is, frankly, how authoritarians divide us and overwhelm us and consolidate power.
"That may be a little bit of an academic answer to your question, but I think it's the moment we're in, and no part of government is untouched by that agenda, including our public lands," added Huffman....
Pressure to concede.
This is Trump’s thing. He chronically carries a white flag and that is not new. He is a weak president and because of that the USA is compromised. As a compromised country with a weak president we are not good partners at any peace table.
Trump does not understand nor cares to understand if the USA concedes it’s strength to communists they will continue to demand more and more concessions even after the peace agreement is signed at a huge ceremony.
Trump does NOT get it.
Trump wants the ceremony. What happens to get it doesn’t matter to him.
The world is on to him. He gets played all the time. He got played by Musk and the problems the USA is facing because of Trump’s lack of character is enormous.
The EU should continue peace talks.
Trump is irrelevant. That picture alone proves the threat. NATO must remain uncompromised.
Trump is unable and/or unwilling to protect the USA national security with a Secretary of Defense allowing insecure communications at the time the USA military is engaged in strategic actions.
He loved the simple, faithful of God.
Pope Francis loved the people. Easter Sunday was typical of a papal truth in that God loves the flock. Francis just exuded his devotion to faith and exemplified God’s love of the faithful. It truly was the way he saw his final
hours.
Regardless, of advice to remain at rest on Sunday it was not in his character to put himself and his physical body first. Easter Sunday belonged to the faithful. Pope Francis, as God’s messenger, needed to let the faithful know of the miracle of faith and the love God has for them.
Keeping with his practice throughout his life his funeral proceedings reflect the humility he demanded of himself and all those surrounding him. Pope Francis’ caretakers respected his expression of faith during his time as Pope and continues that respect until his final resting place.
He will be missed. The conclave to decide his successor will be set for sometime in May. Until then Pope Francis will remain at the heart of the Roman Catholic faith.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
That says it all doesn’t it?
Admiration by one murderer of another. I take it Trump is not complaining about it being an ugly portrait of himself?
There is no other president in history that would accept such a thing to be placed anywhere near him. Only, Trump.
That is Trump’s graduation present. He graduated from the Putin school of governance. Correspondence course is my understanding.
The school motto is kill ‘em first and ask questions later. Or maybe no questions at all.
No accountability.
That is what is missing here. After at least 50 years since Nixon; Americans have been holding their elected officials responsible for the truth and accountability. Now, according to the Trump administration, none of that is necessary.
Lying to the electorate is okay.
Turning their backs on responsibility is okay.
Being held accountable when things go wrong is old world.
The only thing that matters is loyalty to Trump.
Shame on everyone.
The American people are watching.
Continued damage to USA national security.
The greatest strength the USA has to national security is not the military alone. The USA, over decades of time, developed allies and friends sharing common moral grounds and now Trump and his minions are destroying it.
Trump is not interested in protecting lives or ending human rights abuses. Trump wants to exert power afforded him by the nature of the USA to bring suffering and quite frankly to kill people. He is a moron and an idiot that likes feeling like a militarized strong man, but, he doesn’t even come close.
National security is A BALANCE of power. When that balance of power is gone people start to die and it isn’t because of old age.
The mentally ill moron occupying the White House dominated by another meat head with a lot of money has absolutely no clue how the world works or what respect for quality of life looks like.
They will never care about what is important to Americans so don’t bother trying. They need to be removed from power to protect life. With them people are and will continue to die. Without them the world has a chance of survival with humanity at the forefront.
The State Department has grown enormously over time and the benefits from that cannot be measured. Trump and the teenyboppers of DoGE believe they have a right to raid the USA Treasury pretending the entire time it is for the benefit of the people. This arrogance is everywhere in this administration all the way ftom the corruption of plans for Greenland and Canada to Junior’s belief the USA National Forests and Parks were preserved for him to now clear cut for personal profit. I don’t remember reading USA history where Teddy Roosevelt stated, “Protect the woods as Don, Junior needs a life somewhere down the timeline of the county.”
This administration is stupid, naive, and believes the very lies they use to carry out their national security compromising racketeering.
WE ARE LESS SAFE TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE IN USA HISTORY!
Companies are leaving the USA.
I am going to brag a little bit. I have a rather interesting family. We all seem to do well. Of course, we all have moments of faltering, but, for the most part life goes on as it should and we are appreciated as employees and/or independent business owners.
Today, it nearly blew me away to realize companies with headquarters in allied countries are leaving completely from this country. Lock, stock, and barrel; gone.
A nephew of mine. Very talented man. Has a family as well as a large extended family was told the company was moving back to their headquarters. Just like that, out of the blue, this very talented man’s reality and hopes for advancement over time vanished.
He was offered a different position in the company, but, it would mean leaving his life here, uprooting his family, and living abroad. Not only that, but, because headquarters has very few openings and lots of competition the chances of moving up the ladder was over.
He respectfully declined the job offer and was provided a wonderful reference for at least ten years with the company. He arrived home to break the news to his spouse. There were some tears, but, as the evening progressed my nephew scrolled through names of friends and companies he had a relationship before and ran across a job he left behind a long time ago. First thing in the morning he contacted said company, asked if there were any openings, and sure enough he was rehired within the hour. He is going to be able to work from home because travel time one way is hours from his home.
There is some opportunity for advancement over time, so this job is basically an interim position until other possibilities are explored over the next year.
This is the reality today in the USA because of the losing Trump economy. Companies from allied countries are finding the USA dangerous for people with Visas or are naturalized citizens. These companies don’t want the trauma of dealing with a federal administration out of control and racist. People are afraid and quite frankly they should be. Never before in all my adult life has the expression, “Be afraid, be very afraid,” clearly defined the day.
Trump’s oath of office is to ensure domestic tranquility. He is violating his oath and stirring a pot boiling over in confusion.
Trump needs to be impeached. He is breaking the back of this country while being unable to lead so much as hate. Trump has mental health problems. He CANNOT be trusted with the Executive Branch of the United States of America.
I don’t lie. This is happening and no wonder Wall Street dropped 1000 points today.
Monday, April 21, 2025
It is a beautiful tribute.
(Click here)
CNN put together a beautiful tribute to Pope Francis. I looked at every one of the photos. Thank you.
Pope Francis was the first Pope to talk about Earth as our common home. It meant a great deal. He was a magnificent person all his life. It would be lovely if the Vatican published a book of Pope Francis, his writings, and expressions of his love of Earth,
(Click here)
All other teaching institutions,…
…regardless of public or private need to join this lawsuit and hold government and it’s leaders responsible for the financial attack on them.
USA ICE officers…
…by order of the President will have been involved in the murder of these men. Trump is committing cold blooded murder. This is what he is capable of including Americans he wants to deport to foreign prisons.
Trump and his ICE agents could now be facing violations in international law.
This is what Congressional Republicans are sanctioning. This is Mitch McConnell’s “wait and see.” Cold blooded murder of a protected class of Venezuelans.
Trump is closing the USA borders, not to keep people out, but, to keep Americans in. We are not safe. ICE officers need to rethink what the result comes from Trump’s orders.
(Click here)
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