You don’t generally need to get up early to see meteor showers but you will tend to do better after midnight local time. That’s because as the Earth moves along its orbit through the trail of debris left by the comet that created the shower, you are on the back of the planet in the afternoon and evening. Most meteors hit the atmosphere on the forward side of the planet. At midnight, you roll around to the front of the planet where most of the meteors will be most likely to appear.

Yeah, I could see how talking to Vance for five minutes causing a stroke.

They really are. The reason these people are so pro-Israel isn’t that they love Jews. it’s because the Bible says that in the end times, the Jews will return to Israel.

Yeah, because Trump is clearly trying to knock the house down.

This is nothing new for the GOP. The Texas GOP accidentally said the quiet part out loud in 2012.

From the Texas 2012 GOP Platform

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

This is why educational outcomes in red states are so bad, particularly in the south where the GOP often controls legislative and executive branches. People are scared of things they don’t understand so undermining education makes people easier to scare. Why do they want to scare people, you might ask? Because scared people tend to vote conservative.

Over the past few years, a number of experiments have begun to shed light on the relationship between emotion and political inclinations. “There’s empirical research that suggests that when people are primed with images of mortality—graveyards, hospitals, the elderly—this can move them to the right,” said John Hibbing, who directs the political physiology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Some studies suggest that people who are already conservative may be extra-sensitive to these images.

Mainly I think he is just setting up to blame Powell for all the damage that Trump’s policies are causing.

I hope you’re right.

If a black guy was pulled over with that much cash, the cops would civil forfeiture it because it is obviously proceeds from drug dealing.

I trust they are now investigating her ties to the drug trade?

I’m having a hard time maintaining my atheism. Trump’s continued existence is extremely compelling proof that there is a devil to sell your soul to.

Some Democrats have been sensitive to Republican attacks on their colleagues’ efforts to free Ábrego García, leading to internal friction over the issue.

Yeah, fuck those sensitive Democrats. Fuck them sideways with a pitchfork.

Judge Xinis is proceeding towards civil contempt. If she finds someone in willful contempt, she can imprison them until they choose to comply. And the evidence standard in civil contempt is “clear and convincing,” not “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

I did not know this. I hope that works.

I guess so. I just don’t see them doing that. They will want the next Republican President to benefit from it.

First they came for the DEI hires, but I said nothing because I was not a DEI hire.

Then they came for the DUI hires and I said nothing because I was too busy looking for the bottle of Johnny Walker in my desk.

There’s also not much point in going after the lieutenants. As long as it’s a federal court holding them in contempt, Trump can just pardon them. It’s happened before with Joe Arpaio. State level contempt would work if they could find a way to make that happen.

The only thing I can think of that SCOTUS to do right now to try and head this off would be to make a ruling defining what is or isn’t an official act. SCOTUS needs to sack up rule solidly against Trump. They need to state that, per the Constitution, only congress can declare war. The President has no authority to declare war and no other nations are invading the USA. Therefore, all deportations under the Alien Enemies Act are NOT official acts and therefore they are high crimes and misdemeanors.

This alone would not solve the problem if Trump continues to flip them off and ignore them which seems likely. It would however put the issue squarely in the House’s hands. If this conservative court plainly states that the president’s actions are illegal, the pressure on the House to impeach and the Senate to convict would be huge. With the houses nearly evenly split, an impeachment in the house would only take a few Republicans to cross over. The Senate would be tougher but not impossible. It would take something like 20 Republican Senators to vote with the Dems to convict him.

If that fails to happen, if the House or Senate fails in their duty after such a court ruling, I think we might finally see enough impetus to get major resistance among the people; even more massive protests than we’ve already seen, a general strike, work slow downs, maybe even blue states taking steps to secede.

It’s nice to see Trump can learn and grow. It wasn’t that long ago when he would have just scribbled it with a sharpie. Anyway, it must really annoy Trump that thanks to Senator Van Hollen’s visit, where he proved he could do what Trump admitted that he himself could not, we now have unadulterated photos of Garcia’s hand without the shitty photoshop.

The problem is that they are trying to do away with due process. They want to be able to throw anyone they want into a gulag in another country where they will disappear forever. They start with immigrants, claiming that they are gang members and terrorists. They are refusing to prove it because they want to set the precedent that they do not need to prove their claims. They start with alleged foreign gang members, then will come “homegrowns,” as Trump has called them.

If we don’t make them prove their claims now in a court of law, it’ll be that much harder to do it later, and they know it.

A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas had already blocked their removal—but the government sought to evade this order by busing the migrants into the Northern District of Texas, where the restraining order would not apply.

Judge: You may not deport these people until this case is decided.

DoJ/ICE: *busses people out of judge’s district* Fuck you, libtard.

This admin is a joke and an embarrassment. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so terrifying.

Yes. I would say this falls in the “high crime or misdemeanor” category.

Yep