Rachel Maddow was having, as usual, #TooMuchFun with the self-inflicted Trumpian disasters as his first 100 days neared its end, and in particular gave her audience the details of a particularly heinous Trumpian crime in Oklahoma that has roused even more Resistance nationwide. She took particular pleasure in replaying the coverage from a local TV station in Oklahoma two days running, with new details yesterday.
KFOR: ‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
The FBI and the Marshall’s Service denied that they were even at the scene, and then they and ICE refused to answer any questions at all. The only real evidence we have is two receipts claiming that HSI/Homeland Security Investigations took the phones, money, etc. It was apparently the previous occupants of the home that were meant to be targeted, but there are no admission of responsibility, no apologies, no returned property or cash...I don’t know how this is going to wash out, other than #CUInCourt for major actual damages and many millions in punitive damages.
HSI
HSI protects what matters most – our country, our people and our future. What makes us unique is the global nature of the crimes we investigate and the broad legal authorities available to us to combat them.
As if.
Chris Hayes was doing one of his trademark rants yesterday.
Chyron: Trump Squanders Strong Economy in Just 100 Days
from a prediction of 3% growth before the Trump inauguration, to negative 0.3% in the first quarter.
NYT [paywalled]: Trump, on Tariffs, says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30’
Whatever it is, the public is against it. Destruction of trade, immigration, education, foreign aid, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid...I can’t list all of the polling where the co-Presidents are massively under water. I will note that Tesla profits are down 71%, a figure that bears much repeating, and that Elon Musk says he is cutting back on DOGE activities this month, and getting back to his businesses.
Some, of course, want to send him to Mars instead.
And It’s May Day!
How do you plan to celebrate?
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them
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Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead.
This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend
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— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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BREAKING: Early this morning in a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the deportation of any Venezuelan men held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.
We'll keep fighting to defend due process.
— ACLU (@aclu.org) April 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Here are two ways for you to tell what the paskudnyaks are up to. First, MAGA businesses wanted a place to join together in repudiating DEI, without thinking that everyone else could use it as their boycott list.
IBM Reportedly Walks Back Diversity Policies, Citing ‘Inherent Tensions’: Here Are All The Companies Rolling Back DEI Programs
What Is The National Center For Public Policy Research?
A conservative think tank, the group pushes shareholder resolutions at many companies that would roll back corporate DEI and environmental regulations. The group launched its Free Enterprise Project in 2007 to combat what it calls the “woke takeover of American corporate life” through these proposals
CNBC: Amazon sellers raise prices after Trump’s China tariff: ‘It’s unsustainable’
Amazon merchants are hiking prices for everything from diaper bags and refrigerator magnets to charm necklaces and other top-selling items as they confront higher import costs. E-commerce software company SmartScout tracked 930 products on Amazon that have seen increased prices since April 9, with an average jump of 29% in categories, including clothing, jewelry, household items, office supplies, electronics and toys.
Amazon says it’s not planning to show tariff costs next to product listings
No, no, no, no. That was just its Haul subsidiary. No, Massa, we wouldn’t think of taking such a “hostile and political” action, Mr. President Trump, Sir.
Trump meets with Cabinet and praises policies that have sparked pushback
Because of course DEI CRT Handsoff 50501 Soshulist Weirdo mind poisoners don’t know what’s good for us, do we? according to them.
Regular Good News
Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness (Legitimate or Stupid)!
The Planetary Society: Science, industry, and advocacy groups unite in opposition to deep cuts to NASA science
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Visible planets and night sky guide for April and May
Tonight, see Jupiter near the Moon. Then, the Eta Aquariids shower peaks May 5-6. May's full moon is the Full Flower Moon on May 12-13.
Plus so much more!
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h/t @earthskyscience.bsky.social 🔭🧪
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— San Jose Astronomical Association (@sjastronomy.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
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“For decades, MS-13 thugs have identified themselves by wearing black gowns and carrying around wooden hammers with which they could enact their sick sense of gangland justice,” said FBI director Kash Patel
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— The Onion (@theonion.com) April 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
P. D. Q. Bach and More
P.D.Q. Bach - The Art of the Ground Round
Muppet Songs: Glenda Jackson and the Pirates - The Walloping Window Blind
Glenda Jackson, as a pirate queen, hijacked The Muppet Show and took it to sea.
