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Affluenza and Political Pull at Work

Former Waco Attorney Adam Hoffman was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for his sexual abuse of a minor over the course of several years.

Initially charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, Attorney General Ken Paxton offered a plea deal to Hoffman lowering a felony and life in prison to two class A misdemeanors and 30 days in county jail. Hoffman pleaded guilty to indecent assault and displaying harmful material to a minor but was not granted his initial plea deal. Visiting Judge Roy Sparkman denied the 30 days and doubled the sentence to 60 days.

You know, don't you, that almost anyone else would have been sent away for years and then graduate from prison to the sexual offender registry, for life.

But because this clown is rich, white and connected to influential Texas politicians, he gets a slap on the wrist.

Feedstocks

This point is not original to me: Other than the computer/phone you are reading this on, you probably can easily reach and touch something made in east Asia that is made of plastics or synthetics. Those things are petrochemicals, which means that the base material is oil.

That oil comes from the Persian Gulf.

The last tankers that made it through the Strait of Hormuz before the war started are either in port or are making port. Since almost nobody keeps large supplies of raw materials on hand anymore (the whole world has gone just-in-time supply), the plastics makers are in trouble. That effects almost everything. Think of all the stuff that comes in plastic containers and bottles, like your prescriptions.

All of that stuff will be in short supply. Even if the war ends tomorrow, it'll take month, if not years, to get everything back to where it was.

And you can thank this clown for that:

Trump Takes Airline and 17,000 Jobs

Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it has gone out of business after 34 years.

The ultralow cost airline that once operated hundreds of daily flights on its bright yellow planes and employed about 17,000 people said it had “started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately.”

Although Spirit had gone bankrupt twice before, the company said high oil prices, which have been rising because of the war with Iran, made it impossible to stay aloft.

Make no mistake, Trump and Netanyahu are the ones who caused all of those people to lose their jobs. You might recall that a year ago, those two caused Iran's nuclear facilities to be bombed. Dimbulb Donnie claimed that Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated, but less than a year later, he felt the need to attack on the same rationale.

The price of jet fuel has nearly doubled and that drove Spirit under, because of his stupid war.

The ripple effect will spread far beyond those 17,000 employees and every last one of them who will now deal with the ramifications of sudden unemployment of Spirit's workers have one person to thank: Donald John Trump.

Caturday

Almost every evening, Priss spends the night in the garage, where she has food, water, a litter box and a heated bed. There is a window she can look out of.

But sometimes, when the door comes down, she goes to it, triggering the safety beam, and goes out for a few more minutes.

Or sometimes, if the weather's nice, she just stays out.

Drone-Hunting With a Yak-52

Pretty ingenious:

Because It's Friday

A British Decapod:

Shorter GOP: "There's No Reason Why Grandma Can't Go Work in the Mines."

John Sununu seems to be suggesting here that retirees need to work to receive Medicare coverage. That or he doesn't know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. pic.twitter.com/Z56TjwjfgS

— Lauren French (@laurennfrench) April 28, 2026

He seems to be a classical wealthy conservative, one that still believes in county work farms, poorhouses and putting the elderly on ice floes.

Or Sununu's cheese may have slid off his cracker.

John Roberts Law is Jim Crow Law 2.0

It takes an amazing amount of willful blindness for the Six Fascists on the USSC to pretend that there is no such thing as racial discrimination anymore. But that's what they did in the Callais decision.

Let's be blunt: Those fuckers would undo Brown v. Board of Ed. if they thought they could. They'd bring back Plessy v. Ferguson if the chance prevented itself.

It may be a stretch to say that they'd turn the 13th Amendment into a dead letter and restore chattel slavery if the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society outlined a plan to do so.

"John Crow Roberts"? "John Crow"?