Two Cases Show How Racist and Evil the Roberts Court is

In 2006, the Court, in Purcell v. Gonzales, held that election changes should not be made just before a vote, to avoid confusing voters. But in the aftermath of the Callais case, the majority of Roberts' Calvinball Court has been tripping over themselves to allow the Confederate states to redo their congressional districts mere days before the primaries and, in the case of Louisiana, while voting had already begun.

The takeaway is this: Whatever the Fascist Six on the Court can do to promote white districts and eliminate majority-Black districts, they will do. The Klan Six may believe that the Voting Rights Act was obsolete, but every action taken by the states of the Old Confederacy since Callais have shown that the VRA is as necessary today as it was in 1965.

Oh. Monsieur Roth, You Have No Idea

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the city’s ultra-rich residents to help patch a $5.4 billion fiscal hole is getting pushback from the ultra-rich, at least one of whom believes “tax the rich” is akin to a racial slur.

Steven Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, used his company’s earnings call on Tuesday to complain about Mamdani’s rhetoric.

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich,’ quote, tax the rich, when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs ― and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth told investors on the call.

He has no idea how much the ultra-rich are despised. He doesn't have a clue that we know that they've been getting richer and richer while the rest of us have been scraping by.

This graph goes to only 2015, but it shows the trend.

2017:

Housing costs keep going up:

Since 1980, median family income has risen by about 50%, the income of the rich have more than doubled. People who know the constant struggle of paying rent, buying food, health insurance and fuel know that things aren't getting any better for them. But it's getting better for the rich.

But to putzim like Roth, pointing this out is hate speech. Taxing the rich at a higher rate is hate speech.

Well, if he thinks that's hate speech, then here's a response for him:

Things Have Been Busy

And tomorrow I've got a stint of Charon duty for a friend's cat.

Gloving These Down, Here

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The Skyraider, a/k/a the Spad:

The Spad, the E-1 and the S-2 were the last carrier-based reciprocating-engined aircraft. To say that the Navy was glad to get gasoline-fueled aircraft off its carriers is a severe understatement.

It's Like a Stupid Variant of Nixon Is President

An email from President Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles ordering staff to stop leaking to the press was leaked to the press on Friday.

In the directive, written in late March and obtained by Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Wiles warned that “no staff member within the Executive Office of the President is permitted to speak with members of the news media without the explicit approval of the White House Communications Office.”

J. Edgar Boozer's also trying to crack down on leaks.

Maybe if they were better at their jobs, nobody'd care.

Caturday

Chip, fresh from sharing eyeliner tips with JD Vance:

Alabama- Racist to the Core

Someone else pointed out that it took Alabama fourteen years to implement Brown v. Board of Ed., which was mandatory, and fourteen days after LA v. Callais to redistrict to eliminate majority Black districts, which was not mandatory.

Wherever the states of the Confederacy can bend towards racial discrimination, they will do so.

Because It's Friday

Brit steam.

The South Proves Why the Voting Rights Act Existed

The modern Confederacy is moving as fast as it can to erase majority Black congressional districts. They are doing exactly the same shit that caused Congress to enact the Voting Rights Act and reauthorize it time and time again.

The Worst Chief Justice in American History keeps saying his court only calls balls and strikes based on the Constitution. That is a bald-faced lie and even they know it. The Supreme Court is a malign political force and it needs to be counteracted like any other such entity.

Bulling These Down, Here

Or the saddest.

Why does literally every situation, every conversation, without fail, have to come back around to be about HIM somehow? It’s narcissism on another level.

— USED TO BE G.O.P. (@Used_To_Be_GOP) April 29, 2026

Yes, Mr. Trump, you are perfectly fit to be an astronaut.
You can do anything be anything.
Maybe next you can personally fly an F35, singlehandedly win the Iran war, and fix the global economy before dinner.
The world is eagerly waiting.

— OmerC (@StructSkeptic) April 29, 2026

J. Edgar Boozer's Gifts

He gives away personalized bottles of bourbon.

The FBI has traditionally had a zero-tolerance approach to unauthorized use of alcohol on the job and for its misuse while off duty. But that standard is bending under Patel’s leadership, one former agent told me. “It is so weird and uncomfortable,” this person said. Another former agent described the bottles as “demoralizing,” because they suggest one set of standards for the director and another for the rest of the bureau.

One might bet that the makers of Woodford Reserve are less than please to be publicly linked to the Trump Administration's shorter alcohol abuser.

The article notes that FBI agents are worried about the reputational damage that Patel is doing to the agency. IMO, that ship has sailed.

Both the World's Richest Man and the World's Most Sensitive Snowflake, All in One Package

In case you wondered if somebody could ever be such a insecure snowflake that they'd use their parents as online sock-puppets, then wonder no more: I give you Elon Musk:

A now-deleted tweet from Maye Musk, Elon Musk's biological mother, replied to a post from her son on Tuesday by referring to herself in the third person, leading some social media users to speculate that Musk was posting as his parents and had forgotten to switch to the correct account.

"My grandmother was a housekeeper in England," Musk, who owns X, posted on Tuesday. Musk's mother replied: "Your mom told me she was cleaning toilets in a Liverpool boarding house as a child. When I met her in 1966, she was sewing linings for a furrier in a small windowless room behind the store."

Social media users were quick to express confusion over the reply, arguing that Musk likely meant to post it from his father's account. “Elon’s mom caught posting from the perspective of Elon’s dad," one X user said, remarking on the bizarre reply.

This is from the guy that is so short of self-worth that he faked being a gamer.

All that distracts from his stellar accomplishment of starving hundreds of thousands of kids to death. Which Musk doesn't care about, because the people affected are mostly Black Africans and, as everyone should know by now, Musk and Trump are racist to the marrow of their bones.

Gorka Goes After the Imaginary Enemies in Trump's Head

“Violent left-wing extremists” and “extremist transgender ideology” are among the most concerning threats facing the country, according to the Trump administration counterterrorism strategy released Wednesday.

The strategy, the first released in President Donald Trump’s second term, underscores how Trump’s priorities differ from predecessors, listing “violent left-wing extremists” as one of its top three focuses, alongside “narcoterrorists” and “Islamist terrorists.”

"Violent transgendered terroists" sounds like either a bad punk rock band or some fevered demented dream of Commandante Bone Spurs.

Any fair analysis of domestic terrorist attacks in this country over the last thirty years will show that the perps are overwhelmingly white far-right men. There are three domestic terrorists sitting on Federal Death Row and two of them are white men who were trying to spark a race war.

But right-wing terrorists are Trump's people, which is why he's sent one of his pet Nazi thugs on a crusade to find nonexistent terrorists.

RFK,Jr and the Antivaxxers are Killing Babies

The executive summary: Because parents are opting out of having newborns given Vitamin K shots at birth. children are dying needlessly.

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot, research shows, are 81 times more likely than those who do to develop late vitamin K deficiency bleeding, where in many cases oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Perhaps most alarming is that, according to the CDC, 1 in every 5 babies with vitamin K deficiency bleeding will die. ... Many more babies survive the bleeding but suffer massive brain bleeds and lasting injuries.

Preventable deaths because of antivaxxers and addlepated morons like RFK,jr, who is nothing but a closeted Nazi eugenicist.

Off to the Rubber Gun Squad

A NYPD captain managed to mouth himself out of a precinct command to a job on the Rubber Gun Squad by being in uniform, on duty, and publicly slamming the mayor.

Odds are that he'll be given a bare desk and nothing to do for forty hours a week until he puts in his retirement papers.

Any Democrat Who Doesn’t Run on This is a Fool

Trump's ballroom, which he said was going to cost $200 million, then $300 million, and will be built with private donations is now going to cost taxpayers $1 billion.

You know that Emperor Bone Spurs's Temu Versailles addition was never going to be built with his money or with private donations, as he swore up and down it would be. He was always going to stick the taxpayers with its cost.

As the cost of gas keeps climbing, farmers get pushed into bankruptcy, airlines fail, the cost of everything else goes up because of rising cost of oil, and as this stupid war with Iran costs multiple tens of billions of dollars, he is laser-focused on his ballroom.

That's the only thing he cares about.

The wrecking ball swings on 1-21-2029.

Trump Trashes the DoJ

For those who know something about the legal profession, this is gobsmacking:

For decades, working for the DoJ has been considered a plum job for attorneys. The best and the brightest wanted to work there. For those who had ambition, it could be a pathway to a well-paid career. Unless you had some pull somewhere, you wren't getting in without graduating from a decent law school with a high class standing.

But now, under Trump/Bondi/Blanche, the DoJ will not only take anyone they can get (kind of like the Army during the Iraq War), they're offering signing bonuses. Which tells you that they're not geting the best and the brightest, they're recruiting from the clowns at the bottom of their class ranking in lower tier 4 law schools.

The reputation that will now come with working for Trump's Legal Department will put one at a firm that chases fender-benders, offers cheap divorces and closes deals on trailers. Because the employment market for partisan goons is not that great and will become even worse as this administration sinks into the morass of the bottom of the reputational pile.

Fingering These Down, Here

Sure looks as though Pee-Wee German is hiding behind his very pregnant wife:

Every One of These Clowns Should be Identified, Prosecuted and Executed

During the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, wealthy European hunters paid tens of thousands of dollars to go on a "Sarajevo Safari" and shoot people who were in the city of Sarajevo. They paid bonuses to be able to shoot pregnant women. The Italians are formally investigating this.

Everybody involved should do the Tyburn Jig. Their fortunes should be liquidated and paid to the people of Sarajevo, for they are all Nazi-grade war criminals

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