You’re a chatty bunch!
There was a bunch of legal news in recent days I’ll return to: judgements against Whiskey Pete, Kari Lake, DHS, and Elon Musk. Plus, Pam Bondi has started dismissing charges against Cities Church protestors (the Don Lemon case).
Trump’s Iran war looks likely to set off a famine (because fertilizer can’t get out of the Gulf), Iran just shot two 4,000 mile missiles; they were unsuccessful, but suggest Trump’s claims of total Iranian military defeat were, big surprise, premature. And he claims he may wind it down, but is sending thousands more Americans to risk their lives.
All that will have to wait, because it is sunny and there is art that must be viewed.
Meanwhile – gotta change these these White House columns. Have you seen my ballroom?
And the war is winding down. Can I have $200 billion more for the military? Killing bad guys costs money.
Let’s get down on our knees and pray to Jesus – this is a Holy War.
Oh well….
$1 billion per day in Iran and no public hearings. Pop-up wars all over the globe. International shipping gridlocked. And now famine looming. Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, anyone? Trump already brought us Pestilence with the COVID pandemic in his first term, so what else can we expect? War is raging….
Enjoy the art show!
At this point I think maybe we shouldn’t try to discourage his “executive time”, it might be the only thing that keeps him away from the big red button. I almost wish he would go back to wrecking the Whitey House rather than wrecking the economy.
We’re talking about the President of the United States like he’s a toddler, lying about breaking the cookie jar with chocolate all over his face. I’m really getting frustrated that a large part of this country is good with that.
Flipping through my back pages landed me in seventh grade reading Of Mice and Men.
Did we wind up with a president Lannie or what ?
No coffee
president Lennie
Back to the simpler days of “covfefe” in the morning…
More evidence that a full-blown recession is baked in.
In a letter to employees with a lot of of rah-rah patting himself on the back,
United Airlines CEO describes their flight reductions,
combined voluntary and involuntary due to the war, as
“our current plan” is doing a lot of work there.
https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125448
Are you kidding, a “president” with a plan?
Message from United CEO Scott Kirby to Employees: ‘WE’RE READY, WE HAVE A PLAN AND WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE EXECUTING THAT PLAN’
Also, is he planning to pay all the TSA people as about 1/3 of them are not on the job and many others will probably leave which I’d say kind of affects his plans?
No one knows the future, but I have seen multiple press reports speculating that they may be shutting down entire airports because the security lines are so already so long, and likely to get longer as more TSA people leave the agency. That might also affect his plans.
“Not just an accident. But a DOUBLE TAP missile strike on a GIRLS’S school in a country where 70% of female college graduates go into STEM fields? First they hit the school and most survived. THEN they hit it a second time when the parents (also likely educated STEM or PMC field Iranians) were there to RESCUE their kids? And the Trump Regime blamed it on….what, exactly?”
This illegal war started with a war crime and we have zero credibility on the world stage. Was Joe Kent in the room when this target was discussed in some way? Was Miller in the room? Was this an Israeli target?
The WAPO, NYTimes are as pathetic as the host of T O U S I TV.
I tried to get the zip file of these leaked emails but failed; however, the information about this leak is getting addressed at high speed. I want to know the details, if we can get them?
https://netcrook.com/mossad-email-hack-handala-shine-leak/
There is some reporting that it was actually a *triple*-tap. Not sure where I first saw it, but today I’m finding it on a Substacker’s page & The Daily Mail, & Wikipedia says:
“According to Minab’s mayor and the Iranian Ministry of Education, the school was triple tapped, being struck three times in total.[14] Satellite-base analysis by BBC Verify suggest the school was hit with multiple missiles.” Whether 1, 2, or 3 taps, it’s unforgivable.
https://en.wikipedia[dot]org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
I suspect the No Kings March next Saturday will be massive.
No one knows the future, but I checked https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/ about a week ago and was stunned at how many events there are already planned near me (in DFW). In my area, a lot of them tend to appear just a couple of days before the event. There are already more now than the final count near me for NoKings 2.0. If that grows, I can hope for “massive” with some confidence.
In Minnesota, planning to go to the MN Capitol event.
Whether looks ok, don’t have a sign made will just go without a sign.
A flag will do in a pinch. Dollar stores have them. Buy extras and hand ’em out!
A good, but long, piece on the nitrogen/fertilizer problem:
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-nitrogen-trap
This article is fascinating…and terrifying
Meanwhile, Julie K. Brown has written more about the Epstein files, including about at least 3 bags and a box of shredded documents which occurred during Bill Barr’s tenure.
Inmate, Steven Lopez, and correctional officer, Michael Kearins, are identified in an FBI 302 form. But the case was switched from the FBI to the OIG which has no ability to criminally prosecute.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html
“Bags of shredded documents at NY jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI” – By Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy, 3/21/26 10:07 AM
In lawyer news, as opposed to legal news, I see that Andrew Weissmann has a new book coming out “Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America”. Looking forward to this since this has been a thing with me since 2016 . If we are to be a functional democracy, we cannot tolerate political figures’ deceit. (And Trump is the king of deceit.) If you believe in “garbage-in = garbage-out” concept and how it relates decision making, deceit by elected officials and those who want to get elected is akin to election interference. If voters are only provided with garbage their decisions are bad, stupid, ill conceived, short-sighted, wrong, etc. (see elections of 2016 & 2024) Deceit destroys trust and divides people. Since Weissman is an attorney, I am anxious to see what his legal solution to what I think is foundationally wrecking our country.
Bob Mueller’s death was announced today. He was 81.
The hagiography will predictably get wrong much of what his reports concluded about Donald Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-mueller-dies-age-cause-trump-russia-b2943208.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/robert-mueller-obit-9.7137425
Trump posted in his characteristic warm and empathetic style: “Robert Muller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”.
This of the person he claimed ad nauseam “cleared” him of Russiagate. Inadvertently reveals though (as if anyone doubted) that he well understood what Muller had on him.
DARVO. Trump’s eternal victimhood.
Yeah. The earliest news article I’ve found on Mueller’s death is MS Now at 12:56 PM.
https://www.ms.now/news/former-special-counsel-robert-mueller-has-died
TRUMP vomited his T[sic]S post half an hour later at 1:26 PM.
[Which is the first I heard the news…which was pretty awful]
Here, Ron Filipkowski reacts PERFECTLY to TRUMP:
[Also, he screenshots the T[sic]S post]
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mhlozz53zc2s
2:48 PM · Mar 21, 2026
There are still people who think that he didn’t prove anything, that the Steele dossier was a Dem hoax, and that The Felon Guy and his associates (including his family) have no connection to crimes or to Putin.
EW,
Illegal, immoral, Iran war, Operation Epstein Fury, is soon going to have US soldiers on the ground because this war was started before Trump’s number one objective, SOH be open, had a strategy to achieve number one objective. More US treasure arriving home in a coffins is coming.
War History, Iraq, Iran’s oil rich boarder neighbor.
March 20 2003 US invaded Iraq with a strategy of regime change. Air and ground, multi nation, invasion commenced simultaneously. Objectives and strategy changed and General David Petraeus surged troops on the ground in 2007. Trump and Netanyahu’s nations, unilaterally, illegally, invaded Iran airspace, but not ground or sea, bombing schools and military sites beginning on Feb 28 2026 and continuously through today 3/21/2026 with no end in sight. Trump and Netanyahu Iran war objective nebulous. Strategy undisclosed. Ground and sea invasion of Iran involving US forces only, will commence within 60 days i predict based on Malcom Nance’s, Blackman spy, special operations 1980’s Iranian battle experience surrounding Kargh Island. Simultaneous air, land, and sea invasion will exponentially increase casualty numbers of dead and wounded on all sides.
Famine is coming due to lack of fertilizer for world’s agribusinesses due to closed SOH. Staggering costs rising for world’s economy as petroleum fuels soar in price due to closed SOH. Iran is one of the world’s leading drone producers. US deploys weapons to target and destroy drones for one million dollars each and Iranian drones cost 20k each so there is an economic asymmetry that will only expand as this illegal immoral undeclared war expands.
“Dead by June!”
This Trump ejaculation, referencing the previously private prognosis of a GOP congressman, was delivered with uncharacteristic glee and a teeth-baring grin by our ever-more dour and pouty POTUS. Trump was sitting to the left of a visibly uncomfortable Mike Johnson, with Susie Wiles serving in her usual place as Donald’s righthand aide. Wiles’s own breast cancer diagnosis had just been announced, but she too forced a smile at the boss’s “joke,” merely the latest in the execrable series by this increasingly disinhibited sociopath.
Trump has mused during the past year about whether he will go to heaven. He seems obsessed with death, in frantic denial as his deteriorating corpus betrays his own mortality. The danger now is starkly apparent: of Trump either willing others to their death (like the congressman) or worse *sending* them to possible carnage overseas, with a shrug and a morbid, scary grin.
Some villains have at least a stab at doing something worthwhile as they see their end coming, if only for the sake of the reputation they leave behind them. Not Trump. He just gets worse and worse. Even seems liberated these days at doing wrong to as many people as possible.
I guess he is the proof that Calvinism got it right. Some people are plain born bad and bound straight for hell. {grin}
Trump is definitely not going to Heaven and with his enablers and sidekicks I expect Hell to be leaning Republican.
No way Bill Barr attends Muller’s funeral now that Donny has said he’s glad Muller’s dead. If he did show several thousand people chanting Bill Barr is a pig would be great.
Muller was a good soldier so when his boss shit all over him he stayed quiet, for years. When I found Emptywheel it was during Muller Time and I realized half way in that our institutions would fail and it was a Quixotic quest imagine they would do otherwise. I’m sorry.
Just to be picky, I think “Muller” actually spelled it Mueller.
Thread…MORE Thread…I don’t know, Marcy, are you just stringing us along? :- P
“You have to spin out the ball of thread before you can tell the story,” as Marcy says in this re-upped episode about the Mueller Report that she has on Bluesky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9usLmkiHZc