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Lucian K. Truscott IV's avatar

Governor Newsom. I added an "e" for some unknown reason...probably fatigue.

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Christina Johnson's avatar

Umm…as if a single one of us has not had a spelling slip. Or worse: the dreaded autocorrect!

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Tim Prentiss's avatar

We saw a Newsom 2028 banner in Michigan that was a perfect parody of Trump banners flown elsewhere in the state. The trolling continues beyond social media and into the real world...

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I'm sure Governor Newsom would forgive you. It's not as though spelling mistakes have never been made before.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Ridiculous how this fucking dictator attempts to quell non-existent rebellions when he himself fomented the J6 insurrection. And pardoned the violent assholes who perpetrated it and assaulted, injured, and caused the death of law enforcement officers.

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Janice D Stearns's avatar

And now they want COMPENSATION??? WTF???

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daien | nyc's avatar

Aren't they all ICE agents now? Seriously.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

So now that Judge Breyer has rendered a decision in Newsom’s lawsuit, shall we count how long it will take for The Convict’s many attorneys to cry foul and run to their SCOTUS daddies and mommy?

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Dirk  Faegre's avatar

Trump has been a loser most of his adult life. (Note: 6 casino bankruptcies, failed airline, failed ‘university’, failed travel agency, failed mortgage company, failed steaks and vodka, failed Trump-The Game, failed citizen [convicted 34 felonies],the list is long and lurid.

So now he looses most of his court cases — why be surprised … it’s his MO.

And you can bet he’ll keep failing.

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Janice D Stearns's avatar

I'm worried about the taxpayers having to bail him out when his Crypto Bubble bursts and it will. I believe he will call up the full faith and credit of the US and will set up a new kind of FDIC and we will be left holding the bag! He's made 5 Bil in Crypto so far!

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

NO!!!

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Phil's avatar

Correction, he has been a fucking loser all of his life.

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Dirk  Faegre's avatar

I hear your anger and fully understand it. But I take the position we should remain honest.

As a young child I expect he was rather normal. But as he got older his dad, Fred, and Roy Cohn made sure he understood that he was to never, ever admit to being wrong. They literally beat it into him with a belt. He got the message. Too well.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Correction: Donnie Dementia has been a loser ALL his life. And he knows it, too.

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Doris Corea's avatar

Take this guy down is my mantra!

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Terry's avatar

6 feet down - by the hand of god...

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skip's avatar

"Breyer wielded his axe..."

With respect for your ire, Lucian, which I share, exactly how axe-like is a "serious scolding" (David A. Graham in The Atlantic) if there are no consequences? What, exactly, is Judge Breyer going to enact as punishment for the Trump administration's violating the law?

I've read nothing about that, and as I see it that's the only thing that'll change what's happening short of a blue tsunami in 2026 (and we'd still have to wait till then while damage is being done).

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Exactly. There's no adverse consequence, nothing but words on paper. Until these judges put some people in jail, even if only until they make bail, nothing is going to change.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

The plaintiffs were only asking for an injunction, I think. And plaintiffs have no power to prosecute criminal violations. That's up to the DOJ; this will be known to history as the Fat Chance DOJ.

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skip's avatar

Thanks. Some clarity on this, which perhaps I could have understood but missed. And, yes, fat chance.=

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jfuhr's avatar

DOJ IS CLEARLY A DODGE!!

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Andrea L Lacey's avatar

"Assembled slobberers" -- your best phrase yet Lucian!

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AMCottingham's avatar

Thanks for your reliably lucid explanations.

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Donald Nathan's avatar

He's been violating it over and over and over. Plain and simple.

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Donald Nathan's avatar

Worse yet for my fellow Chicagoans - he wants to do it here! There's no reason on God's green earth why we need troops marching around the "Loop" and The Bean. We have an outstanding police force to enforce the law here. The "hellhole" is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia.

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Donald Nathan's avatar

It's just like it was in '68 - THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.

It'll be a miracle if some stupid 19 year old National Guard person doesn't "accidentally" pop off a dozen rounds here and kills four more in Illinois.

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

Well, I didn't have a tv in those days, but I sure heard "THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING" on KSAN in the summer of 1968. This is off topic, but it seems to me that t really isn't interested in that peace prize, what with bombing that Venezuelan boat after bombing Iran. Disqualified!

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Susan Burgess's avatar

He’s actually going for the piece OF prize.

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Ellen Franzen's avatar

Oh, I didn't realize that...

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Donald Nathan's avatar

If the Commander-In-Chief wants to send troops to my town, let them deploy in the Engelwood or Oakenwald or Pilsen or North Lawndale or Austin neighborhoods where they'll probably end up suffering battle losses from stray bullets. Maybe the schmuck will be happy to start a war here. He was sure too scared to do it in August, 1964 the same week when I volunteered for the draft.

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Donald Nathan's avatar

There are 77 neighborhoods with names in Chicago. I'll betcha armed troops will end up being deployed only in neighborhoods like the Gold Coast where Governor Pritzker lives, by Lakeview along Lake Shore Drive where I grew up and in Streeterville by the Drake Hotel and Navy Pier where the violent crime rate is negligible.

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Janice D Stearns's avatar

That seems to be what he is doing in DC. Who needs NG in Georgetown or on the Mall or the Washington Monument, for gods sake!

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Joseph Smith's avatar

I think T-rump is hoping someone will shoot a couple of guardsmen and give him the opportunity to clamp down on the whole country. Martial law for all.

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michellefromchicago's avatar

Amen. We are Chicago, and we’re not having it!!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Again, until these judges put people in jail, it's all hot air. He could've ordered Hegseth at the least be taken into custody immediately.

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Tom Twain's avatar

None of these decisions will stop Trump, he has every confidence, so far justified, that "my judges" on the S.Ct. will bail him out and agree that he can do "whatever I want." If he does send federal troops into Chicago, and I'm still convinced that's a big IF, he's going to find far more opposition from a unified city than he may expect. He's talked big about coming to Chicago before but always backed down once he realizes how hated he and his policies are there.

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Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

Yes, he talks big and lies about EVERYTHING! The Great Lakes Naval Station has been chosen as their base of operations. This is located 1-2 hours outside of the city of Chicago, depending on traffic. They have no idea what they are getting themselves into. The Chicago area is HEAVILY and DENSELY populated. I know he doesn’t give a sh-t about the wellbeing of the National Guard but it is going to be a special kind of hell for them to work their way in and around the Chicago area. We’re all just pawns in his cosplay of “¿Quién es más macho?”

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Tom Twain's avatar

Now Taco Don is changing his mind and saying "maybe" he'll send his troops into NOLA, where the governor appreciates him. Chicago no longer deserves saving.

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Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

Ha!

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jfuhr's avatar

We have to follow México's lead and get rid of SCOTUS!!!

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Linda Weide's avatar

While you are painting Democratic cities with a broad brush, there is a piece that is included in the cities he is naming with the exception of San Francisco, all of these cities have Black mayors, and Trump is treating our cities like we are uppity you know what's. He wants to put us in our place like they keep the Blacks in Mississippi and Louisiana where crime is higher than in our cities, because that is part of his performance for himself as a White Supremacist and for the White Power Community, and the Racist White Christian Nationalist Communities. So there we have it. White Supremacy taking us back to the 1960s and 1970s, except for Governors who are mostly White allies to the Black and Brown people of their states. With Baltimore Trump gets a 2-fer a Black Governor and a Black Mayor. He must be really eager to go and show his White Power forces even though many people in them are Black and Brown.

I am in Chicago. My passport is in my backpack, which is what I mostly use to get myself to and from places outside of my home, my home that I am here packing up and sifting through a lifetime of things to put on the market and shipping things abroad where I mostly reside at this point.

I have relatives who are career US military who are stationed in Germany with German wives and children whom Trump is probably going to want to turn against Germany at some point if he keeps on down the path he is on with other bad guy leaders who rob their populations blind. What will they choose?

I have brown skin and am acutely aware that many people in the US hear me speaking German and being monolingual themselves think I must be speaking Spanish because of my skin color. In fact they will ask if I am speaking Spanish and because I know they know it does not sound Spanish I should say yes just because they phrase it that way in their limited monolingual ways. In Germany people do not assume that I am speaking Spanish, but that I am German, as I am German too.

I am hoping that Judge Breyer tells Trump he cannot come here. Yesterday Mayor Brandon Johnson was part of a demonstration against the coming of federal troops. He and governor Pritzker have been crystal clear that while they would welcome real help from Trump, which he never offers, they do not want what Trump is forcing on us. We do not want it either. Here they are speaking in a news conference today along with our AG, Cook County Board President and Lieutenant Governor.

https://youtu.be/WzLEHl_5EDg?si=SkO819-8WdVjj6YJ

We shall see what happens, and if it happens.

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Christina Johnson's avatar

Indeed. The thing all of these cities have in common is a mayor of color. How transparent is it that this appeal is to White Christian gun toting red state residents? As Governor Pritzker said: the gun suppliers!

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James Vander Poel's avatar

His henchman, Tom Homan, has a thing for Mayor Wu of Boston. I'm wondering when he reaches her name on that list. I don't think she and Governor Healey will put up with a takeover of the Massachusetts National Guard.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Yes Christina. As Pritzker, Johnson pointed out and Raoul, that other Red states have worse crime, and that they supply us with guns.

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Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

Oh! You’re leaving! I totally understand as you’ve spoken many times about your life in Germany. Best wishes to you and your family, Linda. I appreciate all of your posts.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Thank you Gail. I am leaving because I now live more of the time in Germany, but we are having a small apartment to stay in when we come back because we have friends and family here. I just told my two brown skinned nephews to not go out without their US passports on them while Trump's Troops are here. They are my heart especially since we lost their mother last summer. Their sister is away at university in a small Illinois college town that I don't believe will be visited by Trump's Troops. Let us hope not. My husband is about to retire and Germany is much more affordable to live in as a retired couple. It is also has a lower crime rate.

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Bruce Kopetz's avatar

Liebe Frau Weide, why was I never able to become articulate in Deutsch? 1) Four years of German in high school 1965-69, with the highest marks. Then two Deutsche Literatur courses in college. Today, I struggle to understand Der Spiegel. When I hear German spoken, only a few words stir my memory, and the meaning of the speaker always eludes me. My inability to become a German speaker has tortured me my entire life. I've never traveled to Europa. My long-departed instructor from Ravensburg, Frau Margot Tietz, would be so ashamed of her prize pupil. Now I'll view your embedded news conference with Illinois officials. Thank you for including it. Besten Wünsche!

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Linda Weide's avatar

Lieber Bruce, travel in or moving to Germany will help with the fluency. You have to be speaking with German speakers. Avoid those Germans who would use you to practice their English. Avoid Berlin where lots of non-Germans live who speak English not German. This does not happen to me much because most of the Germans I know do not speak English that well. They live in Bremen and Bremen is not a city with a lot of Americans (about 1000 to our knowledge) and a lot of people there do not know English. I have run into a Canadian and some Brits in the Irish bar I go to for weekly English language quiz bowl. Super fun. The big winners are not native English speakers but they know a lot of stuff and their English is excellent.

Liebe Grüße!

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Lawrence Dietz's avatar

As always, Truscott/nail/head. The (snarky) editor in me wonders about one word. You described DT47's Cabinet and assorted facscrotums as "slobberers." Wouldn't "fellators" and "fellatrices" be more accurate? Their combined performance could help explain how, in a moment of always-too-short-lived (how soon can I get it again?) ecstacy, he blurted out his gospel truth: he can do anything he wants.

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Barbara (NJ)'s avatar

Another page I follow called them Butt Snorkelers--now there's a visual

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Lawrence Dietz's avatar

Yikes. To modify what Helen Keller (I met her when I was seven!) said: "Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see Butt Snorkelers at work [nothing]."

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daien | nyc's avatar

Actually, if you live in a city in any blue state, not just California, you can breathe a little easier, per nyt civil rights legal eagle Charlie Savage:

'L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities

'As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections.' https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/trump-military-cities.html

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Charles Austin's avatar

The problem is that these shitweasels think they're above the law. Unless somebody in the administration (Hegseth, Miller) gets apprehended by US Marshalls, they'll do what they want to do.

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Don Quixote's Reckless Son's avatar

The bigger problem is that the shitweasels on the Supreme Court seem to think Trump et al is above the law, too.

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daien | nyc's avatar

And that won't be the end of it either.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

Outstanding overview of Judge Breyer's ruling with a number of juicy excerpts.

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Richard's avatar

I agree with you 100%! My wife and I live in Michigan(blue state). I keep thinking he’s going to send troops to Detroit, MI.

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James Vander Poel's avatar

Blue state? Michigan? Did not the Michigan electors in 2024 go to the Orange Menace? And in 2016? I'm a native Michigander, as is my spouse, and we have no illusions about the political makeup of the Michigan citizenry. They might have elected a Democratic governor, and barely voted for Biden in 2020, but the best you could say is that Michigan is a purple state. Going twice for the felon is a crime that is hard to forgive. I'll have it in mind when I make the trip to my 60th high school reunion next month: no quarter asked or given.

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Helen Stajninger's avatar

I live in Michigan and worry abut Detroit. We are no longer a blue state though. We went twice for Obama, and once for Biden , in the most recent years, but have become dominated by MAGA’s now.

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Richard's avatar

I agree with you. With next years mid-term election. We’re going to have a new Governor, State AG, Secretary of State and US Senator. I’m hoping Michigan does not become a red state.

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