Announcing Tabby Friday

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Announcing Tabby Friday

Steven L. Taylor

March 28, 2025

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Via MMFA: Fox’s Brian Kilmeade: “It’s not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people”.
David French in the NYT: Trump Is Doing Real Damage to America.
Via The Guardian: ‘Dagger through the heart’: outcry as Ice detains University of Alabama student.
Via the NYT: For Tina Louise, Escape, Finally, From ‘Gilligan’s Island’.
Via The Guardian: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada.
Via Reuters: Exclusive: DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show. Not Big Balls! Say it ain’t so! And I had so much confidence in DOGE!
Via AL.com: As Republicans face voters angry over DOGE cuts, Alabama’s GOP lawmakers go silent on town halls.
Via the UnPopulist: Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law.
Via Axios: Trump pulls Elise Stefanik’s nomination after last-minute panic.
Via WaPo: How Kristi Noem’s $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flashpoint. Gotta admit: I do not understand watches that cost as much as cars. But I especially do not understand wearing something like that in this context.

8 responses to “Announcing Tabby Friday”

Mister Bluster

March 28, 2025 at 6:59 am

FEED ME!
Jen

March 28, 2025 at 7:27 am

Re: the Axios piece, if a Democrat wins a special election in a +30 Trump district, that’s…certainly a sign.

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Jay L Gischer

March 28, 2025 at 1:15 pm

Dear Brian Kilmeade,

You know what else is not practical? Kidnapping every single one of those 8 million and putting them on a plane to El Salvador, while not making any mistakes. You will be rounding up US citizens while you are at it. You will be rounding up mothers and fathers. You will be rounding up people who were key employees. You will be rounding up people who were caregivers to elderly.

It’s not as though what you are doing is practical. I think you already know how Unamerican it is, though, so I won’t bother to reiterate.

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a country lawyer

March 28, 2025 at 2:16 pm

I have a Rolex, a GMT master that I have worn for more than 50 years. I bought in Hong Kong in the summer of 1968, while on R&R from Viet Nam. It cost me $155. I could have bought the solid gold presidential at that time for $300, gold was $35 an oz. For those pilots who were able to get R&R in Hong Kong, buying a Rolex and a Nikon F camera was the thing.
A few years later while in law school I managed to break the crystal allowing moisture to get in and I had to send it to Switzerland for a factory rehab and it cost me almost exactly what I originally paid. About two years ago it was finally time to send it back to the factory for a complete overhaul and it cost slightly over $2,000. I thought long and hard about just putting it in the drawer and forgetting about the rebuilt but when I checked the resale value and saw it was over $13,000 I went ahead and had it done. As a time piece it gains about 3 minutes every two months and I have to reset the date after every 30 day month. The $29 analog Timex I bought at Walmart to wear while the Rolex was in Switzerland is in my drawer and after 2 years has never been reset and is still accurate to the minute.

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Kathy

March 28, 2025 at 4:07 pm

@Jay L Gischer:

The MAGAts may not care, as long as only people of color get mistreated this way.

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Jay L Gischer

March 28, 2025 at 5:18 pm

Someone at Tufts got kidnapped, too.

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Kathy

March 28, 2025 at 6:44 pm

@a country lawyer:

I used to like Casio LCD multifunction watches. I had several with the infamous calculator, one with a simple game which I don’t even remember.

Around 20 or so years ago, I stopped wearing a watch, because these days there are too many other ways to tell the time: on the PC, the phone, the car, the microwave, the TV, the cable box. About the only time I was unable to tell the time, was on a flight back when phones had to be OFF, not even on airplane mode. It must have been 2006 or so.
de stijl

March 30, 2025 at 12:19 am

Nice little nod to Kevin Drum.