Sunshine, deep-blue skies this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — due to a chilly breeze, the temps are down a bit.
However, time cometh — we’re forecast for maybe mid-80s by the middle of next week, so the seasons come and go, as this morning came forth this year’s Spring Equinox.
Yeah, quick the calendar measure as we’re now at 59 days since T-Rump took official control and the real-heavy, frightful-weird started to hit the fan, and in a way proving the axiom, ‘flood the zone with shit‘ makes sense if we’re inside a ‘everything, everywhere‘ moment in that zone. And the seeming speed of events in such a short space of time does indeed also prove ‘all at once,’ too. In real time the last near-month has been filled to the exact brim with mind-blowing events beyond the scope of regular, sane people. Hardly anything has been normal — from a dangerous, incompetent dismantling of the federal government and apparently all associated entities, to putting a worldwide war-like ambiance to international affairs to a level of such obvious corruption that it’s ludicrous.
And most of T-Rump’s action has been illegal, which could be — or not — the end of the shit-hitting-fan sequence. Depends if the courts allow it.
So far, the legal side of the nasty coin has stayed the way: ‘In more than a dozen cases — and in three major rulings this week alone — a federal judge has ruled that the administration either has violated the law or has probably done so … The total works out to one such finding about every four days.‘
Another ‘such finding‘ today that’s caused a slight bit of relief — Muskrat’s boys’ attempt to fuck-over the Social Security Administration was given a slap back:
NEW: A federal judge in Maryland Thursday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials from accessing sensitive data and systems at the Social Security Administration (SSA). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T20:45:12.550Z
Via Democracy Docket: ‘“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion,” District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander explained in her order. “It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack.”‘
Nailed the entire T-Rump/Musk show.
And all for terror and cruelty, the consequence:
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T21:08:58.434Z
Are we fucked, or not, yet once again here we are …
(Illustration out front: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here.)