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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-25
Energize An Ally Tuesday
Big election coming up one week from today in Wisconsin! Yes, Wisconsin. Where the Republicans were Trump long before Trump was Trump, cheating, bullying and gerrymandering their way to within a whisker of permanent control of the state. The elections of Democratic governor Tony Evers and state Supreme Court justice Janet Protasiewicz a couple years back rescued the badger state just in time. But now there's a new MAGA threat that needs to be dispatched next Tuesday, and boy howdy did our side brand him excellently. Listen to this whimpering weakling:
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Running against Elon Musk’s bank account is Judge Susan Crawford:
“I’m running for Supreme Court justice to protect the basic rights and freedoms of Wisconsinites under our constitution. Those rights are threatened by an all-out effort to politicize the court to drive a right-wing agenda—I believe Wisconsin deserves better. Unlike her MAGA opponent, Judge Crawford can form a smile without having to use a crowbar and super glue. As a former prosecutor and a judge, I know we need Supreme Court justices who understand what it takes to keep communities safe, who are impartial and fair, who will use common sense, and who won’t politicize the constitution to undermine our most basic rights. I also believe people in Wisconsin deserve to feel safe as they go about their lives—in their homes, driving down the road, or walking to the grocery store. My top priority in making decisions is always to make our communities safer. For the first time in years, we have a majority on the court focused on getting the facts right, following the law, and protecting our constitutional rights. We can’t risk having that progress reversed.”
Mighty Wisconsin Dems chair Ben Wikler is keeping America up to date on the campaign and the latest developments. You can follow his Daily Kos feed here and follow him on Blue Sky here. To help get Judge Crawford over the finish line next week instead of the Musk stooge, you can visit her web site here. Any help you send is hugely appreciated.
Once this is over, and Judge Crawford becomes Justice Crawford, we expect the state Supreme Court will move swiftly on to a matter of critical importance: affirming the constitutional right of every American to free Wisconsin cheese. (It must be in that damn document somewhere.)
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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By the Numbers:
3 days!!!
Days 'til Palm Sunday: 19
Days 'til the start of Jersey Shore Restaurant Week: 3
J.D. Vance's favorability among Real Clear Politics aggregate of polls, the lowest of any vice president two months into their first term: 41%
Number of West Virginia's 1.8 million residents who are on Medicaid: 516,000
Coal miners in West Virginia in 1940 (it's peak), and today: 130,000 / <12,000
Days that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has lasted: 1,126
Age of boxing legend (and grilling aficionado) George Foreman when he died Friday: 76
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Puppy Pic of the Day: A few pics from National Puppy Day (last Sunday)…
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CHEERS to opening up a can of whupoassberg. As mighty law firms, major universities, and powerful corporations respond to Trump's threats by collapsing under the weight of their own cowardice, federal judges are having none of his nonsense. That's especially true of a scrappy lawyer tamer who isn’t about to capitulate this nonsense:
The Venezuelan migrants removed by the Trump administration to El Salvador last week deserved to have a court hearing before their deportations to determine whether they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, a federal judge ruled Monday morning. Not to be trifled with. In a ruling denying the Trump Administration's request to dissolve his order blocking the deportations, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote that Trump's "unprecedented use" of the Alien Enemies Act does not remove the government's responsibility to ensure the men removed could contest their designation as alleged gang members. Trump last week invoked the Alien Enemies Act—a wartime authority used to deport noncitizens with little-to-no due process—by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a "hybrid criminal state" that is invading the U.S. […] Last week, Boasberg temporarily blocked the president's use of the law to deport more than 200 alleged gang members with no due process, calling the removals "awfully frightening" and "incredibly troublesome."
Coincidentally, "awfully frightening and incredible troublesome" is also what goes through the White House hospitality staff's mind when Melania staggers up the steps with a pile of gin-soaked cocktail napkins containing her ideas for this year's Christmas decorations.
JEERS to the looooong wait. Don’t you dare say “Happy” Equal Pay Day or you’ll get a frying pan to the face and rightly so. Yes, today is Equal Pay Day, symbolizing how women have to work roughly 15 months to earn what men earned during the twelve months of 2024. Many employers say they’re aware of the issue, and have promised they’re working on it. But many aren't, and for that you can look to the Republican party to see why. For your entertainment, we present our annual single reference to the late Phyllis Schlafly, who once donned her finest antebellum hoop skirt and belched:
"Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate. … The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap."
She’s dead and buried now. Sadly, someone forgot to toss the GOP in with her.
CHEERS to walkin' the walk. On March 25, 1965—a few weeks after "Bloody Sunday" during which police set upon peaceful civil rights marchers with fire hoses, clubs and dogs—Martin Luther King, Jr. led thousands of marchers to the State Capitol in Montgomery for a rally. It looked something like this (that's late Congressman John Lewis second from the left):
The marchers got three things out of it: Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a permanent place in civil rights history and, much less publicized, aching arches.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to the dark ages of labor exploitation. Today is the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire that, in 18 minutes, killed 146 garment workers in New York City. The workers in that shithole had gone on strike a couple years earlier for better pay and safety improvements, but management decided that, no, we'd rather be dicks. And as so often happens, it took a catastrophe to finally wake people up. In her centennial anniversary column, Laura Clawson wrote:
We don't…have fire alarms and sprinklers and adequate exits and other workplace protections because big employers want us to have them. Great job there, management. Just great. We don't have them solely because of tragedy. We have them because workers have joined together and fought for them. In 1911, workers' struggle was the context that made the Triangle fire something other than a meaningless accident, that showed a way to prevent similar tragedies. […] "Government regulations" and "workplace safety laws" sound like dry terms, but this is what they're about: nothing less than people's lives. And that is something to remember when you hear the likes of [Wisconsin governor] Scott Walker and [Ohio governor] John Kasich arguing that employers oughtn't be bound by those pesky government regulations.
See also: Trump administration dumpster fire, 2017-2021 and 2025-???.
CHEERS to brevity. Over the weekend the president of the United States opened his anatomically-misplaced anal cavity, packed it with Adderall, and demanded an apology from the state of Maine:
In a post shared on social media Saturday morning, President Donald Trump asked for Maine Gov. Janet Mills to apologize over a dispute between the two regarding an executive order to ban transgender athletes from playing in girls' and women's sports. […] The post also made several unsubstantiated claims about the state's response to the Trump administration over the executive order and the verbal exchange between Mills and Trump one month ago.
Those of us in Maine with functioning brains wish to respond en masse as follows: Request denied. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.
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Ten years ago in C&J: March 25, 2015
JEERS to the shrieking of the paranoids. Last week Hillary Clinton said she wants adults to go to camps to overcome our deficit of fun in this country. The hard-right crazies had a cow, although for different reasons. The conspiracy theorists freaked out because she was promoting "camps" and the evangelical puritans freaked out because she was promoting "fun."
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And just one more…
CHEERS to good spellin'. Over the weekend 7th-grader Esme Filippo of Orland won the Maine State Spelling Bee—in the 22nd round:
More than a dozen students battled it out in the competition at Bowdoin College to compete for the title. After 22 rounds and 119 words, the winning word was "domesticity." Filippo will be Maine's representative at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition in Washington, D.C. This guy = not the winner of any spelling bee ever. "Now I get to go to D.C., and I love cities. I'm really excited. One of my classmates said if I made it to nationals, she would go watch," Filippo said. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the national competition.
Evan will now start cramming for the National event that'll take place in late May. And for those of you wondering, the definition of "domesticity" is the sticity of domes. Don’t ask me for more than that, because I am not an architect.
And cheers to Gloria Steinem—today's her 91st birthday but we'll just call it the 52nd anniversary of her 39th. Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "It's been pretty wonderful in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I'm very grateful." —Rosie O'Donnell
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