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Thursday GNR: Contempt Time [1]

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Date: 2025-04-17

There are two, count them, 2, Judges threatening Trump officials with criminal contempt, on deportations without due process and refusal to obey court orders to return one or even all of them to the US—Federal Judges Boasberg and Xinis.

AP: Judge [Boasberg] finds cause to hold Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating deportation order

NBC News: Judge in Abrego Garcia case indicates she's weighing contempt proceedings against Trump administration U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the administration has done "nothing" to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, even though court orders have required action by officials. Boasberg:

A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison. The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities. Boasberg accused administration officials of rushing deportees out of the country under the Alien Enemies Act last month before they could challenge their removal in court, and then willfully disregarding his order that planes already in the air should return to the United States. The judge said he could hold hearings and potentially refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not act to remedy the violation. If Trump’s Justice Department leadership declines to prosecute the matter, Boasberg said he will appoint another attorney to do so.

NBCNews: New documents detail government's case that mistakenly deported man was a gang member

The documents were released after weeks of pressure on the Trump administration to prove its contention that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.

Before we get to the regular Gnusie Gnuz, I need to let you all know that we have a Bluesky Starter Pack for many of the GNR Authors, but not all of us, since some have no Bluesky account. I will have more to say about it on Saturday, in my regular Tuxville post.

Regular Good News

Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them

See Rachel Maddow, above, AlterNet, and all other legitimate news sources.

AlterNet: 'Lock them up': Senator [John Hickenlooper (D-CO)] calls on Supreme Court to enforce Trump order with jail sentence [for contempt]

Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness (Legitimate or Stupid)!

x There's a press release out now for a galaxy discovered in JWST data described as the "oldest known spiral galaxy" noirlab.edu/public/news/... ..which is funny, because from a different (perhaps more correct) perspective, it's the youngest! 1/🧵



[image or embed] — Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM

x OTD in hx... not a lot interesting on camera traps but was in CA in '18 where I got one my favorite photos of my son being a nature photographer! His shot included too. 🐌 #kidphotographers #bananaslug #backyardwildlife



[image or embed] — Chris Whittier (@chriswhittier.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM

x “An experiment to create the fermented soybean paste simultaneously here on Earth and aboard the International Space Station found that the space miso tasted intriguingly nuttier and more roasted than miso produced at the same time in the US and Denmark.” www.sciencealert.com/fermenting-m...

🧪 🧠



[image or embed] — Sensory Ecology Lab (@sensoryecology.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM

x Love to see a university leaning hard on the expertise of their own faculty in such a pivotal moment.

More of this please.

#AcademicSky 🧪



[image or embed] — Jehannine (J9) Austin (@j9austin.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM

x Weird how in this administration’s zeal for targeting gangs the Russian mob never comes up. — Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM

x Proposed NIH budget cuts of 40% and reduction of the number of institutes from 27 to 8. The ongoing damage to the American scientific and medical infrastructure is a tragedy. People and patients will lose their lives. 🧪

www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...



[image or embed] — William C Phelps, PhD (@wcphelps.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Mother Jones: RFK Jr. Is Using a New Study on Autism Rates to Push His Anti-Vaccine Agenda

Because of course he still believes that one weird paper, long since falsified and retracted, over all legitimate science.

Funny or Fuggedaboudit

x Poll respondents agreed that a maximum security prison in El Salvador is an appropriate place to house a felon convicted on 34 counts.



[image or embed] — The Borowitz Report (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM

P. D. Q. Bach and More

P.D.Q. Bach - The Musical Sacrifice

Parody of The Musical Offering, by J. S. Bach.

P.D.Q. Bach Fan Channel on YouTube

List of compositions by P. D. Q. Bach

Pumas in the Cravisses

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