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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]

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Date: 2025-06-04

Thoughts and Prayers

Via Colbert...sometimes a Schoolhouse Rock bill deserves some tough love:

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Someone spread the ashes over one of his hamberders.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Note: Our sincerest apologies for not warning the Daily Kos community in advance that we were changing from jeans to shorts this week. Those of you who suffered retina burn as a result of viewing our blindingly-white bird legs without proper protection can submit a claim to C&J's legal department. (Please allow 5-10 years for processing.) —Mgt.

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By the Numbers:

3 days!!!

Days 'til summer: 16

Days 'til the Empire Asparagus Festival in Michigan: 3

Number of employees quickly being rehired to the National Weather Service because the snot-nosed DOGE idiot children were so clumsy about slashing 560 jobs that the agency could barely function: 125

Rank of Rhode Island, California, and Delaware on SafeHome.org's list of safest states for LGBTQ Americans (Maine ranks #9): #1, #2, #3

Rank of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida: #49, #50, #51

Number of tourists who visit Mount Etna, which erupted Monday, each year: 1.5 million

Amount of weight one human hair can support: 3 ounces

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Mid-week Rapture Index: 180 (including 3 droughts and 1 pleasant thought from Andy Richter). Soul Protection Factor 12 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Amber just needed a little "me" time…

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CHEERS to circling the blue wagons. During these first few months of the King TACO regime, federal judges have said "No!" to his power grabs and illegal schemes 96 percent of the time, making him the Biggest Loser Of All Time. Helping make their decisions easier is an elite team of Democratic state attorneys general filing lawsuits with all their i's dotted and t's crossed. And with nothing less than our freedoms on the line, they're not being shy about going for Trump's dangerously clogged jugular:

Since Trump’s inauguration, Democratic attorneys general have filed 30 lawsuits combined against the administration, focused on issues including immigration and due process, tariffs, federal worker layoffs and the dismantling of federal agencies. California has been a part of 25 of those lawsuits, compared to 21for New Jersey and 20 for Massachusetts. […] King TACO is scared of Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell. “One thing I think we demonstrated in the first 100 days of this administration—and continue to—is that we are organized, we are strategic, and we’re unafraid to take on what’s coming, whether that be unlawful executive orders or standing up in court to defend our states’ interests, residents, economies and institutions,” [Massachusetts AG Andrea] Campbell said. “This isn’t about policy or political differences,” [New Jersey AG Matthew] Platkin noted. “That’s not the basis of a lawsuit.” Rather, he said, “We will look at whether the president’s violating the law and hurting the residents of our state.”

Thankfully, judges are looking at their grievances and responding, "Yup" and "Yup."

CHEERS to getting your face eaten by your own leopard. Speaking of justice, here's a fun fact: during his first go-round, King TACO nominated a whole bunch of judges to federal benches who he counted on to do his bidding AT…ALL…TIMES!!! And while some of them have turned out to be real flaming piles of judicial doo-doo, others have shown an actual streak of independence:

A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't promised adequate due process. A gavel. The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Holcomb—who was nominated by President Trump in 2019—is the latest to limit the administration's controversial practice of rapidly deporting people accused of being members of the gang Tren de Araguaunder the 1798 law, which allows removals during an "invasion" or "predatory incursion" of the United States. Courts in three other states have also blocked Alien Enemies Act removals, though under different arguments. Holcomb's preliminary injunction applies to most migrants who are in custody in the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, Orange County and several bordering areas.

After the ruling, White House reporters say they noticed fresh ketchup stains on the walls. No word yet on whether they were Trump's or Stephen Miller's.

CHEERS (I guess) to today's edition of Even A Stopped Racist Clock Addicted To Adderall, Ketamine and Ecstasy Is Right Once In A Lifetime. Courtesy of NBC News:

Elon Musk issued a blistering criticism of the massive Republican bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday, posting on X that it is a "disgusting abomination."

This has been today's edition of Even A Stopped Racist Clock Addicted To Adderall, Ketamine and Ecstasy Is Right Once In A Lifetime.

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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CHEERS to time savers. 114 years today, the newly-invented washer/dryer combo went on sale for the first time. It was promptly followed a few hours later by another milestone: the first teenagers to totally ignore it.

JEERS to wakin' and bakin'. If you would all grab your wall calendars, please, and turn to page June? Now examine the month and tell me what you see coming up in 16 days. [Pause.] [Long sigh.] Yes, yes, it is indeed Take Your Dog to Work Day, thank you. But I'm talking about summer —June 20th is the start of summer! Picnics and pool parties and lazy days at the beach...and also, according to the scientists, the aroma of freshly-baked human flesh:

The latest summer season outlook by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows hotter-than-average temperatures are predicted across much of the country this summer, with the greatest likelihood of extreme heat hitting swaths of the East Coast, southern Plains and West. Ugh. The outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center forecasts whether the seasonal average temperature for a particular area will end up above, below or near average during the three-month period of the meteorological summer. […] While it is unlikely that summer 2025 will surpass last year's record, this forecast shows that scorching temperatures could be on the way for much of the U.S. this season.

When asked if he was prepared to deal with weather emergencies during the summer, new FEMA director David Richardson said: "Summer? What’s summer? I'm not aware of summer."

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Ten years ago in C&J: June 4, 2015

JEERS to today's not-so-boring correction. Last Thursday night at 9:07 pm ET, the Associated Press published their “Ten Things to Know for Friday.” At the top of the list was this:

1. EX-HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT ACCUSED OF PAYING HUSH MONEY

A federal indictment alleges that the 73-year-old Illinois Democrat paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars, seeking to conceal unspecified misconduct.

Dennis Hastert, who we now know was paying $3.5 million to a male student to cover up some kind of alleged predatory sexual perversion, is a Republican . A nasty, vindictive, greedy, lying, hypocritical Republican jackass who's now in a heap of trouble. We're sure the venerable AP regrets the error despite not actually fixing the error in four days and eleven hours. Not that we're counting. And nine minutes. And 43 seconds.

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And just one more…

CHEERS to The Preeecious. Forty-eight years ago, on June 4, 1977, the first personal computer—Apple II—went on sale. I'm guessing that, in today's dollars, it would probably cost around $8,000. Their original print ad seems Model T’ish today. (Especially the part where they boast that “thousands” of people have discovered it, including “hobbyists.”) And check out this TV ad:

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Today our computers are so advanced that ignorant conservatives can receive Republican and Russian propaganda on their touch screens from websites that scramble their brains and convince them to actively work to knock the legs out from under our democratic system of government. But that’s nothing compared to the bar graphs you can make to get your ideas noticed in the workplace. (Ha ha—take that, Gary in accounting with your silly protractor.)

Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?

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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Pools are one of the best ways to get relief from the summer heat. But no one wants to take a dip in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool. —USA Today

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