Maybe It's Just a Jewish thing

But when fascists demand a list of all the Jews in an educational institution, it makes me uneasy.

I know that this could just be dismissed as just another attempt by the anti-Semite in the White House to use antisemitism as a political cudgel against his opponents, but they said exactly the same thing about that unpleasant little man with the funny mustache.

The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.

The government’s investigation had united Penn leaders with Jewish students and faculty members as they opposed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s subpoena. Many on campus drew parallels between the government’s approach and methods deployed in Nazi Germany.

But the Trump administration has said that its request was typical for discrimination investigations to seek potential victims and witnesses, and Judge Gerald J. Pappert of Philadelphia’s Federal District Court agreed on Tuesday. He gave Penn until May 1 to comply with the administration’s subpoena, though the ruling appeared unlikely to quell the debates around how the administration has pressured top American universities. 

So, they are remaking the movie, only they have recast Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich with Stephen Miller. 

Lovely. 

It's Thursday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And we are still in the low hire low fire economy.

Initial claims fell tp 202,000 and continuing claims rose to 1.84 million.

I have no clue as to what it all means.

Applications for US unemployment benefits fell last week to one of the lowest levels in the last two years, suggesting layoffs remain low.

Initial claims decreased by 9,000 to 202,000 in the week ended March 28, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 212,000.

Continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people receiving benefits, rose to 1.84 million in the previous week.

Thursday’s figures, alongside other recent data, illustrate a labor market that is still stuck in a “low-hire, low-fire” phase. Initial claims have hovered at relatively low levels in recent weeks, suggesting employers are holding onto current workers even as hiring has slowed.

Separate data released earlier this week showed hiring in February slowed to the weakest pace in nearly six years. Data earlier Thursday from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. showed in the first quarter of 2026, US employers announced 217,362 job cuts, the lowest total for this period since 2022.

The End of the Beginning?

Trump just fired Pam Bondi.

I think that this is more significant than Noem's firing for a number of reasons:

• It's the second firing from the Trump administration in a fairly short time.
• The Senate is likely to be a bit less likely to rubber stamp Trump's next nominee for Attorney General.
• Her exit is likely to slow down attempts to use the DoJ for Trump's desired vengeance.

I have no doubt that Trump will attempt to replace here with something even more bizarrely inexplicable 

Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department but still failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies and frustrated with the politically explosive release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: “Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”

The president added that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, would serve as acting attorney general. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency, is said to be a top contender to replace Bondi.

Yeah, Zeldin would qualify as something even more bizarrely inexplicable

………

During her 14 months as attorney general, Bondi presided over a major purging of career justice department staff, shifted focus away from criminal prosecutions toward immigration cases, and spearheaded the defense of Trump’s towering stack of executive orders as they faced legal challenges.

But she will be perhaps best remembered for complying with Trump’s public demand last year that federal prosecutors bring criminal charges against his personal enemies. Within three weeks, federal prosecutors had indicted James Comey, a former FBI director, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

Maybe someone should refer her to the state bar. 

 

Well, This Was Not on My F%$#ing Bingo Card

Byron Noem, husband, and cuck, of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, has been exposed as a cross dressing "Bimboification" fetishist.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. 

I'm just a surprised, even though I have said time and time again that every one of their accusations is a confession.

In the spectrum of creepy GOP sleaze, this one is up there with the Jerry Falwell ally who  died in bizarre auto-asphyxia accident involving a closet, wet suits (plural),  and a dildo in his anus. 

Clearly, fiction writers are going to have a problem writing something weirder than this. 

Kristi Noem's husband is today revealed as a secret cross-dresser who dons gigantic fake breasts and pink hotpants to chat with online fetish models.

While his wife has operated at the highest echelons of government, handling matters of national security in her recent role as secretary of homeland security, Bryon Noem, 56, has been dressing up and paying adult entertainers to talk dirty.

The Daily Mail has reviewed hundreds of messages involving three women from the 'bimbofication' scene – where porn performers transform themselves into real-life Barbie dolls by pumping colossal amounts of saline into their breasts.

Bryon has lavished praise on their surgically enhanced bodies, confessed his lust for 'huge, huge ridiculous boobs,' and even made indiscreet remarks about his 34-year marriage to Kristi, our investigation can exclusively disclose.

National Security experts consulted by the Daily Mail said his brazen behavior could have left the 54-year-old MAGA favorite, who oversaw ICE's aggressive crackdown until she was removed from her position on March 5, vulnerable to blackmail.

If you are worried about vulnarability to blackmail, perhaps Kristi Noem's affair with Cory Lewandoski, or her bragging about shooting a puppy.

Those are kind of red flags to a lot of security folks. 

As an FYI, there are some pictures at The Mail, but I am not sharing them here.

Also, this is not an April Fools joke.