Washington Post on Trump defying court orders

There is no incentive for Trump to obey court orders. He knows that the Supreme Court almost always gives him what he wants. There is no enforcement mechanism for court orders when the Justice Department works for Trump instead of the country.

Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him

This is a remarkable dispatch — an accessible and compressive round-up of how what’s been happening in court has transformed our system of government in ways that make it less stable, less efficacious, less representative, and less free — not just under Trump, but going forward.

Noah Rosenblum (@narosenblum.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T13:49:31.815Z

Flaco Jimenez RIP

I am not familiar with Jimenez’s recordings but he did a great job on records by Ry Cooder and Dwight Yoakam.

Farewell to Flaco Jimenez, a true giant id Texas music.www.ksat.com/news/local/2…

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (@sterlewine.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T13:04:17.004Z

Flaco Jiménez, a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and accordion virtuoso who was widely regarded as the king of Tex-Mex music, recording material with acts like Dwight Yoakam, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, has died. He was 86.

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-08-02T03:30:05.138477Z

Bluesky posts on poll about Trump’s handling of the Epstein investigation

NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-28: Jeffrey Epstein% who approve | disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling investigations into Jeffrey EpsteinU.S. adult citizens 21% | 61%Democrats 5% | 90%Republicans 49% | 28%today.yougov.com/politics/art…

YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2025-07-29T20:13:19.933Z

Remember Record Theater in suburban Baltimore?

I remember Record Theater from the 1980s. I bought a CD player in 1984 and it was very hard to find CDs. As I recall, even a big store like Record Theater would have only about 50 different discs. There were no CD manufacturing plants in the US then. My copy of Born in the USA is made in Japan.

Here’s an article on the closing of the store:

Videos of Thomas Boswell’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame

The great writer Thomas Boswell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend.

Thomas Boswell’s speech in Cooperstown: ‘Thanks, baseball’ (Text of the speech)

I saw Boswell speak and sign books at Politics and Prose in Washington in 1989 when his book The Heart of the Order was released. He asked people if they were Orioles or Senators fans and would write an appropriate inscription – see mine below.

As I recall a woman said the book was for her nephew, a New York Mets fan. Boswell said something like “What do you want me to say? Good luck to obnoxious, arrogant Mets?”

Even more on four home runs in one game

Most home runs in a game: Complete list of 4-home run performances in MLB history

There have been only twenty of these – two this year which is the third season this has happened

update – now three times in 2025 which is a record. 21 times ever now.

Kyle Schwarber had a historical night, hitting FOUR home runs 💥More ⤵️www.nytimes.com/athletic/658…

The Athletic (@theathletic.com) 2025-08-29T01:44:53.200Z

Kyle Schwarber was the fourth player to have a shot at HR #5 in a game, that is – at least one PA post-HR #4:Bobby Lowe (1894) — first-ever 4-homer game!Lou Gehrig (1932)Mike Cameron (2002)Kyle Schwarber (2025)h/t @EliasSports

(@slangsonsports.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T02:41:21.022Z

Kyle Schwarber's wild box score line:6 4 4 9 with 4 HRPlayers in history with that line:Kyle Schwarber todayThat's a wrap on that list. It's just him.

Jayson Stark (@jaysonst.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T01:56:11.175Z

Nick Kurtz just had one of the greatest games in baseball history. 6 for 6 with four home runs, six runs and eight RBIs. He is a 22-year-old rookie.

Jeff Passan (@jeffpasan.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T03:00:47.674Z

Nick Kurtz is the 20th man to hit four home runs in a major-league game.The Baseball Hall of Fame will receive one of Kurtz’s bats, a scorecard and photograph to commemorate the occasion.More on a historic night: http://dlvr.it/TM7Lsj

The Athletic (@theathletic.com) 2025-07-26T15:01:13Z

Posts on Republicans and sex crimes

Republicans and sex crimes

Contrary to popular belief you don’t have to be a pedo to be an elected Republican, but it obviously doesn’t hurt

Island Privilege Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T02:20:42.541Z

There’s a kind of expected tit for tat between partisans over who does more crimes, whose worse etc. on most things obvs turpitude isn’t clearly partisan but having observed these things for years, theres an exception. Sex with minors, child porn, overwhelmingly Republicans.

Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T16:05:20.844Z

Trump’s Kentucky campaign chairman pleads guilty to multiple human trafficking charges

Remember:Every GOP/MAGA accusation is actually & ALWAYS a confessionGOP=Guardians Of Pedophiles2018-Tim Nolan sentenced in 2018 for 20 yrs for Child Sex Trafficking The long sordid history of GOP PredatorsHere’s 800+1-dailykos.com/stories/202@…2-www.endslaverynow.org/act/action-l…

Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 (@sueinrockville.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T13:16:38.387Z