Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)

🤨🤨At least seven top prosecutors inside the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia — including some involved in #Jan6 prosecutions — have been demoted to entry-level positions by the new Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney, multiple officials told NBC News.

" #Trump's decades-long worship of John Gotti-style mob rule reached its zenith Friday in the Oval Office, with the shakedown of #Ukraine's #Zelensky aided by his underboss #JDVance

Like Gotti, America's embrace of an amoral strongman will not end well.

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.© 🧵 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-zelensky-ukraine-mob-boss-20250302.html

2/ "With underboss JD Vance & his foreign policy consiglieres, he pulled off public shakedown, offering protection to recalcitrant citizen Zelensky & exploding w rage when Ukrainian pres turned down Trump’s offer he wasn’t supposed to refuse..Most of world & at least 1/2 of Amer's were shocked to watch this truly momentous event in US history—the betrayal of a democratic friend, realpolitik embrace of strongman doctrine, & rejection of our global alliances—play out on 10 stark mins of live TV"

3/ "(Minus journalists from AP & Reuters, banned by hostile-to-1st Amend Trump regime, yet witnessed by reporter for Russian news agency Tass who was mysteriously allowed into the Oval)..The no-longer leader of the free world sure sounded more like Sammy “The Bull” Gravano when he rhetorically asked journalist, ”What if a bomb drops on your head rt now?” Vance’s incessant demand that Zelensky thank America for presumably saving him from getting whacked by Putin was only lacking a basebll bat"

4/ "On a certain level it’s hard to know what to say about what just happened that is new or insightful. We told you so? What were you expecting differently after living through four years of Trump 45?

Yet this was, to be sure, a moment of clarity for what America has become and how the rest of the world now perceives us."

5/ "If America is still the world’s policeman, then we are Derek Chauvin with our knees on the neck of Ukraine or Panama, ripping off their “raw earth” or blackmailing them to take our shackled prisoners.

But why?...Gotti, beaming from the front pages of the Post and Daily News, appeared to the unmoored masses to offer what at a time of a crack-driven murder epidemic and the LA riot was missing: order. In other words, he alone could fix it."

6/ "There’s no evidence that Trump & Gotti ever met, but clear that the so-called Dapper Don was a role model for developer Donald, who shared an atty in Trump’s infamous mentor, Roy Cohn, as Trump navigated Gotti’s associates & his crew in the mobbed-up world of Manhattan construction & Atlantic City casinos. Indeed, the devil’s bargain of “raw earth”—overpriced Gambino concrete —in return for labor peace at Trump high-rise projects was clearly the blueprint for his Ukrainian extortion" scheme"

7/ "I'f Trump has a political theory at all, it’s... the system is just an interlocking series of rackets & ‘this is just the way the world works.’”

Trump is now the boss, & he seeks to rule America not like the 44 presidents who came before him, but like the mobster who once competed w him for the Post’s daily front pg. You see it in his Teflon Donald ability to duck prison, his skimming of tributes for his “legitimate businesses,” but mainly in his all-encompassing need to display domination"

The Republican Party color is red for a reason

“Kremlin Says U.S. Foreign Policy Shift Aligns With Its Own Vision” - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/kremlin-says-us-foreign-policy-shift-aligns-with-its-own-vision-a88217

You’re welcome.

#Doonesbury #Comics #Musk

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/02

Via Alt National Park Service on Bsky:

#Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

Keep ‘em coming

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that #Trump's firing of Hampton Dellinger, the head of a key federal whistleblower agency, was illegal. The judge has ordered the Trump administration to recognize Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-exceeded-authority-firing-special-counsel-dellinger/

Keep ‘em coming

“Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the #Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/national-parks-trump-protests.html

Keep ‘em coming. #TeslaTakedown

“Demonstrators gathered at more than 50 #Tesla showrooms across the United States on Saturday in protest of CEO #Musk’s role in slashing government agencies as part of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency [sic] established by #Trump”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/business/tesla-takedown-musk-doge?cid=ios_app

Don't ever tell me pressure doesn't work. Every little bit counts.

Via Alex Berg:

Fox News [sic] reported that #JDVance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

More like this please. And into a mic.

@ErickaSimone Back off.

My family and friends, and myself, voted for Harris. And as for the rest of what you’ve been accusing me of, you are way off.

Generally, I’ve told you I agree with you. But when you personalize it like this, you are crossing a line that I have not crossed with you, nor would I. We don’t even know each other.

Making points, valid or not, is fine. Making false assumptions is quite another.

#Toodles

@Nonya_Bidniss @lednaBM Thank you both.

Attacking my family was the last straw. Accusing me, them, of being Trump supporters?? That’s nuts.

@ErickaSimone Um, I voted for Kamala. I showed up.

@ErickaSimone My parents did. My sibling did. ?????

Your general point is well taken, but please don’t personalize this to me or my family.

As for asking Harris to speak out, I didn’t single her out. I asked for all leaders to speak out. We need to hear from them. That’s a valid ask.

And I wasn’t asking for her, or anyone, to “save” the US. I was asking for leadership, guidance, encouragement. She and others promised after the election, they’d provide that. They haven’t yet.