Saturday, March 29, 2025

Dear Carl Gibson, Just in case you hadn't noticed, Hamilton County Indiana is moving away from its deeply conservative roots. Best, Retiring Guy


In 1984, Ronald Reagan won Hamilton County by 65 percentage points.  In 2024, Donald Trump won the county by just 6 percentage points.  That's a lot of shrinkage.

Source of election results and population:  Wikipedia

AlterNet, 3/28/2025

Carl Gibson reports:
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) held a town hall meeting on Friday in Westfield, Indiana, which is in reliably conservative Hamilton County. According to WIRED reporter Jake Lahut, Trump won the county by a 51-45 margin in November, and Spartz defeated her Democratic opponent by 18 percentage points. Politico national political correspondent Adam Wren tweeted that there were approximately 500 people present at the event.

It's the fastest-growing county in Indiana.

Source:  Wikipedia

And the most highly educated.  Not fertile ground for MAGA.

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 60.8% - Hamilton County
  • 28.2% - Indiana
  • 34.3% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 14.4% - Hamilton County
  • 17.2% - Indiana
  • 17.7% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  •   4.4% - Hamilton County
  • 12.1% - Indiana
  • 11.1% - U.S. 

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Spineless Skadden law firm cowers and caves in the face of First Felon Donald Trump executive order

 
Photo credit: Los Angeles Times
Headline:  CBS News, 3/28/2025
The agreement makes Skadden Arps the second major firm to reach a deal with Mr. Trump amid a recent blitz of executive orders targeting law firms that have employed his purported political opponents. The orders issued by the president have focused on the firms Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, known as WilmerHale. 
All three of those firms have filed federal lawsuits challenging the executive orders as a violation of the First Amendment. A federal judge in Washington blocked parts of Mr. Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie earlier this month, and on Friday, two separate judges issued temporary restraining orders halting the president's actions against Jenner & Block and WilmerHale. 
While Mr. Trump earlier in the month issued an order going after a fourth firm, Paul, Weiss, it was rescinded after the international firm agreed to provide $40 million in free legal services to support causes backed by the administration.

Learning a lesson from the above examples of cowardice, a couple of law firms recently showed some spine.



NPR, 3/28/2025


Cowering parade of spinelessness:
March 2025

February 2025

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Trump's kids at play: Pete Hegseth's emoji fest puts America's military at risk

 
Top headline: Slate, 3/26/2025
Bottom headline:  New York Times, 3/26/2025

Dan Kois reports at Slate:
But I want to focus on another aspect of the messages, the one that I find, upon reflection, unexpectedly upsetting: the emoji! 
“I will say a prayer for victory,” J.D. Vance texted, to which two people responded with the prayer-hands emoji. 
When Waltz reported to the group that the target—“their top missile guy”—had entered his girlfriend’s house and that the house has been destroyed, someone reacted with the thumbs-up emoji. 
And then Waltz wrote, in response to a military action that, according to reports, killed 53 Yemenis: “👊🇺🇸🔥. 
” I’ve understood, on some level, how fundamentally unserious so many members of the Trump administration are about government, about duty, and about service. But reading these messages, and boggling at these emoji—at these high-ranking government officials responding to operational details of an airstrike the way I do to my daughter texting me that she got an A on her English paper—really drove home how repulsive this all is. [emphasis added]
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