The thing that's telling to me is the Trump administration really has no stake in Abrego Garcia's case except to prove that they are beyond the law. They created a test case and even made sure to acknowledge that he's wrongly imprisoned.

They are saying they can do this at will to anybody. It's pure State Terror 101 and control.

The Supreme Court has no enforcement capacity beyond the rule of law. Federal Marshalls are under the Department of Justice which Trump controls.

The only check on Trump would be an impeachment, which is not going to happen with this Congress.

And even if he were impeached by both the House and Senate, and removed from office I feel he would claim it was invalid.

Also, while he's started by deporting immigrants who were here illegally, he's quickly ramped up to Green Card holder who are legal residents, and has indicated he would like to rescind citizenship for people who were born here. It's an ethnic purge driven by White Supremacy and Christian Nationalism.

Finally, the way the right has demonized trans issues and used it as a wedge issue, suggests to me that they will attempt to (starting in red states) declare anyone who is transgender to be mentally ill, forced hospitalization, conversion therapy and also will attempt to take custody of trans kids from their parents. The anti-trans legislation is already pretty insane in a lot of red states.

They will definitely try to roll back gay marriage, and legal protections for gays as these are affronts to Christian Nationalism.

All, the while Trump will grift like a motherfucker and stack up billions for himself and his family.

And even if he were impeached by both the House and Senate, and removed from office I feel he would claim it was invalid.

Of course he would. And in the event that anyone at all tried to enforce it, his followers would make January 6 look like a picnic.

I'm having trouble distuishing between my personal worries and national ones at this point.

I've started utterly flying off the handle at small things that AREN'T related to this crisis we're in. Last night it was ants in my office, because yes I eat in there but it's not like I'm spilling things and not cleaning them up, and besides we have a quarterly pest control service just to control the ant issue and this is the first time we've HAD a lot of ants in over a year. And this morning it was the fact that the higher ups in our division removed one of my department's website pages without even telling our director about it, and how DARE they leave us with a broken link and no explanation when people from campus call asking where the info went!? And yeah, ants are annoying and overbearing senior management are worse, but normally in my Zoloft-enhanced middle age I'm a lot more chill about these things.

Dylan has reminded me that I need to take care of myself and not have a heart attack so I can live to piss on certain graves, which is surprisingly motivating.

Sorry to be all apocalyptic, but he's only been in office for three months, and he is blasting by democratic norms at a blazing speed and the more he wrecks, and the more chaos he sows, the more power (and wealth) he accrues.

Another big tell is that the Supreme Court ruling was unanimous. Even Clarence Thomas was like, "Yo, bro, gotta respect the law!" And Trump's like, "No, remember I was granted immunity by Roberts? I don't have to. I'm the most powerful man in the world and I'm on a revenge tour. Habeas Corpus? I never met the bitch."

We are watching BBC News, and unfortunately, they air the White House media briefing. DH wants to watch it, and the pandering by the friendly "journalists" is nauseating. Time for me to make lunch. I can't watch.

{deep breath}

In other news, I had my first check in after starting Ozempic. I'm down 9 lbs in two weeks.

I'm not sure it'll stay at that pace but it's a good start. Pants are definitely looser.

I'm eating three small meals a day, no carbs. My drinking is down to one or two drinks a night. Last night I didn't finish my second drink.

The Pilates is definitely a lot harder than staying on the diet.

Today I learned what a fish kettle is. I have been picturing "a fine kettle of fish" all wrong for forever

David, that kind of progress has to be encouraging!

Might one say it was a different kettle of fish entirely?

David, that kind of progress has to be encouraging!

It is! Though they upped the dosage today and now I'm feeling queasy. Need more crystalized ginger.