Coffee Talk with Tiff

April 3, 2026 1:11 pm EDT Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

Shitshow’s public schedule for…

04/03/2026:


Flash News Friday…

I started the long process of reviewing my Twitter Bookmarks.

ICYMI:

Calls his son’s ex-girlfriend turned Ambassador to Greece “Kimberlay,” because apparently that’s his “little pet name.”

(03/26/2026):

Extra Creepy Said:

Kimberlay Guilfoyle. Kimbarly. No, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been my friend for a long time. I love calling her Kimberlay. That’s my little pet name, right? But you are the greatest, and I heard they love you over there. I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends. [Laughter]

[the transcript does not call her “Kimberlay”].

RollCall.com. 03/26/2026.

Same day. Same news cycle…

Ragoon Linea Stickerfrom Ragoon Stickers

There’s more in my bookmarks I could share, but I’m skipping ahead to the newer, more current chaos…

AG Barbie was “fired” yesterday…

Propaganda Bondi said she’s super excited about her new private sector gig.

The full tweet:

Reminder: Todd Blanche is also a former attorney of Dumpy.

Show more =’s President Trump for the first time in modern history has said I am the president and if you work in the executive branch, you work for me. And guess what? We can all read the constitution. He’s right. And unfortunately, past administrations, Republican included, have just resigned themselves to putting up with partisan actors within the DOJ. We do not.

New boss same as the old boss…

Jan 6er resigns from the DOJ after realizing he can’t just make shit up about what happened to him from the inside…

CBS News (04/02/2026):

Wise served as an FBI agent and a supervisory agent from 2004 to 2017. After leaving the bureau, he was charged in connection with Jan. 6, facing felony charges of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, as well as four misdemeanor counts. Prosecutors said that Wise encouraged the crowd outside the Capitol to hurt law enforcement officers, yelling: “Yeah, kill ’em!” They also accused him of entering the Capitol building.

Wise was pardoned by President Trump on the first day of his second term in office, along with nearly 1,600 other alleged rioters. Wise was in the middle of his trial at the time.

CBS News (04/02/2026).

Speaking of being fired…

After Pam Bondi’s ouster today, which followed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s firing last month, Cabinet secretaries and other senior administration officials were anxiously eyeing their phones, wondering whether they’d be next. One top official didn’t have to wait long: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the chief of staff of the Army, General Randy George. Several people familiar with the White House’s plans told us that there are active discussions about others leaving the administration, including FBI Director Kash Patel, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said that the timing is uncertain and that President Trump has not yet made up his mind. But what was once an unofficial motto of the second Trump term—“no scalps”—no longer applies.

[snip]

Officials in other departments told us that they regarded the Justice Department’s errors as harmful to the administration’s credibility with judges; they’d blown up what should have been easy wins for the president. “This has been festering across the administration for a while,” a second person close to the administration told us. “It’s the Epstein stuff, partly. It’s also the critiques of the indictments, like Comey. It’s a general sense of WTF—she’s not logging a lot of wins, not clocking a lot of good media.”

The Atlantic. 04/02/2026.

It’s Jobs report Friday.

BLS.gov:

The revisions:

From my first couple of read throughs it appears the biggest gain was in healthcare.

I’m still digging for the reason striking healthcare workers were counted as unemployed.

I know the first gut reaction is to not believe the data.

The data is likely correct; revisions next month could be wild.


His Choice War news…

04/02/2026:

Hours later:

This morning:

Following the posts it was reported that Iran has shot down a fighter jet.

At least one crew member has been rescued.


It’s Budget time in DC news.

Warmonger in Chief has released a not very detailed look at his requested budget for 2027.

Pg. 44 of the budget items requested:

You read that right. They are seriously asking for money to rebuild Alcatraz.

*Flashback*

Well, I guess, I was supposed to be a movie maker we’re talking, we started with the movie making it’ll end. I mean it-it represents something very strong very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order Alcatraz is I would say the ultimate right Alcatraz Sing Sing and Alcatraz. The movies but uh it’s right now a museum believe it or not a lot of people go there. It housed the uh most violent criminals in the world and nobody ever escaped, one person almost got there, but they as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up and uh it was a lot of shark bites a lot of lot of problems. Nobody’s ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something uh strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country and so we’re going to uh look at it some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And uh we had a little conversation I think it’s going to be very interesting we’ll see if we can uh bring it back in large form add a lot. But I think it represents something right now it’s a a big hulk that’s sitting there rusting and rotting, uh very uh you look at it it’s sort of an you saw that picture that was put out it’s sort of amazing, but it it sort of represents something that’s both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable weak it’s got a lot of it’s got a lot of qualities that are interesting and I think they they make a point. Okay are you guys okay I want to…

From the YouTube shitty auto-generated text transcript; it’s cued up to his remarks. 05/05/2025.

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