The Village Hemorrhoid: April 2026

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 4.30.2026

Why Am I Not Surprised

Attorney General Liz Murrill alleges NOLA Sheriff Susan Hutson's poor leadership enabled 10 inmates to escape from behind a toilet.
A Louisiana sheriff is facing a slew of charges stemming from the infamous New Orleans jailbreak that resulted in one of the largest inmate escapes in U.S. history.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, 59, was issued a sweeping 30-count indictment alleging obstruction of justice, malfeasance and falsifying public records on Wednesday, according to a press release from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office.

Chief Financial Officer Bianka Brown was also slapped with 20 felony counts, officials added.
The charges stem from a May 2025 incident in which 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center, Murrill’s office said.
"Nearly a year ago, I made a commitment to the people of New Orleans and the people of our state that those responsible for the Orleans Parish Prison break would be held accountable," Murrill said in a statement.
"Since that day, through the hard work of my office, along with the Louisiana State Police and our many federal, state and local law enforcement partners, every escapee is behind bars, and others who facilitated and enabled the escape are currently being prosecuted."
Murrill also alleges Hutson’s poor leadership played a key role in the escape of nearly a dozen dangerous inmates, including some facing murder charges, after they broke out of jail from behind a toilet.
All 10 inmates were subsequently captured after a nationwide manhunt.
"While Sheriff Hutson did not personally open the doors of the jail for the escapees, her refusal to comply with basic legal requirements and to take even minimal precautions in the discharge of her duties directly contributed to and enabled the escape," Murrill said.
The charges come just days before Hutson was set to leave office after only receiving 17% of the vote in her re-election bid in October, FOX 8 reported.
Hutson’s term was reportedly plagued by the infamous jailbreak, several other controversies and calls for her to resign as sheriff.
She had never worked in a jail when she unseated four-term former Sheriff Marlin Gusman in 2021 and had minimal law enforcement experience after working as the city’s independent police monitor and an attorney specializing in police oversight, according to FOX 8.
Additionally, state auditors recently reported nearly $260,000 in suspicious overpayments for security details, with previous scandals involving allegations that Hutson dropped large sums of cash on hotel rooms for her top officials during Mardi Gras, according to FOX 8.
A judge has set Hutson’s bond at $300,000 and Brown’s bond at $200,000, while also ordering both women to hand over their passports and remain in the state of Louisiana.
Hutson and Brown are scheduled to appear in court for a status hearing Thursday.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-sheriff-charged-toilet-jailbreak-let-10-inmates-escape-lockup-fiasco?msockid=260e645936d16cb92ed674a237296dbb

Johnny Carson Was The Last Of The Classy Late Night Comedians

https://x.com/gentrywgevers/status/2049191344300585093

Although I will submit that Jay Leno did crack me up more than a few times also. He had a different style than Carson but he still had the attitude of a comedian. I am open to opposing opinions because I probably didn't see all of his shows.

Lithium Jackpot In Appalachia

(They better watch their ass trying to dig lithium out from under some of these Appalachians who haven't let strangers roam around on their mountains for hundreds of years. js.)

In the latest news from this front, while it has been long known that there were deposits of lithium in American Appalachia, on Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum took to his official X account to announce that these deposits are considerably larger than previously thought.

A press release issued Tuesday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has more details.
The southern Appalachians hold an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of lithium oxide, concentrated in the Carolinas, and the northern Appalachians hold an estimated 900,000 metric tons, concentrated in Maine and New Hampshire, according to estimates in a new USGS scientific paper published in Natural Resources Research. The lithium is present in pegmatites, large-grained rocks similar to granite.
“This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs – a major contribution to U.S. mineral security, at a time when global lithium demand is rising rapidly,” said USGS Director Ned Mamula. “USGS mineral science is the leading edge in the effort to restore America’s mineral independence by mapping our nation’s mineral resources. Everything else follows on the science: permitting reform and other policy changes to support investment in clean, responsible mining to 21st century standards, and mining workforce training for new American jobs. The United States was the dominant world producer of lithium three decades ago, and this research highlights the abundant potential to reclaim our mineral independence.”

Lithium has a wide range of uses. Aside from batteries for everything ranging from smartphones to electric vehicles, lithium is used to make heat-resistant glass and ceramics, lubricants, pharmaceuticals (lithium salts are widely used to treat bipolar disorder and depression), metal alloys, and a lot more. And, at the moment, we import the vast majority of the lithium used in the United States, mostly from Chile and Argentina. These are (mostly) friendly countries, so it's perhaps better than getting it from China, but foreign sources can be cut off, relationships can change, and other countries can outbid us. Domestic supplies are secure.
Furthermore, much of Appalachia has substantial mining infrastructure in place. These finds will not only provide a secure domestic source of a vital, strategic resource but also revitalize the mining sector in Appalachia, which means "jobs, baby, jobs."
According to USGS, this find would yield enough lithium to make:
The estimated 2.3 million metric tons of lithium oxide in the Appalachian region would be enough lithium for batteries in:
1.6 million grid-scale batteries large enough to stabilize an electric grid.
130 million electric vehicles.
180 billion laptops, or a 1,000 year-supply of laptops for the world (at 2025 levels).
500 billion cellphones, or 60 cellphones for each person on earth.

Florida Senate Passes New Redistricting Map - 21-17

The state of Florida is about to have a new redistricting map that will likely give Republicans four more seats in Congress.
The map is now headed to the desk of Governor DeSantis to be signed into law.

Current Map

Proposed Map

Here’s more from CBS News:
The Florida Legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that aims to give Republicans four more seats as the party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
The bill now goes to DeSantis’ desk for final approval. The votes happened hours after the Supreme Court narrowed a section of the Voting Rights Act, which could result in Republicans nationwide working to redraw congressional districts with a majority of Black or Latino voters that tend to favor Democrats. At least one of the districts that DeSantis had redrawn was a majority Hispanic district in central Florida.
Florida is currently represented in the U.S. House by 20 Republicans and seven Democrats, with one Democratic-leaning seat vacant after Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned earlier this month. DeSantis’ proposed map aims to eliminate or shrink Democratic-leaning districts in Tampa, Orlando and parts of the state’s southeast coast.
The Senate voted 21-17, with four Republicans and one independent voting with all the Democrats.
The state House voted along party lines, with no Republicans opting to debate it in the roughly 90-minute session. Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, who is challenging Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, tried to interrupt the proceedings with a pink bullhorn to stop the final vote, but it went ahead anyway.
DeSantis posted on social media that the Supreme Court decision “invalidates the below provisions of the FL Constitution requiring the use of race in redistricting: ‘districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice.'”
This is a great move by DeSantis and I’m glad he had the basis of removing racially gerrymandered districts in order to accomplish this, especially in light of today’s SCOTUS ruling.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

In Major Ruling, Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Racial Gerrymanders Are Unconstitutional - Much Less Required By The Constitution

GO RED ! DO IT NOW !

Death to gerrymandering.

I don't know if the southern states affected like this can impose an emergency redistricting double-quick for the midterms, but some analysts believe that this ruling will eventually flip 19 Democrat seats to Republican.
The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation, and Democrats are not going to like it one bit.
In a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the majority held that Louisiana's congressional map, redrawn to include a second majority-black district, constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Court stopped short of striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act entirely, but it dramatically narrowed the ways in which states may use race when drawing congressional maps.

While not overturning section 2 of the VRA, it construes it into near-irrelevance. All minority voters are entitled to is that the map drawers NOT use race as a metric in drawing their maps.

No more majority-minority districts.

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2049493589047066633

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2049555638003302716

Florida's New Redistricting Map Moves To The Florida Senate

https://x.com/FLVoiceNews/status/2049508175368315113

Rep. Angie Nixon is, of course, a Democrat.

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 4.29.2026

I Was WRONG

I know, you guys are all wearing your shocked faces. It's true, it doesn't happen but once or twice in a blue moon, but I was wrong about Byron Donalds.

My brother was visiting this past weekend and among other things, we discussed politics. I mentioned Donalds and he immediately told me that Donalds wasn’t who I thought he was and that Jay Collins was the best choice … and after checking out some videos he sent me and then doing some more research … I stand corrected.
I dug up some Grant Warrington videos after my brother sent me a video that I traced back to him.

I actually talked smack to a commenter on this blog who called me out, without any links, or options, about the matter, about the fact that I advocated for Donalds for governor. I argued back. I don’t remember who you were … but I apologize … sincerely.

Some people insist on Bobby Williams but I was unable to gleam much to affect my opinion, good or bad, about him.

So for now, I will be in the Jay Collins camp. Some people hate Collins and call him a DeSantis boot-licker ... those are usually people who hate DeSantis because they are too stupid to realize that DeSantis is the best governor Florida has ever had ... well in my lifetime anyway.

You can't make your decision on these two videos, I didn't, but there is much more out there. I found enough to make me change my mind in just 3 days.

https://x.com/GrantWarr1/status/2048116379853676825

Grant Warrington on Byron Donalds vs Jay Collins

6:55 - Trump endorsement
8:10 - George Floyd / Citizenship for illegals
9:20 - DeSantis on Donalds vs Collins
And there’s much more.