pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Really, “hard questions?” I am sure he is quaking in his boots.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Really, “hard questions?” I am sure he is quaking in his boots.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no plausible legal rationale for this action. Period.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a peep from Congress.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Welp, all the national park service folks who normally are paid to do this have been fired.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Such utter bullshit.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it me or is there more gold in the Oval Office every week? It is positively rococo.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
I am 100% sure the fact that she is a Black woman and the first to serve on the Bd of Governors is just a coincidence.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember he had to be talked out of invading Venezuela in his first term. No one is there to talk him out of it now.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
How can anyone believe what he says or think he will honor agreements?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Wondering if any of these five are in the just released US News best schools of Virginia list.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
A total farce.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
So a federal prosecutor could not get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
What about Trump’s “deadline” for a Putin ceasefire that already passed?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
TRO time?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Or they are doing all this for her so she keeps her mouth shut.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe he forgot that his AI bots may have eliminated those regulations.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
But that’s the point.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Oops.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Boom.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Has he even heard of the first amendment?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
I will go out on a limb and say these five seats won’t matter because republicans will lose the House by a lot more.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump and his administration know they’re going to lose these lawsuits. But winning them isn’t the point. The point is to intimidate others.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
How can we trust numbers coming out of this administration, when many of the long time civil servants who toiled to produce accurate numbers are gone?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is because most people alive today have never seen the diseases that modern vaccines avoid, and the death and misery they wreak. A few thousand dead children will remind them.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This whole charade always was going to be a boon to private prison companies. This about if money is I scene and will not be used wisely or humanely.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
I understand the different circumstances.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Moving disaster money over to house immigrants-didn’t the republicans accuse Biden of doing this?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
She will be subject to state prosecution.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump still hasn’t figured out that other countries aren’t going to prostrate themselves before him and they will deny his statements about them that aren’t true.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Please report on why our tax dollars are being used so Trump can fly to Scotland and promote his businesses? Unbelievable that any other President in our history would do such a thing, and if they did, Congress would be investigating it yesterday.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Why are our tax dollars being spent so Trump can promote his businesses?? And it gets barely a mention, if any.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
But I will talk about pardons while saying it is not the time to talk about pardons.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Huge lawsuit coming, I hope.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
He was impeached in his first term for withholding appropriated funds-now 10 Republicans “pressure” him to release them.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
And just a couple days after Colbert is canceled.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
A central question is whether she has immunity. And what promises DoJ is making to her .
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Her actions should be null and void.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Does she have immunity?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
In light of the shadow docket overruling of Humphries, could Congress create entities within the legislative branch, like the CBO or LoC, tasked with investigating issues, recommending legislative changes, among other functions, rather than making them part of the executive branch?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
She is busy concocting this nonsense rather than protecting this nation from real threats.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Have they read the Bill of Rights? They only have to read the first one - it covers this issue.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Utterly reckless and catastrophically stupid.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
She is way out of her lane. US attorneys are confirmed by Congress, so their appointment is a shared responsibility under the Constitution, not a “core Article II power” of the President. The Constitution also gives Congress the authority to have the judiciary appoint them, which Congress did.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
An obvious ploy for her to get back in Trump’s good graces. She has been completely sidelined.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
The US is not a serious country.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Does she even have that authority?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
As he should be.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is all to get back in Trump’s good graces. She was completely sidelined.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, it’s financial-they want the merger to go through.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is sickening. An 82 year old man in this country legally for decades is disappeared-in America. Trump, Miller, Noem, and the rest of this sorry cabal of psychopaths have turned America into Germany circa 1938. They should be ashamed of themselves, but they are incapable of that emotion.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
No officials in the ground until days later? Majority of phone calls unanswered?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
All a performative farce.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump will just withhold funding he doesn’t like. The feckless Republican Congress has made itself irrelevant. Article I is dead.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you, Senator Kaine. I support you!
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Has the funding been allocated and appropriated by Congress? If so, yet another example of Trump’s impeachable failure to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
It means more than that - it is the presumption that the government has handled matters in a way commensurate with law and regulation.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, I know.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
We have the exact wrong Supreme Court at the exact right time. The majority are willing enablers of the destruction of separation of separation of powers and the remaking of the office of the president-this President-as a dictatorship.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s all in Project 2025
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
It shows what this has come to when a federal judge has to order the government to obey the law.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Regularity.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Taking resources away from real threats.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you heard any reports that Hegseth has been drinking?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Who can even keep up with this nonsense? A chart tracking these announcements for every country would be nice.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he intentionally manipulating the copper market in order to profit?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Too little, too late. I am glad he has found a conscience but it would have been better for this country-and his state-if he hadn’t lost it in the first place.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
While paradoxically Powell was the best appointment Trump has made.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Tillis knew better than to vote for Hegseth and did it anyway. If advisors are leading Trump around by the nose, so to speak, that says more about Trump than it does the advisors.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
The strategic thought behind the tariff plan.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the kind of batshit crazy stuff that in his first term a cabinet member would have secretly taken off his desk because he would forget about it by the next day.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
No conditions on Texas aid, right, like mandatory warning sirens or anything at all?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Boom.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
The Republican Party and its acolytes do not believe in science, and in fact have to discredit science and expertise in order to amass more unchecked power, so it makes perfect sense that they will decimate the NSF and every other scientific investment this nation makes.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
There are heroes and cowards in our everyday midst. A tragedy like this reveals both.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess they skipped over the beatitudes.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Clinging to supply side economics and trickle down even though it has been discredited over and over again.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
So he could shift the blame. He always does this.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
The blame bullseye now is on you and your boss. The buck stops with you and him.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Is anyone listening to him about this anymore?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
These loans caps are all part of Trump and Republicans’ attack on higher education. They have to limit and delegitimize it in order to garner more power to themselves.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
USMA is lucky to have you. Congratulations.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
We knew Trump would create his version of the SD.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Manufacturers actually are abandoning plans to build facilities that were slated to be constructed because of Biden’s climate and green energy initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act. And most of this plants and the jobs they would bring were in Republican districts.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks likeTrump thinks SHE is undermining his agenda, so he has frozen her out.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
He is violating the law every minute while the Republican Congress just sits by and lets him.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally and figuratively.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
And he will take no action against Russia because of it.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
What a shocker-they all caved.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
No, that would be a military coup.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Another lawsuit is required to force this lawless President to comply with the law.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
If this concentration camp is legal under US law, our laws must be changed. Utterly appalling, both the facility and the smirking, laughing idiots who think treating human beings like this is just fine.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Total capitulation. Complete cowardice.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
This “Presidential Library,” which I predict will never be built, is his latest grift.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s out and out extortion or a bribe to win approval of the merger.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Father, what can we do? We protest, we vote against these people, we call and write our representatives. What can we do to help the people that will be kept here and other places like this?
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
An appalling photograph of appalling people in an appalling setting-an American concentration camp. These people are psychopaths, with no capacity for empathy. And they all call themselves Christians.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, great. And predictable. And predicted.
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
“But I still voted for it.”
pham60.bsky.social (@pham60.bsky.social) reply parent
They basically are trying to undo electing a Democratic President and the legislative accomplishments of his tenure.