Simple guy from Philadelphia interested in seeing democracy succeed. Proud Grad of the Class of 86.
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“Distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine … was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.” Rule #1 of conspiracy theories: You’re never more credulous than when you think you’re being suspicious. Beware the peddlers of distrust, too.
More importantly, Judge Sooknanan showed everyone how to properly deal with the presumption of regularity when it comes to this DOJ.
Do not get numb! Eyes wide open.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
What a twat.
And he doesn’t have to travel far from his bedroom?
FWIW, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan did more work on this case than Tim Kelly will do in the next 3 weeks.
Hahahaha Happy Birthday George!
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If there is, figure the punishment would equal that of the Hatch act. The administration will just laugh and laugh and laugh.
NEWS A federal judge BLOCKS the Trump admin from using the military in California for civilian law enforcement in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
Dunno but maybe if his priorities were based on the common good rather than punishing political rivals he’d never have made this statement.
though it was a smaller roll he was outstanding in The Green Mile.
Reasonable point.
"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
honestly wish the bruises that were reported was actually some type of flesh eating bacteria
he wouldn't cross the street let alone a highway median to help anyone except himself.
I drove by Princeton on Friday and waved....just in case you didn't see me do it.
Question. When this moment was realized, how many drummers had the band gone through? 2? 3?
Police report doesn’t back up Rudy’s press release. That’s all I know.
Just remember the opening lines of Teenage Wasteland Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don't need to fight to prove I'm right And I don't need to be forgiven You got this.
‘Presumption of regularity’ is the #1 phrase of the year (with a bullet)
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Oooh. A fake out.
Make SHAME great again.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
“This is our moment to reassert what it means to be American by speaking out and pushing back. The victory of the weak, malignant and unprincipled man is not inevitable.” www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
Dispatch from Anna 👇🏻
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
"Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers." Story here: www.status.news/p/democracy-...
Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Hahahaha. Well played.
pov: u just wrapped a panel presentation on the rule of law during Trump’s second term at the same hotel where Trump’s allies plotted to overturn the results of a presidential election during his first term 🙃 😬
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Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
"The challenge is not to stay in business; it is to stay in journalism.” From my latest: "Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics." In Columbia Journalism Review. www.cjr.org/feature/thir...
The jury is like a bar that won’t serve sandwiches.
You’re on a roll George.
Geez, Will. The DOJ is on a roll with these grand juries.
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
even a psychopathic sadist has a hidden softer side. #TheLongWalk in theaters Sept. 12th. #WalkOrDie
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
That earned Brian a block
Can someone please just create an AI Nobel and give it to him like how we give Playskool steering wheels to toddlers in carseats to make them feel like big boys?
Welcome to my hometown!!!
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
Big strong Whales are coming up to the president and with tears in their eyes are pleading with him to stop the madness around windmills.
Kilmar Abrego's lawyers ridicule the govt's claim, after Trump and his cabinet members tarred Abrego repeatedly in the press, that a defense filing was supposedly "incendiary." "Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
THANK YOU #POTUS for acknowledging Ukraine's Independence Day is what I would've written yesterday if he hadn't completely ignored it. #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
He needs an ending as grand as Gaddafi’s final minutes.
Important point from Gov Pritzker.
Yup. This is the new ‘suppress voter turnout’ strategy.
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
LaRose is a name I hate seeing in the news. The only silver lining is that he’s lashing out against Marc. 🤣
"In response to the lawsuit, LaRose lashed out at Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and firm chair of the Elias Law Group (ELG), which is representing the plaintiffs in the case." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Smart, educated people who actually know things want nothing to do with this criminal administration. The FBI will become just another branch of this kakistocracy.
Heh. I blocked him this morning after reading your post. Happy to make that number climb.
Is it though????
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
Anyone else wish it were flesh eating bacteria?
Correct….Right after his health care and infrastructure plans are introduced.
You mean I’m the only guy who still goes out every spring to get the latest blaupunkt HiFi system for my ride?
The Trump administration isn’t just “to the right.” It’s a white nationalist comfort zone. And they’re trying to pass it off as business as usual. Check this out…
We should all start wearing fake press credentials to match their fake police credentials.
Some personal news: I was not arrested this weekend 😂 Sorry to disappoint!!
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
The justification for the occupation of DC is that a DOGE employee was carjacked. What does this look like?
🔥🤜🏻
It’s ok though, maga doesn’t remember last week let alone how wars ended.
He needs it short and sweet. Save all those run on sentences for the floor of the house.
Hahahaha suck it DHS and especially you Stephen Miller.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
Even so, it still needs to be called what it is. Using the weight of the federal government for petty purposes.
Seems relevant
Will anyone dare credit Dog Shirt Daily as the first to report the FBI activity at John Bolton’s home?
Trump is trying to extend his pardon power into the state criminal process by threatening retaliation against state officials who don’t pardon his supporters!
Lol😆
more of this pls
“It’s not just a Texas problem. It’s an American problem.” @timothypmurphy.bsky.social sat down with Rep. James Talarico to talk about why we ALL should care about the Texas Republicans' redistricting plan.
More electric bill increases are coming. When you suppress wind and solar, you force the grid to call up expensive fossil fuel plants that set rates higher, and the higher costs land in your utility bills. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The “Hey Ed!” series is back Looking forward to Ed’s response!!!
Ed Martin’s latest stunt: pressuring someone he is criminally investigating to resign from public office “as an act of good faith.”
Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMw...
FWIW, Ali Velshi should be doing daily segments on this with you. He can keep up with this explainer.
This is great. I know when people think Putin has something on the administration, it must be salacious. The secret explained here is far more consequential IMO.
Reup: Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/s...
Reupping this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa... Every single journalist who watched this needs to understand that EVERY TIME Trump has survived political death has relied on Russian disinformation.
What a busy week. Thank you!!!
I think this is merely a ploy to find Big Balls phone that was stolen.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Well played. 🫶🏼
Wanna catch up on what happened during the 3-day bench trial in Newsom v. Trump? Our play-by-play live coverage is now up on the site: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/news...
Hahaha you’re like 12 minutes away from me.