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As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] thatâs crazy
Also isnât the rose garden gone
I have been fighting this for years and finally have given up and am leaning in to my wooder era
Judges have by and large risen to this moment at great cost to their personal safety and livelihood only to get smacked down again and again by appellate courts and scotus bsky.app/profile/tose...
Many of us have been wondering for months how thinly federal district judges could be stretched before openly having to consider the futility of ruling fairly and justly under the reproachful eye of this SCOTUS
We're reached the stage of democratic backsliding where federal judges are openly musing in court that, if they rule in accordance with the law, corrupt loyalists on the Supreme Court will just say the law doesn't count, so maybe it isn't worth the effort.
One more for the file marked "stories that would have wall-to-wall coverage if the president was a Democrat"
Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought? If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/tips/
My question is, at what point does it not become a stunt? At what point does it become the thing it's trying to look like? When they carry weapons? When they shoot someone? When they surround the capitol building? When they're in the Senate chamber? When they put a bag over your head?
I could see this becoming a woo/wellness influencer trend
Democrats writing letters
The federal government
Crowd at Audi Field chanting âFree D.C.â at the Spirit match. #freedc
HAPPENING NOW: Temporary restraining order hearing in DC v. Trump, a suit filed this morning over Trump's effort to takeover the DC police. Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench. I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org Follow along âŹïž
dude.
IF YOU SEE AN ENCAMPMENT BEING CLEARED TONIGHT DM us location & what details you have (what police, how many, movements, vehicles) If you see someone being detained get as much info as possible: - legal name - DOB - emergency contact/case worker - where they are being taken (precinct or hospital)
this is just straight-up dictatorship and itâs repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still wonât say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
Not to mention lawmakers being assassinated in their homes in Michigan
In response to Trumpâs federal takeover of DC the city has quickly deployed the Sub Marines
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell theyâll say itâs nuanced and multifaceted, so i think itâs kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like âoh they took the idiot train to moronsvilleâ
I got confused for a minute too! So many appeals panels, so little time
She. Maybe youâre thinking of a different judge Henderson?
we should extradite any member of the Trump administration to any country which makes a claim, however implausible, that they have committed a crime in that jurisdiction notwithstanding that country's human rights record.
OMB is currently being sued by 23 states after dozens of agencies used the âif the award no longer effectuates agency prioritiesâ termination provision in the uniform guidance to mass-terminate grants. In response, OMB is changing the regs to make it even easier to mass-terminate grants.
Note the extensive revisions to the grant termination provisions, adding termination for convenience and forcing agencies to include such a provision in their own grant terms and conditions
âRuin their livesâ applies to people trying to curry favor too
âUh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting âTrump! Trump!â
at a certain point we have to say it isnt naivete. its stupidity and complicity.
My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trumpâs redistricting power grab. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first heâll have to come through us. Itâs time to fight back.
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isnât just treating donors like marksâitâs being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
This is reminiscent of how Citizens United unfolded
Itâs a golden age for Cassandras.
The former chief economist of the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee. 15 years at Heritage!
The civil service can not recover from this without legal and criminal consequences for Trump, Musk and Republican members of Congress who let it happen. A couple âgoodâ election cycles wonât cut it.
Jeffrey Clark is currently serving as the acting administrator of OIRA (OMBâs regulatory review office).
I still canât fucking believe not one person went to jail for doctoring up fraudulent electoral certificates
I think 90,000 square feet is roughly 2x the footprint of the current White House building. How on earth does that work behind the east wing? And whoâs paying for it?
I kept thinking all day yesterday, what does the new TX-32 remind me of? I finally realized
we are at my favorite part of the manufactured culture war news cycle where âthe left is out of control on the sydney sweeney adâ articles exclusively feature right wingers complaining about the backlash with zero (0) examples of prominent democrats actually complaining about the ad
Dear god these people are pathetic.
Cortez Masto and Rosen should be primaried on this nomination alone
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
society if he had taken the bus
New from me: Democrats ground the House to a halt because of Jeffrey Epstein files. Democrats are now talking about fighting Texasâs restricting efforts by diluting VRA districts. Itâs a sign that Democrats are figuring out how to fight. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Goes even harder now
And to my grandchildren I leave my collection of 23,671 bread ties
Slammed repost before even reading the article because of the headline
wrote about Angus King, Alex Lee, and Democrats who keep bringing the wet noodle of bipartisanship to a bazooka fight. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fucking-fi...
Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones
The "Obama did a coup" thing is a pathetic attempt to distract from growing evidence that Trump and Epstein abused kids together. Also, it's total bullshit Here's a fully-annotated point-by-point refutation of Gabbard's nonsense, evidence-free accusations: đ§”
And firing, too. Dunno how, but we cannot ever again allow a situation where the civil service has loyal fascists lying in wait for their next king. Big reason the admin did so much damage so quickly was bc they could deploy the Chuck Ezells and Matthew Vaeths to sit in the big boy chairs on day 1
Collins only shows this much backbone when her vote doesn't matter. So it looks like Bove will be confirmed.
How can we teach the children to read if they donât even fit inside the building
Thatâs the first question Ghislaine will ask Blanche
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
We joke but pickle juice is the secret to a killer mocktail margarita!!
Hunter Biden, unlikely voice of reason
Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.
An update to this story: Judge Sullivan in the DC District Court today held that the Trump/Vought OMB was unlawfully hiding their spending decisions in violation of Congress's "apportionment transparency" law. He vacated their action and issued a permanent injunction.
The New York Times supports Donald Trump and wants him to succeed.
These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence
It accomplished making me laugh at the hubris and idiocy of the far right and some days thatâs enough my friend
Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where theyâll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.
Voters do in fact select their congressional representatives for exactly this
We really really deserve a Trump news cycle that doesnât end with âah well, neverthelessâ
I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles
Well done, John Roberts.
I can hear Neil Gorsuch cracking his knuckles from here
Tillis was a big talker for like all of three days
The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They arenât pretending to try. There isnât even the veneer of law.
Supreme Court says the president canât abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isnât hypocrisy. Itâs end times fascismâa fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
It is incredibly difficult for people to accept truth about their circumstances if the truth points to something they themselves could have done differently to avoid it. People donât like feeling culpable or stupid and this will remain a problem until we figure out a message that can skirt that.
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government
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Indeed the knife cuts both ways
âWe tried to do border fascism first but Trump stopped usâ Jesus Christ you are dating a political strategist come on man!!!!
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
Watching Mark Warner and Tim Kaine here on the OPM vote especially. They represent more federal employees than any other lawmakers and have developed a nasty habit of voting to confirm Trump picks that disproportionately harm their constituents
The thing that disturbs me about the seeming lack of curiosity about the whereabouts of the FEMA director in the mainstream press is it feels like they are already buying into the Trump administration premise that government will no longer function in a useful way. Obeying in advance, if you will.
My own sadness and trepidation for our democracy grows every time a powerful liberal extends the presumption of normality to this administration
Sonia Sotomayor: with great sadness and trepidation for our democracy, I dissent Also Sonia Sotomayor: I join my esteemed colleagues in allowing Trump to dismantle the civil service because he put âconsistent with applicable lawâ in the EO
It's not a "funding freeze" or "hold." It's an unlawful seizure of federal funds and it's categorically unconstitutional. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
please be kind. discuss the failings of the federal and state governments that led to this but the victims of this were children at a fucking summer camp. they didn't vote for anything. i am literally begging you to maintain some human empathy here
hey media if the president of the fucking united fucking states of fucking america says that bankers are shylocks and the opposing party hates america and he hates them and you don't make that headline news you're fucking fascist water carrying motherfuckers and your business should die unmourned
Theyâre fucking building concentration camps and the paper of record ran with a Nazi-sourced story about a college application that was not even successful and weâll be talking about it for a week
trump shouldâve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
Massie rolling back in to flip his vote to no is, unfortunately, hilarious. I am pro life and take no pleasure in reporting this
I feel like Iâm walking around all day trying to figure out who is also internally screaming âTHEYâRE BUILDING THE CAMPS AND WEâRE JUST SUPPOSED TO GO ABOUT OUR DAY???â while doing the mundane shit we do as we go about our day
It really is amazing how far down the list this is on the outrage scale for Trump when any other president saying something like this would have been a massive scandal, complete with Senate hearings over accusations of quid pro quo and cronyism.
âThe man accused of fatally shooting two firefighters in an ambush in rural Idaho on Sunday had "Nazi tendencies" in school, sketched pictures of guns and swastikas in a notebook and was "obsessed with guns," three former classmates told USA TODAY.â Not surprised
âIt is time to talk about lustration, the process of vetting and removing from public service those who engage in or support extremism or seek to undermine democracy.â Lustration: remember this word, because weâre going to need it.
One lone Republican could channel the legendary pettiness of John McCain and it would be the most iconic moment of their career
What if GOP Senators who tell Dem Senators things like âkeep speaking up, youâre our conscienceâ are not expressing true feelings theyâre too scared or weak to say in public, but are playing you, saying stuff they donât mean, but you like hearing and will pass on? After all, look at their actions.
A federal judge is keeping this man in jail to protect him from the federal government.
I don't say this lightly: After this, any Democratic officeholder who continues to promote false claims that Zohran Mamdani is a supporter of terrorism is a fascist collaborator.