Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Here’s the kicker folks: #Alabama allows mail-in voting, too.
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Here’s the kicker folks: #Alabama allows mail-in voting, too.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Completely delusional and out of touch.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
“The stock market is down because the stock market wants and needs the tariffs” ~ President Trump Now playing up and under: youtu.be/c0csHgHwTC8
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Mike Johnson Pulls Shady Move as Pressure Over #Epstein Files Escalates newrepublic.com/post/199885/...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Pivots to trashing NBC News…. And something about pleas from people to come to Illinois. Pivots to Baltimore claiming it is an unsafe city… (At this point three of the guys behind him including Vance are staring to make wincing/eye batting looks as he rambles incoherently talking in circles)
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump dumping on Gov. Pritzker and spewing unsubstantiated facts calling Chicago a “hellhole.” “We’re going in” - meaning Chicago. Pivots to claims that DC is a safe zone and no crime. Rambling monologue about DC.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump just claimed that these Russians and Ukranians are dying for “no reason.”
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Now he wants former military vets as teachers to be armed in schools.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
WTF 😳 Trump says he’s moving Space Force because… What??? Because Colorado has mail in voting? 25A!!!!!! Tubby says it’s a National security issue. 😝 The high ground is in the mountains of Colorado stupid and in the center of the country for a reason.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
When this is all over, House Speaker Mike Johnson will go down in history as the worst speaker ever.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Good points… reports claimed 1,000 FBI agents were charged with scrubbing the files for Trump’s name. Rep. Massie officially filed his Epstein files discharge petition:
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
The Nazi regime politicized and corrupted the judiciary, turning it into an instrument of state terror and enforcing National Socialist ideology. This "Nazification" of the courts allowed the regime to persecute opponents, racial minorities, and dissenters under the guise of law.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Good question.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
They also did an immediate cleaning to clean house of existing experienced and qualified immigration judges when Trump took office. Administrative law judges have deep expertise in immigration law that other judges don’t have.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
The boy who cried “emergency” one too many times. President Trump on Tuesday said a court's ruling blocking most of his tariffs "was an emergency," and that the admin would seek an immediate hearing from the #SupremeCourt and will appeal as soon as Wednesday. www.axios.com/2025/09/02/t...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
I can’t be the only one reacting to this. My father interviewed the lawyers who were at the Nuremberg trials. They told him about what happened to the system of Justice in Germany. Then he spoke to lawyers who had fled to Israel from Russia… the same stories over and over again… and now US!
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Militarizing the Justice Department is game over for Justice.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
This is because the Florida’s fascist Attorney General and Governor DeSantis proposed doing the same thing at Alligator Auschwitz before a Federal judge shut it down!!!
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
We don’t need military tribunals in America at militarized concentration camps. Hegseth can go pound sand. We are not at war. These are not combatants. Defense Secretary Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 #military lawyers to the Justice Dept to serve as temp immigration judges. #legal
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Trump deployment of military troops to #LosAngeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion #legal www.latimes.com/california/s...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG 😆 he needs to just go away. Using stupid AI to make tariff algorithm percentage calcs like he did with the Marshall Islands!!! 🐧
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Because partisan hack publicity hound Jeanine Pirro is an idiot hotdog looking for scapegoats and needs to go back to FOX News 😝 and be fired. www.mediaite.com/politics/jud...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
lol - another early vacation break to avoid tomorrow’s presser.
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
"If the federal government truly cared about safety in the district, it would restore the $1 billion in local tax dollars that Congress recently blocked... Instead, federal taxpayer money is being spent on troops and a federal police takeover" #DC www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting #Louisiana www.propublica.org/article/lloy...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump’s Crime Crackdown Isn’t Holding Up in Court. Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive #legal failure. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Trump can't stop LOSING in court. #legal youtu.be/xw5Ezt9gTdc
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown Grand juries have declined to indict at least six times in recent weeks as part of President Trump's federal policing in Washington. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, there are many lessons in urban recovery and resilience from New Orleans www.brookings.edu/collection/n...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Wow, smart move.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Note: Both representatives Massie and Khanna believe they already have enough support (including all 212 House Democrats & several Republicans) to secure the 218 signatures needed to bring the matter to the floor.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
🚨BREAKING #News Rep. Thomas Massie just filed a discharge petition to force a House vote on the #Epstein Files Transparency Act. This is Congress’s nuclear option. If 218 members sign, leadership can’t bury it. The DOJ would be compelled to release the Epstein files, w/survivor names protected.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Did we tariff them too? 😝
Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social) reposted
Let's talk about Epstein. Tomorrow at 10:30am ET, Rep. Thomas Massie and I are holding a press conference with survivors of Epstein’s abuse. We have invited them to the steps of the People's House so all of America can finally hear their stories.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
In July, current EPA chief Lee Zeldin moved to revoke the “endangerment” finding that serves as the linchpin for U.S. #climate regulation under a 2007 Supreme Court decision. apnews.com/article/trum...
Scientific American (@sciam.bsky.social) reposted
The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably the change from department of Defense (DOD) to Department of War (DOW.) Something tells me that renaming an agency DOW doesn’t have good optics. 🤷♀️
FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) reposted
Host: Trump issued a new statement on crime in Chicago, with a new threat to have federal involvement. Chicago doesn't rank in the top 10 US cities in terms of violent crime rates. And there are a lot of cities in red states where Trump is not suggesting sending the National Guard
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Ask Mike Pence. 😂 it was always the Air Force Space Command, which operated as a major command in my book. One day it will be folded back in. People don’t want to relocate from Colorado
Jon-Christopher Bua (@jcbua.bsky.social) reposted
Seems Trump’s “America First” Is Becoming “America Alone”
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Stupid stupid move. Billions in infrastructure already IN Colorado AND expertise.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
So flipping political. Que, Tommy Telletubbie, Florida’s third Senator who actually LIVES in Santa Rosa Beach. 🙄
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump will announce Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision, an AP source says.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
The Trump admin was busted trying to whisk unaccompanied Guatemalan kids out of the US over Labor Day weekend. It was a replay of the March weekend when they secretly sent immigrants to El Salvador. But this time, Trump's #DOJ complied w/ court orders. #legal talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
SCO summit could challenge US dominance and lend weight to China’s vision of a multipolar world apnews.com/article/shan...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
😝
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
If they overturn the major lower court ruling on tariffs which was 7-4 and this ruling on Posse Comitatus Act then they will have to hang up their robes permanently. They have done enough to undermine checks & balances and congressional authority with their unitary executive BS exec overreach.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Ack! Hope not.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Huntsville would need new military construction as well as Colorado Springs Gipper. Just saying.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Air & Space Forces magazine in the press pool… this aft at 2 p.m. what’s up?
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Trumpski needs to STAND DOWN. 😂
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
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Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
🚨 BREAKING #NEWS A judge blocks the Trump administration from using military troops in immigration raids or law enforcement operations in #California, ruling the President's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law. #Legal
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
This is all outlined in #Project2025 #labor
The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) reposted
A legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump’s ambitions. @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports on the one anti-Trump resistance movement that’s actually working:
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
New Ukrainian Flamingo Cruise Missile Scores Hits on Russian Secret Service Base in Crimea. In a separate strike hitting the Kremlin-occupied peninsula, drones flown by operators from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) hit Russian air force helicopters at a nearby airfield.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣
S.V. Dáte (@svdate.bsky.social) reposted
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my. Carving the world up bit by bit. Who gets Venezuela? Exxon?
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
2 of 2/ Due to the long exposure time required for early photography-around 10 minutes-the bustling street appears empty, as most people moved too quickly to be captured.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
The oldest known #photograph of a person was captured in Paris, 1838 by Louis Daguerre, a French artist and photographer, who invented the daguerreotype process. The image was taken in Paris at the Boulevard du Temple, a busy street. Due to the long exposure time required… 1 of 2/ 🧵
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
It does explain the U.S. Steel deal, but the greediness and self centeredness of a self absorbed man like Trump putting himself on as a shadow board member for self enrichment is appalling.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It’s part of the Congressional Record now. September 3rd is when Susie Wiles and her spinmeisters will deflect with everything in their Wag the Dog playbook.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Take And secure Kaliningrad now.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
Why did the FBI under the Bush administration in 2008 allow #Epstein to keep trafficking girls while the feds were protecting him like a prized snitch? How deep is this rabbit hole? release the Epstein files.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
We have a traitor running our country who will do anything to block the #Epstein files including starting wars and attacking our own people on our own soil. Impeach this madman now. Follow the money. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
News conference with #Epstein ‘s victims will be 'explosive,' lawmaker predicts. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
Khanna and Massie to hold press conference with #Epstein victims Rep. Ro Khanna also told NBC that he is confident his discharge petition has the numbers to reach the finish line on the House floor. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
VICTIMS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND GHISLAINE MAXWELL will be speaking to the public at a press conference on Wednesday, Sept 3rd at 10:30 AM EST at the House Triangle in Washington, DC. They will be calling for legislation to force Trump to release the #Epstein files in full.
Taras Melnyk (@taras19921.bsky.social) reposted
Children’s shoes placed at the school entrance in memory of the 🇺🇦children killed by russia, who will never walk through those doors again. #russiaHitsCivilians #russiaIsATerroistState #russianWarCrimes Source: x.com/victoriaslog...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
#Ukraine Pursues a Weapons Buildup More Potent Than Any Security Guarantee. Kyiv sees a well-equipped army as a stronger deterrent to Moscow than any Western pledges to defend it. It is working to attract billions to buy more arms. No paywall 🎁 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Russian President Putin says he reached "understandings" with US President Trump over the end of the Ukraine war at their meeting in Alaska/But he did not say whether he would agree to peace talks with Zelensky brokered by Trump, who had apparently given Monday as a deadline for Putin's response.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
Am going back in my Time Machine to: June 14, 1946… then a quick jump back 9 months prior to that to Sept. 14, 1945 to Jamaica Estates, Queens. My assignment: To make sure Frederick Christ Trump Sr. wears a condom.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Was taught to never put bad Gris-Gris on anyone. Instead, to use it to protect and, in this case, it includes all of America which needs goodness & protection to ward off evil. Whatever harm befalls Trump is of his own making. Voodoo dolls are irrelevant to the religion, but are used to poke fun.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
😝
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Exxon is behind this. They’re working both ends against the middle - with Russia/Rosfnet to restore their arctic fields + also w/Venezuela to get their court award/reinforce their oil interests in Guyana. Our military is protecting their interests. What else is new? www.iar-gwu.org/print-archiv...
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (@chicago-cata.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Location has changed to Ida B Wells Dr and Michigan Ave! bsky.app/profile/chic...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It’s not enough to tick off all of Europe and Canada and Mexico - now he is out to alienate all of South America, which is no stranger to America imperialism. His version with Exxon and Chevron of the Roosevelt Corollary redux.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Trump keeps his base in an isolationist bubble reminiscent of the 1930s. We all know how that ended. He is not qualified to take the reins of the leadership of the free western world, he’s the pawn of a bankrupt gas station + Russia’s Putin. Everything he does benefits our enemies.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social)
As Congress convenes today, let them take in the following: Trump has been in hiding for a week, he’s actively attacking a beloved governor of Illinois (the “Lincoln” state) who is Jewish & founded a Holocaust museum + threatening to send military to occupy the 3rd largest city in America, Chicago.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Nothing but market manipulation. I hope to see Bessent and Crazy Eddie Lutnick in jail one day. And, Cantor Fitzgerald shut down for insider trading. Corrupt grifters. Last laugh.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
SSDD. So, we’re going to war over OIL again. ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas in offshore area under dispute by Guyana and #Venezuela www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
when they stop being funded by billionaires
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing but market manipulation. I hope to see Bessent and Crazy Eddie Lutnick in jail one day. And, Cantor Fitzgerald shut down for insider trading. Corrupt grifters. Last laugh.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
CHIPS act was a huge national security win for us to bring chip manufacturing stateside. Trump felon is bought off.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted
Is the National Guard, ICE coming to #Chicago? Latest updates www.nbcchicago.com/video/local/...
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not enough to tick off all of Europe and Canada and Mexico - now he is out to alienate all of South America, which is no stranger to America imperialism. His version with Exxon and Chevron of the Roosevelt Corollary redux.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
A country with governance/leadership that not only evokes war on its own people — but wages war on others at the same time — will not last very long. This is crazy town stuff.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
The tariffs are illegal. No one has to honor them really.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh dear. I have a ham radio with a faraday cage. Or I could just strap one of these on my back to broadcast.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
At least some folks get my dry humor 😉
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
He is having a presser at 2 p.m. - that’s after the Epstein presser at 11 a.m. It’s war of the pressers tomorrow. This vacuous regime lives for press release governance to try to control and dominate the news cycle.
Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Honestly, Europe should have waited it out. China has. The tariffs are illegal and in the courts now.
John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
13/ The US uses also Paragon's tech at their counterintelligence peril. Past analyses by the US highlighted how foreign spyware acquisition introduce national security & counterintelligence downsides when the company's technology is developed by foreign companies & foreign gov adjacent individuals.