Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
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I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
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If Trump weren't the "world's greatest real estate developer", one could let this slide. But in Chicago, it was never called the "Miracle Mile", and it was never, or ever called, a"Shopping Center".
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
If Trump weren't the "world's greatest real estate developer", one could let this slide. But in Chicago, it was never called the "Miracle Mile", and it was never, or ever called, a"Shopping Center".
53 days – that is the record for the longest time the House has gone without meeting in regular session in the 21st Century, set by the House of the 113th Congress when it adjourned under Art I, Sec 5, cl 4 from Sep 20-Nov 10, 2014.*
The current House will break that record on Wed. 🥳
#HRules
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The current House will break that record on Wed. 🥳
#HRules
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November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
53 days – that is the record for the longest time the House has gone without meeting in regular session in the 21st Century, set by the House of the 113th Congress when it adjourned under Art I, Sec 5, cl 4 from Sep 20-Nov 10, 2014.*
The current House will break that record on Wed. 🥳
#HRules
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The current House will break that record on Wed. 🥳
#HRules
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Last House vote was Sept. 19
Last House hearing was Sept. 18
Last House vote on a yearly funding bill was Sept. 4
Last House hearing was Sept. 18
Last House vote on a yearly funding bill was Sept. 4
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Last House vote was Sept. 19
Last House hearing was Sept. 18
Last House vote on a yearly funding bill was Sept. 4
Last House hearing was Sept. 18
Last House vote on a yearly funding bill was Sept. 4
We know when resolutions, concurrent resolutions, motions & amendments are approved, they're "agreed to" or "adopted"; they're not "passed". Bills & joint resolutions are "passed".
Now if anyone is thinking, "Okay, but how are unanimous consent agreements approved?"
Well, not like this ⬇️. 🤦🏻♂️
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Now if anyone is thinking, "Okay, but how are unanimous consent agreements approved?"
Well, not like this ⬇️. 🤦🏻♂️
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![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
NLRB v Canning
(June 26, 2014)
JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.
Ordinarily the President must obtain “the Advice and
Consent of the Senate” before appointing an “Office[r] of
the United States.” U. S. Const., Art. II, §2, cl. 2. But the
Recess Appointments Clause creates an exception. It
gives the President alone the power “to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by
granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of
their next Session.” Art. II, §2, cl. 3. We here consider
three questions about the application of this Clause.
[snip]
Second, the Senate’s rules make clear that during its
pro forma sessions, despite its resolution that it would
conduct no business, the Senate retained the power to
conduct business. During any pro forma session, the
Senate could have conducted business simply by passing a
unanimous consent agreement. See Riddick’s 1313. The
Senate in fact conducts much of its business through
unanimous consent. Id., at 1311–1312. Senate rules
presume that a quorum is present unless a present Senator questions it. Id., at 1041–1042. And when the Senate
has a quorum, an agreement is unanimously passed if,
upon its proposal, no present Senator objects. Id., at
1329–1330. It is consequently unsurprising that the
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We know when resolutions, concurrent resolutions, motions & amendments are approved, they're "agreed to" or "adopted"; they're not "passed". Bills & joint resolutions are "passed".
Now if anyone is thinking, "Okay, but how are unanimous consent agreements approved?"
Well, not like this ⬇️. 🤦🏻♂️
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Now if anyone is thinking, "Okay, but how are unanimous consent agreements approved?"
Well, not like this ⬇️. 🤦🏻♂️
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"Critics need to understand how the Senate works."
"How does it work?"
"It doesn't."
"But… but then how can critics understand how it works?"
"It doesn't work is how it works."
"How does it work?"
"It doesn't."
"But… but then how can critics understand how it works?"
"It doesn't work is how it works."
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"Critics need to understand how the Senate works."
"How does it work?"
"It doesn't."
"But… but then how can critics understand how it works?"
"It doesn't work is how it works."
"How does it work?"
"It doesn't."
"But… but then how can critics understand how it works?"
"It doesn't work is how it works."
HOT TAKE: If this ends with the Senate passing a CR that is NOT the House-passed CR, Dems should claim *victory*: "We have a lot more to do, but we WON this round. They blinked. Speaker Johnson sent us a terrible bill, said we had to take it, and then he and his House Republicans did what?
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3 GOOD: some real approps working right for the first time in EONS, built based on need & politics, not from toplines. SHALL language on backpay 4 feds. Good anti-RIF language we’d want to see continued
2 BAD: Nothing forces Trump to actually FOLLOW the approps. A vote we could have forced already
2 BAD: Nothing forces Trump to actually FOLLOW the approps. A vote we could have forced already
Text of the CR here. Negative implications galore.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
HOT TAKE: If this ends with the Senate passing a CR that is NOT the House-passed CR, Dems should claim *victory*: "We have a lot more to do, but we WON this round. They blinked. Speaker Johnson sent us a terrible bill, said we had to take it, and then he and his House Republicans did what?
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Say whatever about Schumer, but this is the Donald Trump he's dealing with.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Say whatever about Schumer, but this is the Donald Trump he's dealing with.
Say whatever about Schumer, but this is the Donald Trump he's dealing with.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Say whatever about Schumer, but this is the Donald Trump he's dealing with.
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he appeared to close his eyes in what appeared to be a chair in what appeared to be the Oval Office during what appeared to be announcement that appeared to occur this week
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
he appeared to close his eyes in what appeared to be a chair in what appeared to be the Oval Office during what appeared to be announcement that appeared to occur this week
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State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
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Does everyone know this?
This reminds me that there's a basketball court on the fifth floor of the US Supreme Court building that is popularly known as "the highest court in the land"
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does everyone know this?
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House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.
All the pixels, and I assure you absolutely no ritual sacrifices going on inside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886
#photography
All the pixels, and I assure you absolutely no ritual sacrifices going on inside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886
#photography
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.
All the pixels, and I assure you absolutely no ritual sacrifices going on inside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886
#photography
All the pixels, and I assure you absolutely no ritual sacrifices going on inside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886
#photography
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
Nov. 9, 1925: The divorce trial of white millionaire's son Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander and his biracial wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander, opens in White Plains, N.Y. The husband claims he was tricked into thinking she was white when they eloped last year. 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: The divorce trial of white millionaire's son Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander and his biracial wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander, opens in White Plains, N.Y. The husband claims he was tricked into thinking she was white when they eloped last year. 1/2
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Tomorrow: Alice Rhinelander presents her case.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Tomorrow: Alice Rhinelander presents her case.
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A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"What are the asterisks for?"
"Sine die adjournment."
"Someone died, what?"
Sunday session of the Senate –
#SRules www.senate.gov/legislative/...
"Sine die adjournment."
"Someone died, what?"
Sunday session of the Senate –
#SRules www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"What are the asterisks for?"
"Sine die adjournment."
"Someone died, what?"
Sunday session of the Senate –
#SRules www.senate.gov/legislative/...
"Sine die adjournment."
"Someone died, what?"
Sunday session of the Senate –
#SRules www.senate.gov/legislative/...
After Sen Mullin tweeted some photos on Sat, I asked my local AI machine if it could make out the text on the Truth Social post printouts seen lying about… and, if so, compare them to what Trump's already posted to determine (A) if these have been posted, or (B) if they're drafts.
Its answer: B
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Its answer: B
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![AI OCR of what appear to be printouts lying on Trump's desk of his posts on Truth Social, but on closer look seem likely to be drafts for him to approve/edit that are formatted as posts.
Top-left printout (angled toward the camera):
"The Radical Left Democrats want to DESTROY our Country with Open Borders and Crime, but we are FIGHTING BACK like never before! The Wall is being BUILT, and the Drugs are being STOPPED. BIG RESULTS COMING SOON!"
Center printout (partially under a folder):
"Fake News CNN is at it again with their LIES about the Economy. Inflation is DOWN, Jobs are UP, and America is WINNING. The Failing New York Times said the same garbage in 2017—WRONG THEN, WRONG NOW!"
Bottom-right printout (near the edge of the desk):
"Just had a GREAT call with [redacted name, likely a foreign leader]. They LOVE what we're doing on Trade. China is PAYING the Price for their Bad Behavior. No more being RIPPED OFF!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf6x4tcxia23iqiflhqtv2dg/bafkreiafif7geqgbm3nh3pnltoset2h7anwkkgswkp5mrm6geevw4pj65i@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
After Sen Mullin tweeted some photos on Sat, I asked my local AI machine if it could make out the text on the Truth Social post printouts seen lying about… and, if so, compare them to what Trump's already posted to determine (A) if these have been posted, or (B) if they're drafts.
Its answer: B
🫣
Its answer: B
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NY POST: Things took a bad turn recently between actor Jeremy Renner and Chinese filmmaker Yi Zhou after the pair had made two films together, as well as dating for some months.
Hate to see that happen. I wonder how they met, one of those "meet cute" stories? 🤔
About Renner, "Zhou claimed…
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Hate to see that happen. I wonder how they met, one of those "meet cute" stories? 🤔
About Renner, "Zhou claimed…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
NY POST: Things took a bad turn recently between actor Jeremy Renner and Chinese filmmaker Yi Zhou after the pair had made two films together, as well as dating for some months.
Hate to see that happen. I wonder how they met, one of those "meet cute" stories? 🤔
About Renner, "Zhou claimed…
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Hate to see that happen. I wonder how they met, one of those "meet cute" stories? 🤔
About Renner, "Zhou claimed…
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Reposted by Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
More Donald Trump SOP: A bunch of people do a lot of work to get something done, and then at the end if Trump is so generous to not get in the f*****g way to block it, he says he made it all possible.
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
More Donald Trump SOP: A bunch of people do a lot of work to get something done, and then at the end if Trump is so generous to not get in the f*****g way to block it, he says he made it all possible.
#Innumeracy, again.
C) Now, even if you pretend Walmart's 2025 package is not smaller (and a couple items ~downgraded), 2025's does NOT cost 25% less than 2024's. Rather – and again, only if you pretend 2025's is the same as 2024's – 2025's is 20% less.*
* – $40 is 20% < $50 (even though $50 is 25% > $40) 😀👍
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* – $40 is 20% < $50 (even though $50 is 25% > $40) 😀👍
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November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#Innumeracy, again.
Reposted by Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
There's been a lot of crowing that the House has "done its job" by passing a bill, but the job is actually making law, not passing one-chamber bills. The word Congress means "come together" in Latin. Congress is failing to Congress.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There's been a lot of crowing that the House has "done its job" by passing a bill, but the job is actually making law, not passing one-chamber bills. The word Congress means "come together" in Latin. Congress is failing to Congress.
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Carolyn June Dennis, 1944-2025
“There is no perfection on the physical plane.”
This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵
“There is no perfection on the physical plane.”
This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Carolyn June Dennis, 1944-2025
“There is no perfection on the physical plane.”
This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵
“There is no perfection on the physical plane.”
This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵
"Well, President Trump [is] very anxious to get this done, and it's got to go through the courts. The courts keep jamming up things." – Treasury Secretary SCOTT BESSENT, on CNN just this past Sunday, assuring us of Trump's eagerness to get SNAP benefits paid.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"Well, President Trump [is] very anxious to get this done, and it's got to go through the courts. The courts keep jamming up things." – Treasury Secretary SCOTT BESSENT, on CNN just this past Sunday, assuring us of Trump's eagerness to get SNAP benefits paid.
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