Robert Maguire
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Robert Maguire
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· Feb 16
"I am preparing this declaration to ensure that the Court is aware of the imminent risk that twelve years’ of critical CFPB records, which belong to the public, will be irretrievably lost and cause serious and sweeping damage unless the Court takes action."
CFPB's former chief technologist issues an urgent warning to the court that several years' worth of sensitive data is about to be destroyed, with damaging consequences
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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So glad we got rid of DEI and brought back the MERITOCRACY! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So glad we got rid of DEI and brought back the MERITOCRACY! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Top Trump administration officials told prosecutors early this year that tax investigations were not a priority... Participants concluded that the department’s new management was “very skeptical about white-collar crime and whether we should be doing those cases."
Exclusive: Tax prosecutions plunge as Trump shifts crime-fighting efforts
Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue thos...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Top Trump administration officials told prosecutors early this year that tax investigations were not a priority... Participants concluded that the department’s new management was “very skeptical about white-collar crime and whether we should be doing those cases."
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
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They contribute a lot more to this country than he does
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
They contribute a lot more to this country than he does
What if he just.....paid more taxes?
Michael Dell Gives $6.25 Billion to Launch ‘Trump Accounts’ for 25 Million Kids
In an unprecedented philanthropic gift, Michael and Susan Dell will give 25 million American children $250 each to jumpstart an investment account for their futures.
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What if he just.....paid more taxes?
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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President Trump has clearly abused interim appointments of US Attorneys to put loyalists in place who will, among other things, follow his instructions to investigate and prosecute perceived enemies. So today's decision to dismiss the Comey and James cases on those grounds is welcome. 🧵
Judge tosses cases against Comey and James, rules prosecutor appointment unlawful
The decision disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney sets back President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Justice Department to target perceived rivals.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
President Trump has clearly abused interim appointments of US Attorneys to put loyalists in place who will, among other things, follow his instructions to investigate and prosecute perceived enemies. So today's decision to dismiss the Comey and James cases on those grounds is welcome. 🧵
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Well I’m glad he apologized for… continuing to e-mail Epstein. Because that’s what people had a problem with.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Well I’m glad he apologized for… continuing to e-mail Epstein. Because that’s what people had a problem with.
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"He said good things about me."
Q: Tucker had a friendly interview w/ antisemite Nick Fuentes. What role do you think Carlson should play in the GOP?
TRUMP: I've found him to be good. He's said good things about me. Will you let me finish my statement? You're the worst. You're with Bloomberg, right? I don't know why they have you
TRUMP: I've found him to be good. He's said good things about me. Will you let me finish my statement? You're the worst. You're with Bloomberg, right? I don't know why they have you
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"He said good things about me."
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Roman helmet guy is the Hiroo Onoda of the Roman Empire
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Roman helmet guy is the Hiroo Onoda of the Roman Empire
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
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Fact-check: true 😕
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Fact-check: true 😕
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
Epstein apparently got higher than anyone has ever been and wrote himself an email of all the cool shit he thought up
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Epstein apparently got higher than anyone has ever been and wrote himself an email of all the cool shit he thought up
This is a contender for the dumbest thing I've read in 2025
Opinion | Shocked by Trump’s profiteering? Here’s some perspective.
There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a contender for the dumbest thing I've read in 2025
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Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.
Prometheus - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/8FBbLN
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
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Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
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Trump got a Covid vaccine today.
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trump got a Covid vaccine today.
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I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.