@thatpuffin.bsky.social
Central Texan, joined here after No Kings. Vacillatin wildly between despair & hope. Here to learn. Defend the Constitution - it ain’t gonna uphold itself, y’all.
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Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
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PI granted.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PI granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
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NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
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More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful
Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
I ain’t wanna bring nobody down.
I do get to feelin despair, thinkin on certain historical precedents. Secular constitutional Iran less’n 100 years ago gettin reduced to this God damn travesty is a big one.
I do get to feelin despair, thinkin on certain historical precedents. Secular constitutional Iran less’n 100 years ago gettin reduced to this God damn travesty is a big one.
The 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman Condemned to Death After a 10-Minute Trial...Over A Piece of Fabric
#Iran #IranHumanRights #ZahraShahbazTabari
eaworldview.com/2025/11/iran...
#Iran #IranHumanRights #ZahraShahbazTabari
eaworldview.com/2025/11/iran...
The 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman Condemned to Death After a 10-Minute Trial...Over A Piece of Fabric - EA WorldView
Iranian authorities sentence to death Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, 67, a retired electrical engineer, over a piece of fabric after 10-minute trial.
eaworldview.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I ain’t wanna bring nobody down.
I do get to feelin despair, thinkin on certain historical precedents. Secular constitutional Iran less’n 100 years ago gettin reduced to this God damn travesty is a big one.
I do get to feelin despair, thinkin on certain historical precedents. Secular constitutional Iran less’n 100 years ago gettin reduced to this God damn travesty is a big one.
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So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
This ain’t hyperbole. This the game plan. Ten years ago I’da thought it was a bad B movie.
Lotsa people still lookin around like, who’s gone step up & stop this? Lotsa people thinkin they can hunker down until 2026. Panic ain’t productive, but hell if I know what to do.
Lotsa people still lookin around like, who’s gone step up & stop this? Lotsa people thinkin they can hunker down until 2026. Panic ain’t productive, but hell if I know what to do.
The question isn’t whether Trump invades Venezuela.
The question is whether he uses Venezuela...to invade us.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
The question is whether he uses Venezuela...to invade us.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This ain’t hyperbole. This the game plan. Ten years ago I’da thought it was a bad B movie.
Lotsa people still lookin around like, who’s gone step up & stop this? Lotsa people thinkin they can hunker down until 2026. Panic ain’t productive, but hell if I know what to do.
Lotsa people still lookin around like, who’s gone step up & stop this? Lotsa people thinkin they can hunker down until 2026. Panic ain’t productive, but hell if I know what to do.
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Our assessment warned of this pattern: delegitimize investigators, glorify offenders, and erode trust in law enforcement until loyalty replaces the law.
Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Our assessment warned of this pattern: delegitimize investigators, glorify offenders, and erode trust in law enforcement until loyalty replaces the law.
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What Has Been Done to America? What’s done in a short period will take a long time to undo open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... The path will be long, but one has to hope that the strength of American institutions and the determination of its people will ensure restoration of the democratic norms.
What Has Been Done to America? What’s done in a short period will take a long time to undo
The Steady State | by Charles A. Ray
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
What Has Been Done to America? What’s done in a short period will take a long time to undo open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... The path will be long, but one has to hope that the strength of American institutions and the determination of its people will ensure restoration of the democratic norms.
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I’m convinced that they do these sporadic public displays just to signify that they finally have the meritocracy they have dreamt of which is one in which the most decorated and qualified woman can have her career derailed at the whims of the most mediocre and unqualified man.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’m convinced that they do these sporadic public displays just to signify that they finally have the meritocracy they have dreamt of which is one in which the most decorated and qualified woman can have her career derailed at the whims of the most mediocre and unqualified man.
This a damn good point. Public education been a target since way back when.
Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This a damn good point. Public education been a target since way back when.
How the hell ain’t this the headline on every network, every newspaper. I ain’t got words for this.
It ain’t politics as usual, it’s a God damn horror.
It ain’t politics as usual, it’s a God damn horror.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
How the hell ain’t this the headline on every network, every newspaper. I ain’t got words for this.
It ain’t politics as usual, it’s a God damn horror.
It ain’t politics as usual, it’s a God damn horror.
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In our assessment, we discuss the Administration’s efforts to control information in an attempt to redefine what is knowable and who is permitted to speak with authority. These legislators are fighting back trying to preserve an accurate accounting of history.
www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...
www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...
State legislators maneuver to preserve history of U.S. Capitol riot
While GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration have downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, there are state efforts underway to ensure it's recorded for history.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In our assessment, we discuss the Administration’s efforts to control information in an attempt to redefine what is knowable and who is permitted to speak with authority. These legislators are fighting back trying to preserve an accurate accounting of history.
www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...
www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...
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🧵Did you hear?
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🧵Did you hear?
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
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When the Purse and the Sword Collide: The President, “Available Funds,” and the Law open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Members of Congress should be furious that the executive branch is attempting to usurp one of their most important powers and functions
When the Purse and the Sword Collide: The President, “Available Funds,” and the Law
The Steady State | The Steady State
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When the Purse and the Sword Collide: The President, “Available Funds,” and the Law open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Members of Congress should be furious that the executive branch is attempting to usurp one of their most important powers and functions
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Seems @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn are hiding behind leader Thune, claiming he’s the one who snuck in a provision letting them sue the government for $500,000 for investigating their possible role in Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government. 🤔 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Seems @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn are hiding behind leader Thune, claiming he’s the one who snuck in a provision letting them sue the government for $500,000 for investigating their possible role in Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government. 🤔 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Shockingly, this doesn’t seem to be true. www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
Trump claims big jump in VA trust scores, but data shows modest gains
Patient satisfaction rates have improved steadily at VA in recent years, but Trump insists his changes have reformed the entire department.
www.militarytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Shockingly, this doesn’t seem to be true. www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
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Executive overreach doesn’t just test our Constitution. It undermines alliances. The U.K. halted intel sharing about suspected drug trafficking vessels after it saw U.S. military strikes as illegal. When the executive operates without transparent legal or congressional review, trust erodes abroad.
UK stops sharing some intel with US over concerns about legality of US military strikes on alleged drug boats, sources tell CNN. https://cnn.it/47VvbVi
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Executive overreach doesn’t just test our Constitution. It undermines alliances. The U.K. halted intel sharing about suspected drug trafficking vessels after it saw U.S. military strikes as illegal. When the executive operates without transparent legal or congressional review, trust erodes abroad.
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Our reporting has shown that recent policy changes at the VA are having an impact on working conditions and on patient care, but we need your help to understand the full picture.
If you recently left the VA, here’s how you can reach us:
If you recently left the VA, here’s how you can reach us:
Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs?
ProPublica wants to hear from doctors, nurses and other front-line medical providers who recently left positions at a VA hospital or clinic.
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Our reporting has shown that recent policy changes at the VA are having an impact on working conditions and on patient care, but we need your help to understand the full picture.
If you recently left the VA, here’s how you can reach us:
If you recently left the VA, here’s how you can reach us:
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Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.