Tirah Att
@tirahatt.bsky.social
Retired attorney; political junkie; theater lover
Live in NYC
Live in NYC
Clown Show -
The gov requested a stay of a magistrate's order requiring it to turh over grand jury materials to Comey because of prosecutorial mistakes. While the judge granted the order (albeit a shorter one than requested by the gov), the gov's motion contained a typo in the HEADING.
The gov requested a stay of a magistrate's order requiring it to turh over grand jury materials to Comey because of prosecutorial mistakes. While the judge granted the order (albeit a shorter one than requested by the gov), the gov's motion contained a typo in the HEADING.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Clown Show -
The gov requested a stay of a magistrate's order requiring it to turh over grand jury materials to Comey because of prosecutorial mistakes. While the judge granted the order (albeit a shorter one than requested by the gov), the gov's motion contained a typo in the HEADING.
The gov requested a stay of a magistrate's order requiring it to turh over grand jury materials to Comey because of prosecutorial mistakes. While the judge granted the order (albeit a shorter one than requested by the gov), the gov's motion contained a typo in the HEADING.
In July, Trump said the ballroom construction wouldn't interfere with the current building and that it would be near it but not touching it.
Here is a picture of his view of non-interference taken today.
Here is a picture of his view of non-interference taken today.
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In July, Trump said the ballroom construction wouldn't interfere with the current building and that it would be near it but not touching it.
Here is a picture of his view of non-interference taken today.
Here is a picture of his view of non-interference taken today.
Of the 9 schools sent Trump's coercive "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," 7 have rejected it.
Shout out to UPenn, MIT, USC, Brown, Dartmouth, UArizona and UVA.
And boo to Vanderbilt which waffled a bit & U Texas Austin which seems open to it but hasn't responded formally.
Shout out to UPenn, MIT, USC, Brown, Dartmouth, UArizona and UVA.
And boo to Vanderbilt which waffled a bit & U Texas Austin which seems open to it but hasn't responded formally.
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Of the 9 schools sent Trump's coercive "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," 7 have rejected it.
Shout out to UPenn, MIT, USC, Brown, Dartmouth, UArizona and UVA.
And boo to Vanderbilt which waffled a bit & U Texas Austin which seems open to it but hasn't responded formally.
Shout out to UPenn, MIT, USC, Brown, Dartmouth, UArizona and UVA.
And boo to Vanderbilt which waffled a bit & U Texas Austin which seems open to it but hasn't responded formally.
Remember this name -Will Scharf.
He’s the WH staff secretary & head of the Nat’l Capital Planning Commission who okayed the demolition going on NOW at the WH saying the board doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition or site prep work for buildings on fed land.
It’s awful.
He’s the WH staff secretary & head of the Nat’l Capital Planning Commission who okayed the demolition going on NOW at the WH saying the board doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition or site prep work for buildings on fed land.
It’s awful.
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Remember this name -Will Scharf.
He’s the WH staff secretary & head of the Nat’l Capital Planning Commission who okayed the demolition going on NOW at the WH saying the board doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition or site prep work for buildings on fed land.
It’s awful.
He’s the WH staff secretary & head of the Nat’l Capital Planning Commission who okayed the demolition going on NOW at the WH saying the board doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition or site prep work for buildings on fed land.
It’s awful.
MIT is the first university to reject signing on to Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence, stating “scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”
Let’s hope other universities follow suit.
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regard…
Let’s hope other universities follow suit.
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regard…
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regard…
October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
MIT is the first university to reject signing on to Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence, stating “scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”
Let’s hope other universities follow suit.
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regard…
Let’s hope other universities follow suit.
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regard…
Huh??
Giuliani spokesman claimed Rudy was flagged down by a domestic violence victim while in NH and "rendered assistance."
But the victim was in the southbound lanes and he was going north. So she flagged down a car going the other way on a major highway? And did he leap over four lanes to help?
Giuliani spokesman claimed Rudy was flagged down by a domestic violence victim while in NH and "rendered assistance."
But the victim was in the southbound lanes and he was going north. So she flagged down a car going the other way on a major highway? And did he leap over four lanes to help?
September 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Huh??
Giuliani spokesman claimed Rudy was flagged down by a domestic violence victim while in NH and "rendered assistance."
But the victim was in the southbound lanes and he was going north. So she flagged down a car going the other way on a major highway? And did he leap over four lanes to help?
Giuliani spokesman claimed Rudy was flagged down by a domestic violence victim while in NH and "rendered assistance."
But the victim was in the southbound lanes and he was going north. So she flagged down a car going the other way on a major highway? And did he leap over four lanes to help?
Our new acting CDC head at 8:40 below-"In a free market, recipients of life-saving organ transplants would be allowed to compensate their donors." Because there are "plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around unused."
What could possibly go wrong with that idea?
vimeo.com/8086466
What could possibly go wrong with that idea?
vimeo.com/8086466
Jim O'Neill - The Seasteading Institute Conference 2009
Health Innovation at the Frontier: a 30-minute talk and discussion laying the foundations of libertarian and free-market economic thinking interpreted for seasteading…
vimeo.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Our new acting CDC head at 8:40 below-"In a free market, recipients of life-saving organ transplants would be allowed to compensate their donors." Because there are "plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around unused."
What could possibly go wrong with that idea?
vimeo.com/8086466
What could possibly go wrong with that idea?
vimeo.com/8086466
UGH
Trump criticized US museums for talking about how bad slavery was & not emphasizing "Brightness."
In his outrageous attempts to rewrite history, how will he "brighten up" a museum like the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture? Talk about how pretty plantations were?
Trump criticized US museums for talking about how bad slavery was & not emphasizing "Brightness."
In his outrageous attempts to rewrite history, how will he "brighten up" a museum like the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture? Talk about how pretty plantations were?
August 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
UGH
Trump criticized US museums for talking about how bad slavery was & not emphasizing "Brightness."
In his outrageous attempts to rewrite history, how will he "brighten up" a museum like the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture? Talk about how pretty plantations were?
Trump criticized US museums for talking about how bad slavery was & not emphasizing "Brightness."
In his outrageous attempts to rewrite history, how will he "brighten up" a museum like the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture? Talk about how pretty plantations were?
Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, has asked the SC, in a cert petition, to overturn Obergefell, the decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
My prediction - the SC either won't take the case or will not rule on Obergefell.
My prediction - the SC either won't take the case or will not rule on Obergefell.
August 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, has asked the SC, in a cert petition, to overturn Obergefell, the decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
My prediction - the SC either won't take the case or will not rule on Obergefell.
My prediction - the SC either won't take the case or will not rule on Obergefell.
Here's a statement signed by William Beach, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics under the first Trump administration, criticizing Trump's firing of the current Commissioner.
Trump's next Truth Social Post will probably say Mr. Beach was a failure and a loser.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Trump's next Truth Social Post will probably say Mr. Beach was a failure and a loser.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Statement on Commissioner McEntarfer’s Removal — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Today, President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning. He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting ...
www.friendsofbls.org
August 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here's a statement signed by William Beach, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics under the first Trump administration, criticizing Trump's firing of the current Commissioner.
Trump's next Truth Social Post will probably say Mr. Beach was a failure and a loser.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Trump's next Truth Social Post will probably say Mr. Beach was a failure and a loser.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
And of course Trump just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the jobs numbers- pathetic, weak move by a baby who can’t accept the truth.
August 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And of course Trump just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the jobs numbers- pathetic, weak move by a baby who can’t accept the truth.
Part of a quid pro quo? And if so, what else might be next?
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a low security prison to a minimum security prison (the least restrictive category).
www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a low security prison to a minimum security prison (the least restrictive category).
www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to federal prison camp in Texas | CNN Politics
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida, has been moved to a lower-security federal prison camp in Texas.
www.cnn.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Part of a quid pro quo? And if so, what else might be next?
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a low security prison to a minimum security prison (the least restrictive category).
www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a low security prison to a minimum security prison (the least restrictive category).
www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...
OMG
I can't wait to see the actions Trump takes against South Park and his inevitable Truth Social post - this is savage.
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I can't wait to see the actions Trump takes against South Park and his inevitable Truth Social post - this is savage.
x.com/cmclymer/sta...
July 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
OMG
I can't wait to see the actions Trump takes against South Park and his inevitable Truth Social post - this is savage.
x.com/cmclymer/sta...
I can't wait to see the actions Trump takes against South Park and his inevitable Truth Social post - this is savage.
x.com/cmclymer/sta...
Columbia caves (and lets the Trump administration basically take $200 million in already allocated funding away from it).
It didn't go well for the law firms that caved - unclear whether Columbia will regret this.
www.chronicle.com/article/in-e...
It didn't go well for the law firms that caved - unclear whether Columbia will regret this.
www.chronicle.com/article/in-e...
In Extraordinary Deal With Trump, Columbia U. Agrees to Pay $200 Million to Restore Funds
The university said the government would resolve its investigations and restore most of the $400 million in research funding it had stripped from the institution.
www.chronicle.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Columbia caves (and lets the Trump administration basically take $200 million in already allocated funding away from it).
It didn't go well for the law firms that caved - unclear whether Columbia will regret this.
www.chronicle.com/article/in-e...
It didn't go well for the law firms that caved - unclear whether Columbia will regret this.
www.chronicle.com/article/in-e...
The SC has just allowed the Trump administration to lay off 1400 employees at the Department of Education by continuing a stay of a lower court order that had barred the administration from carrying out the plan.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Supreme Court order on Dept of Education
US Supreme Court
www.documentcloud.org
July 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The SC has just allowed the Trump administration to lay off 1400 employees at the Department of Education by continuing a stay of a lower court order that had barred the administration from carrying out the plan.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Pam Bondi just fired the DOJ's top ethics advisor with no reason given- I wonder why?🤨
Read his LinkedIn post about his service.
Read his LinkedIn post about his service.
July 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Pam Bondi just fired the DOJ's top ethics advisor with no reason given- I wonder why?🤨
Read his LinkedIn post about his service.
Read his LinkedIn post about his service.
Where the heck is the head of FEMA?? He not only hasn't gone to the site of the flooding in Texas, but he hasn't issued any statements on the awful and tragic disaster.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
FEMA leader hasn’t been seen in over a week sparking concern
David Richardson has made no public appearances or statements following his appointment on May 8
www.the-independent.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Where the heck is the head of FEMA?? He not only hasn't gone to the site of the flooding in Texas, but he hasn't issued any statements on the awful and tragic disaster.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
The lunatic-in chief announces massive tariffs on copper. Since we can't develop new mines or restart old ones quickly, this will raise prices, disrupt supply chains and increase costs for consumers and industries.
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The lunatic-in chief announces massive tariffs on copper. Since we can't develop new mines or restart old ones quickly, this will raise prices, disrupt supply chains and increase costs for consumers and industries.
A coalition of public health organizations and doctors' groups have sued the Trump administration in a MA district court over its decision not to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for pregnant women and children.
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/File...
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/File...
July 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A coalition of public health organizations and doctors' groups have sued the Trump administration in a MA district court over its decision not to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for pregnant women and children.
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/File...
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/File...
Happy 4th of July from NYC!
July 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Happy 4th of July from NYC!
President "I am totally against antisemitism" apparently thinks it's fine to use an antisemitic trope like "Shylocks."
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x.com/esjesjesj/st...
evan loves worf on X: "He’s busting out the 40s antisemitism" / X
He’s busting out the 40s antisemitism
x.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
President "I am totally against antisemitism" apparently thinks it's fine to use an antisemitic trope like "Shylocks."
x.com/esjesjesj/st...
x.com/esjesjesj/st...
It's TACO time again.
Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s July 8/9 deadlines for restarting tariffs are “not critical" and could be extended.
Then she said if countries didn't negotiate, Trump could just unilaterally decide on a deal - in other words, he'll just say there's a deal.
Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s July 8/9 deadlines for restarting tariffs are “not critical" and could be extended.
Then she said if countries didn't negotiate, Trump could just unilaterally decide on a deal - in other words, he'll just say there's a deal.
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's TACO time again.
Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s July 8/9 deadlines for restarting tariffs are “not critical" and could be extended.
Then she said if countries didn't negotiate, Trump could just unilaterally decide on a deal - in other words, he'll just say there's a deal.
Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s July 8/9 deadlines for restarting tariffs are “not critical" and could be extended.
Then she said if countries didn't negotiate, Trump could just unilaterally decide on a deal - in other words, he'll just say there's a deal.
Mike Lindell was just found guilty of defaming Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee, and ordered to pay him about $2 million in damages.
I doubt Lindell has that kind of money anymore though.
apnews.com/article/mike...
I doubt Lindell has that kind of money anymore though.
apnews.com/article/mike...
Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company
A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company.
apnews.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mike Lindell was just found guilty of defaming Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee, and ordered to pay him about $2 million in damages.
I doubt Lindell has that kind of money anymore though.
apnews.com/article/mike...
I doubt Lindell has that kind of money anymore though.
apnews.com/article/mike...
