David Clement
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(one comment because people can be stupid: the United States are the Germans here, we as a nation are the Nazis, and that is fucking sickening)
February 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
(one comment because people can be stupid: the United States are the Germans here, we as a nation are the Nazis, and that is fucking sickening)
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👇 "Follow the law."
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
👇 "Follow the law."
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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”
![Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
Page 2
Of The Federal Government. These actions and the underlying case have also improperly interfered with Mayor Adams' campaign in the 2025 mayoral election. See Justice Manual § 9-
85.500, entitled Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election.
Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement," as described in Executive Order 14165.' Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death."? Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.
' Your Office correctly noted in a February 3, 2025 memorandum, *as Mr. Bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting [on January 31, 2025], the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement."
2 According to an October 2024 Wall Street Journal article, Bout has already started to participate in arms deals again, including negotiations with representatives of Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidtbdebawe7yluohx6ktbosdjqfdcf7ukryaemdjtgcpygzklaefe@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
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Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
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Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
Barthel Gilles, "Ruhrkampf." The Kapp Putsch of 1920 was defeated by ordinary Germans who mobilized for democracy. The lives lost in the Ruhr weren't lost for nothing; representative government survived for another twelve years, until the second year of the Great Depression.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Barthel Gilles, "Ruhrkampf." The Kapp Putsch of 1920 was defeated by ordinary Germans who mobilized for democracy. The lives lost in the Ruhr weren't lost for nothing; representative government survived for another twelve years, until the second year of the Great Depression.
Of course it’s a coup
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Of course it’s a coup
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
What is happening beggars belief, but it's happening.
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What is happening beggars belief, but it's happening.
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
A gorgeous print by Fumiaki Fukita.
This is something different in a Japanese woodblock. Fumiaki Fukita (b.1926) was head of the Printmaking Department at Tama Art University for many years. His work (using hard woods) has a distinctly modern look. It's title is:Poem Collection in the Morning (Theodor Schelwe Collection at auction).
February 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A gorgeous print by Fumiaki Fukita.
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Hey remember when George Lucas was like “hurr durr Trade Wars” and we were like that’s so silly and he was like no wait that’s how Emperor Palpatine comes to power and we were like you are obviously dumb Jorge.
February 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Hey remember when George Lucas was like “hurr durr Trade Wars” and we were like that’s so silly and he was like no wait that’s how Emperor Palpatine comes to power and we were like you are obviously dumb Jorge.
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How long, O Lord, must we suffer the perfidious Boer?
February 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
How long, O Lord, must we suffer the perfidious Boer?
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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May just buy a bunch of these books and give them to some of the students in my civil rights class lol
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February 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
May just buy a bunch of these books and give them to some of the students in my civil rights class lol
Excerpt: "If only we had a body, with democratic legitimacy and powers conferred by a Constitution, that could overrule a president who seeks to impose arbitrary tariffs and to deport people who fled here to escape oppression."
"It could be called the Congress of the United States."
"It could be called the Congress of the United States."
February 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Excerpt: "If only we had a body, with democratic legitimacy and powers conferred by a Constitution, that could overrule a president who seeks to impose arbitrary tariffs and to deport people who fled here to escape oppression."
"It could be called the Congress of the United States."
"It could be called the Congress of the United States."
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OPINION: "People from most declining democracies and republics throughout history must have felt something similar. I’ve read letters from pre-WWII Germans who moved from 'we’re worried' to 'we’re scared,'" Kimberly Griffin writes.
https://buff.ly/3EcUw1B
https://buff.ly/3EcUw1B
February 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
OPINION: "People from most declining democracies and republics throughout history must have felt something similar. I’ve read letters from pre-WWII Germans who moved from 'we’re worried' to 'we’re scared,'" Kimberly Griffin writes.
https://buff.ly/3EcUw1B
https://buff.ly/3EcUw1B
Chomp chomp chomp.
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Chomp chomp chomp.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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These are scary times. Maybe it wasn’t a bright idea to elect a vindictive simpleton.
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
These are scary times. Maybe it wasn’t a bright idea to elect a vindictive simpleton.
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The NTSB will from now on issue notification and updates on news conferences exclusively through the Elon Musk owned X platform.
They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms.
In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.
They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms.
In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.
February 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The NTSB will from now on issue notification and updates on news conferences exclusively through the Elon Musk owned X platform.
They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms.
In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.
They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms.
In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.