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Problems Clown, Esq.
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i'm not making any judgements on how likely/unlikely this is to happen, it would just be very 21st century for nothing to really change because nobody cares enough to seize the moment
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
Liars and cowards
April 7 Liz Oyer, pardon attorney: In February, I was assigned to a working group that the attorney general created to restore gun rights to people convicted of crimes. I was asked to identify suitable recipients, so I looked for people who had committed minor low-level offenses in the very distant past and demonstrated exemplary conduct in the community for many years since their conviction. The pool was narrowed to nine people. And then I was asked to add Mel Gibson to the list. Mel Gibson has a history of domestic violence, and I'm well aware from my experience and training that it is very dangerous for a person with a domestic-violence history to possess a firearm. As attorney general, Bondi has the power to restore rights without my blessing. My recommendation was sought, I believe, to give a veneer of legitimacy to what was actually a political favor for a friend of the president. I said I couldn't recommend restoration. And then I waited for the other shoe to drop. I finally got a phone call from Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general. It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know. I felt sick. I literally did not sleep at all that night. I wrote back still not making the recommendation. At 2 o'clock that afternoon, I was in a meeting when I learned that I was fired. My deputy told me to grab my bag and literally pulled me out of the room by my elbow and told me in the hallway that she had gotten a call saying that there were security officers in my office waiting to walk me out of the building. I threw everything into a grocery bag and walked out of the office. I passed a lot of people I knew on the way out, and everybody was just looking on in shock. Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, issued a statement saying that I was lying about the circumstances leading up to my firing. Then I was invited by the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress. The administration sent armed U.S. Marshals to my home to deliver a letter warning me about testifying. A career employee who was still at the department helped me get it called off before they got to my house, where my teenager was home alone. I felt the purpose was to intimidate me. And I think it was intended to send a message to other department employees, too, who might be thinking about speaking up. I needed a lawyer. I spent the entire weekend calling all of the lawyers that I know at law firms around D.C. Everybody I talked to was saying: "Thank you so much for what you're doing. We'll do whatever we can behind the scenes to support you." But nobody actually wanted to sit behind me at a congressional hearing. Nobody wanted to put their name on a letter to Todd Blanche. Unfortunately, only Democrats attended the hearing. There were no Republicans. It has really perplexed me that there's not a shared level of bipartisan concern about what's happening inside the Department of Justice.
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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golden.yuri.cool
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
One of the big sorting moments in the GOP post-Trump (...and maybe not just "post-"?) is going to be "Crank, Opportunistically Held Beliefs" and "Crank, Genuinely Held Beliefs"
And considering a lot of the worst hypocrisies of the GOP *involve* those beliefs...that's a huge potential fracture point.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
deltavelocity.bsky.social
The main point is the whole Lem Billings thing but also he had morally complicated disaster bisexual energy just like Alexander the Great
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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redmondgeek.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM