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Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Military commanders are speaking out...

“The actions have been taken for no stated cause or performance issues, and that creates a chilling effect"

"It threatens the independence and quality of advice upon which commanders rely"

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

While these top lawyers can only provide advice to military commanders, their independent interpretation of the law is a vital part of major decisions made by the service chiefs.

Some military lawyers worry the firings will taint whoever takes the job next. “Anyone nominated to replace them will be viewed by many, both inside and outside the ranks, as simply a compliant politico,” wrote Charlie Dunlap, a retired Air Force major general who served as the service’s deputy JAG before his retirement in 2010.

Others question whether the firings are even legal since Defense Department employees are not allowed to interfere with a judge advocate general’s ability to give legal advice.

“The actions have been taken for no stated cause or performance issues, and that creates a chilling effect,” said Scott Flesch, a former Army lawyer. “It threatens the independence and quality of advice upon which commanders rely and which the JAG corps is required to provide.”

November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

She never would have died had she not been deployed somewhere she shouldn't have been deployed.

#NationalGuard

Washington DC shooting suspect had CIA ties

November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Re: Epstein files

"In 1994, Trump took a 13-year-old girl to a party with Jeffrey Epstein (already a registered sex offender), and raped her that night in what was a "savage sexual attack...""

journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc...

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030199.txt

1994, Trump took a 13-year-old girl to a party with Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire
who was a notorious registered sex offender, and raped her that night in what was a "savage sexual attack," according to a lawsuit filed in June 2016 by "Jane Doe." The account was corroborated by a witness in the suit, who claimed to have watched as the child performed various sexual acts on Trump and Epstein even after the two were
advised she was a minor.
"Immediately following this rape Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to
reveal any of the details of Defendant Trumpaems sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed," Jane Doe wrote in the lawsuit, filed in New York.

The lawsuit was dropped in November 2016, just four days before the election, with Jane
Doe's attorneys citing "numerous threats" against her.

The charges and allegations brought against Donald Trump for sexual crimes include:

1 Accusations filed in court against Trump
1.1 Ivana Trump (1989)
1.2 (1992)
1.3 (2007)

2 Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debate

3 Public allegations in 2016 of unwanted physical contact
3.1 (1980s)
3.2 1 (1990s)
3.3 (1997)
3.4 r (1997)
3.53 (1998)
3.6 (2003)
3.7 (2005)
3.8 (2005)
3.9 (2006)
3.10 (2006)
3.11
3.12

4 Allegations
4.1 Miss Teen
(2010)
(2013)
of pageant dressing room visits
USA contestants
4.2 (2000)
4.3
(2001)
4.4 Unnamed contestants (2001)
4. (2006) - There are of course scores of cases that have been settled
out of court that we can not have any clear public record of as they are constrained by
non-disclosure agreements.

HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030199.txt

November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

"Me thinking there is no news that can surprise me anymore" text over image of a school bus driving over train tracks

Second image of train smashing into bus saying "Trump is a bottom""

November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

I wish every time this story would he shared about the felching, that this picture of him was used instead. Which is grosser, his mouth just normally or his mouth filled with felch?

November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Apparently, Trump didn't learn from J6 and is going to try for a violent uprising yet again.

Notice how the ads suddenly the last few days have been a heck of a lot more firearms. Plausible deniability.

Social media gives him enough rope to seal his own fate.

#Sedition
#Trump
#Constitution

Adverts from Trump's Truth Social account of two ads for firearms and a post in between of a man holding a "truth!" sign.

Truth Social post shared by Trump from Tea Party Patriot HQ. The post pictures a screenshot of the law defining Sedition. It then defines mutiny or sedition. Then it showcases parties they believe to be violating those. He seems to not understand what's actually being said and that he himself is quite clearly in violation of these laws.

Party of Family Values showcasing DreamSingles, which essentially an image suggesting prostitution

November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Part 2 of 2

#epsteinfiles
#ivankatrump
#trump
#Weingarten
#weissburg
#donjr

November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Interesting little exchange with Epstein contingency planning related to Trump

Part 1 of 2

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031045.txt.pdf

Sorry no alt text.

journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc...

November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Just had that suit dry cleaned

November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Let's not forget he believed women should go to college ontmly for a "Mrs" degree. Also, didn't think babies should cry.

We have to tell our babies to stop crying - Charlie Kirk

Joe Rogan Podcast News retreated by Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk: "The American way of life is very simple I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bikes till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school. While also not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. That's important."

Charlie Kirk: importing millions of Muslims is civilizational suicide Europe must stop, or die.

"Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the past 10 years?"

"Counting or not counting gang violence?"

Imagine those being your last words.

September 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

-Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883

July 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

How many foreign students are at U.S. colleges?

www.reuters.com/data/how-man...

Foreign students more likely pay full tuition, so they subsidize others' student aid.

The costs of cutting them mean:
⬆️ deaths
⬆️ lives devastated
⬆️ terrorism from former allies

⬇️ innovation
⬇️ foreign alliances

School Foreign Students Total Enrollment Percent Foreign
Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses 7,772 8,230 94%
Hult International Business School 1,704 2,003 85%
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology 2,770 3,558 78%
New England College 1,533 2,856 54%
Illinois Institute of Technology 4,381 8,563 51%
Manhattan School of Music 560 1,097 51%
St. Francis College 1,791 3,552 50%
Northeastern University Professional Programs 3,644 7,471 49%
Brigham Young University-Hawaii 1,356 2,836 48%
Art Center College of Design 1,138 2,382 48%
Carnegie Mellon University 6,611 15,596 42%
Maharishi International University 1,089 2,666 41%
Columbia University in the City of New York 13,898 35,279 39%
Northeastern University 12,146 31,159 39%
The New School 3,663 9,434 39%
California College of the Arts 515 1,333 39%
University of New Haven 3,682 9,830 37%
Rhode Island School of Design 930 2,540 37%
Stevens Institute of Technology 3,225 8,842 36%
University of Bridgeport 1,464 4,103 36%
Pratt Institute-Main 1,866 5,232 36%
Lindsey Wilson College 1,437 4,055 35%
Campbellsville University 4,408 12,451 35%
Clark University 1,448 4,124 35%
Webster University 2,611 7,606 34%
Babson College 1,348 3,943 34%
New York University 19,373 57,335 34%
Teachers College at Columbia University 1,478 4,392 34%
The Juilliard School 334 1,028 32%
Saint Peter's University 1,183 3,673 32%
California Institute of Technology 788 2,463 32%
California Institute of the Arts 425 1,353 31%
University of Rochester 3,801 12,160 31%
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1,049 3,401 31%
University of Chicago 5,629 18,339 31%
Berklee College of Music 2,591 8,448 31%
University of Central Missouri 3,846 12,788 30%
Niagara University 1,250 4,221 30%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3,505 11,920 29%
Boston University 10,468 36,624 29%
Union College 318 1,129 28%
Washington University in St Louis 4,528 16,500 27%
Christian Brothers University 560 2,043 27%
University of Southern California 12,754…

June 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Their lives and the future of academia and science largely depends on what you do right now, @harvard.edu. Protect them because it protects all of us and we need you now more than ever.

I am so proud of you for taking a stand against this.

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social can fuck right off though.

Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to. Nobody told us that! We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming. We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114566671392866950

May 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Received an email about this eith the EEOC today. There's no way that data is going to be used for good in this administration, I fear.

Overview:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1 Data to collect summary pay data from employers, including federal contractors and subcontractors, with 100 or more employees for Calendar Years 2020 and 2021. Summary pay data for private employer’s subject to Title VII jurisdiction will go to the EEOC.

May 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

$600 billion Trump promised Saudi Arabia. $600 BILLION!! So much for his claim he's doing this whole thing because he wants jobs in the US.

Check out this article from TipRanks | Nasdaq 100 Index Today: QQQ Erases Yearly Losses Amid CPI Report, $600 Billion Saudi Arabia Investment | https://tipranks.onelink.me/WJho/iq702hpx

May 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

We are now making enemies of Canada, Greenland, and the EU while befriending South African whites, Russians, & Saudi Arabia (the beheading capital of the world).

Major stocks #NVDA, #AMD, & #AMZN just so happened to announce billion dollar Saudi partnerships the same day as Trump's Saudi visit.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114502263160167723

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114501782498147808

NVDA (Nvidea Corporation)
Nvidia partners with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN to build AI factories and deploy advanced chips

AMD PARTNERS WITH SAUDI ARABIA'S JIMAIM IN $10B DEAL

AMAZON PLANS TO INVEST $5B TO BUILD A APEXIAL "AI ZONE" IN SAUDI ARABIA

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114500825192823646

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114499706021304117

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114499386376813091

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114499337476531986

May 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

The meeting was announced as fully open to public observation. However,...the Committee determined it needed to close a portion of the meeting... to consider... the Corporation’s internal activities...No earlier announcement of the change was possible.

www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

The meeting was announced as fully open to public observation. However, at the beginning of that meeting, the Committee determined it needed to close a portion of the meeting... the Committee voted to close a portion of the meeting to consider matters related to the Corporation’s internal activities and a request to consider and act on a resolution to recommend revising the Corporation’s line of credit agreement. No earlier announcement of the change was possible.

May 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

The federal government "shall develop and implement a strategy to govern, limit, and track dangerous ... research across the United States that occurs without Federal funding and other life-science research that could cause significant societal consequences" 🧪

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Sec. 5. Manage Risks Associated with Non-federally Funded Research. Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Director of OSTP, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the APNSA, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and the heads of other relevant agencies, shall develop and implement a strategy to govern, limit, and track dangerous gain-of-function research across the United States that occurs without Federal funding and other life-science research that could cause significant societal consequences. This strategy shall include actions to achieve comprehensive, scalable, and verifiable nucleic acid synthesis screening in non-federally funded settings. Any gaps in authorities necessary to achieve the goals of this strategy shall be addressed in a legislative proposal to be sent to the President, through the Director of OSTP and the APNSA, within 180 days of the date of this order.

May 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Trump’s focus on the Federal Register is not good.

As long as you don't know what embezzlement is, you can do it. Unless the prosecutor can prove you knew your actions were illegal, you're fine and dandy. Same w/ any other criminal offense.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The United States is drastically overregulated. The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand. Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations. The situation has become so dire that no one -– likely including those charged with enforcing our criminal laws at the Department of Justice — knows how many separate criminal offenses are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, with at least one source estimating hundreds of thousands of such crimes. Many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime.

The purpose of this order is to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States that:

(a) Criminal enforcement of criminal regulatory offenses is disfavored.

(b) Prosecution of criminal regulatory offenses is most appropriate for persons who know or can be presumed to know what is prohibited or required by the regulation and willingly choose not to comply, thereby causing or risking substantial public harm. Prosecutions of criminal regulatory offenses should focus on matters where a putative defendant is alleged to have known his conduct was unlawful.

(d) Agencies promulgating regulations potentially subject to criminal enforcement should explicitly describe the conduct subject to criminal enforcement, the authorizing statutes, and the mens rea standard applicable to those offenses.

Sec. 3. Definitions. For purposes of this order:

(a) “Agency” has the meaning given to “Executive agency” in section 105 of title 5, United States Code;

(b) “Criminal regulatory offense” means a Federal regulation that is enforceable by a criminal penalty; and

(c) “Mens rea” means the state of mind that by law must be proven to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime.

(b) The regulatory text of all NPRMs and final rules with criminal consequences published in the Federal Register after the date of this order should explicitly state a mens rea requirement for each element of a criminal regulatory offense, accompanied by citations to the relevant provisions of the authorizing statute.

May 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

We absolutely don't need it to be easier to delete laws or rules for the federal government.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. Deregulation is a critical priority for my Administration. We will foster prosperity by freeing Americans from the heavy burden of Federal regulations accumulated over decades. Although the decision about which regulations to eliminate is sometimes complex, the administrative process of removing a regulation from the Code of Federal Regulations through a rulemaking should be simple. It is not.

The Office of the Federal Register frequently takes days or, in some cases, even weeks to publish new regulatory actions. Such delay is unwarranted. The Office of the Federal Register receives final documents that are fully executed by the relevant decisionmakers — all that remains is publication. Yet despite those delays, executive departments and agencies are charged $151-$174 per column of text to publish each rule in the Federal Register. These inefficiencies inhibit my Administration’s deregulatory agenda and waste taxpayer money.

May 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM

Amber Lou

@dramber.bsky.social

Trump’s trade deal announcement today seems to be that he is keeping the 10% tariff with the UK that already existed and he's not going to tariff metal (so also staying the same).

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...