Jodi Ochstein
@jodiochstein.bsky.social
How to End the Shadow Budget and Protect Congress’s Power of the Purse at www.justsecurity.org/125302/shado...
How to End Shadow Budget, Protect Congress’s Power of Purse
Unless Congress reasserts control over federal spending, the balance the framers designed could collapse into a self-financing presidency.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How to End the Shadow Budget and Protect Congress’s Power of the Purse at www.justsecurity.org/125302/shado...
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BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
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However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Joshua is home 💔
May his family, friends & the Tanzanian people find comfort in the days ahead 🇮🇱🤝🇹🇿
Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema peponi ~ May God rest his soul in peace
May his family, friends & the Tanzanian people find comfort in the days ahead 🇮🇱🤝🇹🇿
Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema peponi ~ May God rest his soul in peace
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Joshua is home 💔
May his family, friends & the Tanzanian people find comfort in the days ahead 🇮🇱🤝🇹🇿
Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema peponi ~ May God rest his soul in peace
May his family, friends & the Tanzanian people find comfort in the days ahead 🇮🇱🤝🇹🇿
Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema peponi ~ May God rest his soul in peace
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“Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing ‘cute’ responses to Plaintiffs' counsel's questions or outright lying.”
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing ‘cute’ responses to Plaintiffs' counsel's questions or outright lying.”
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
Reposted by Jodi Ochstein
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
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Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." — George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." — George Orwell, Animal Farm
The International Law Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Boat Strikes at www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Strikes
The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under IHRL is to refrain from sharing intelligence that enables them.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The International Law Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Boat Strikes at www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
"Democrats are currently so desperate for strong male role models to promote as candidates that they’re all tangled up over whether a burly Maine oysterman’s Nazi-symbol tattoo is defensible."
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No, Women Aren’t the Problem
America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.
www.theatlantic.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Democrats are currently so desperate for strong male role models to promote as candidates that they’re all tangled up over whether a burly Maine oysterman’s Nazi-symbol tattoo is defensible."
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www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
"Fillers are big with this crew — especially lips, says Pittman, as are Botox and Dysport."
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D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
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November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Fillers are big with this crew — especially lips, says Pittman, as are Botox and Dysport."
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"Highgate did not deny meeting Khan’s representatives, describing such information as “private, commercially sensitive and confidential”.
In a statement to the Guardian, Khan’s lawyers did not dispute such a meeting took place."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
In a statement to the Guardian, Khan’s lawyers did not dispute such a meeting took place."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Revealed: Qatar-linked intelligence operation targeted ICC prosecutor’s alleged victim
Exclusive: Woman who accused Karim Khan of misconduct was subject of covert operation involving two British private intelligence firms
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November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Highgate did not deny meeting Khan’s representatives, describing such information as “private, commercially sensitive and confidential”.
In a statement to the Guardian, Khan’s lawyers did not dispute such a meeting took place."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
In a statement to the Guardian, Khan’s lawyers did not dispute such a meeting took place."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
“By claiming these results, the regime wants to send a message: ‘Don't try to resist us, we are moving forward in broad daylight,’”
How Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan went from reform to repression f24.my/BXb4.BS
How Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan went from reform to repression
Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as Tanzania’s president on Monday after winning an election in which her main rivals had been prevented from running. Once seen as a new democratic hope after first ri...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“By claiming these results, the regime wants to send a message: ‘Don't try to resist us, we are moving forward in broad daylight,’”
How Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan went from reform to repression f24.my/BXb4.BS
How Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan went from reform to repression
Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as Tanzania’s president on Monday after winning an election in which her main rivals had been prevented from running. Once seen as a new democratic hope after first ri...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
How Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan went from reform to repression f24.my/BXb4.BS
“My film is not Israeli and neither am I. I am Ukrainian and my decision is based not on my nationality but on the principles I have held my entire life. It is my firm conviction that you cannot judge a nation...we judge people by their actions, not by their passports,”
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Alexander Rodnyansky Pulls Doc From IDFA Following Move To Bar Israeli State-Backed Bodies & Films
Alexander Rodnyansky Pulls Doc From IDFA Following Move To Bar Israeli State-Backed Bodies & Films
deadline.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“My film is not Israeli and neither am I. I am Ukrainian and my decision is based not on my nationality but on the principles I have held my entire life. It is my firm conviction that you cannot judge a nation...we judge people by their actions, not by their passports,”
deadline.com/2025/11/alex...
deadline.com/2025/11/alex...
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This is a very old argument on the right. Fuentes is just the first mainstream figure to move from "not all Jews, just the rich ones" to "yeah, all Jews."
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is a very old argument on the right. Fuentes is just the first mainstream figure to move from "not all Jews, just the rich ones" to "yeah, all Jews."
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin knew that “when Israel ignores the concerns of Palestinians, the country undermines its own security.”
Dennis Ross reflects on the most honest statesman he ever knew, 30 years after his assassination:
Dennis Ross reflects on the most honest statesman he ever knew, 30 years after his assassination:
Yitzhak Rabin Knew What Netanyahu Doesn’t
Thirty years after Rabin’s assassination, Israel is ignoring the lessons of the most honest statesman I’ve ever known.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin knew that “when Israel ignores the concerns of Palestinians, the country undermines its own security.”
Dennis Ross reflects on the most honest statesman he ever knew, 30 years after his assassination:
Dennis Ross reflects on the most honest statesman he ever knew, 30 years after his assassination:
"Mr. Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, last month..."
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Trump on Binance cryptocurrency tycoon he pardoned: "I don't know who he is"
President Trump told 60 Minutes he doesn't know the Binance crypto exchange founder he pardoned. Binance has done business with the Trump family's crypto firm World Liberty Financial.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Mr. Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, last month..."
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