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A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway.

I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License
Why I need your courage now more than ever to combat injustice in our legal systems and protect due process of law for All people in the United States
www.qasimrashid.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?

Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.

(Seriously, that’s the answer)
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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you know who else had an infraction
Trump on Lisa Cook: "She seems to have had an infraction, and she can't have an infraction."
August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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omfg Grok
August 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The clearest possible indication that Bove now has enough votes to be confirmed.
July 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Do you have any idea how many children are in America, the liberal media never highlights all the ones who don’t die
Cornyn highlights the people who didn't die in the Texas floods: "It's a very sad time, but it's also a time when 850+ campers were accounted for and recovered ... this was a 100 year flood event ... it's just a time of very many conflicting feelings."
July 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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RFK Jr. just fired all 17 CDC vaccine advisers—experts appointed through a rigorous, bipartisan process. He’s replacing them with handpicked loyalists. This isn’t restoring trust—it’s sabotaging public health in the middle of a measles outbreak. Reckless and deadly.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
RFK Jr. fires entire CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted all 17 members of a panel that advises the CDC on the safety, efficacy and clinical needs of vaccines.
www.usatoday.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Everyone should look on the bright side: We have no idea if Trump will send Seal Team Six after Gov. Newsom. But at least we know that, if Trump did it, he’d be immune from criminal prosecution for doing it.
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out.
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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I am going to need a minute here
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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End the interview right there
David Pogue: “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal. I mean, you were one of those kids, right?”
Elon Musk: “Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy"
Musk Fends Off Trump Questions in Tense Interview Exchange
The Tesla CEO bristled when asked about politics.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Oh look. The Press Secretary is lying again
Leavitt: "There will be no increase to the deficit."
May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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/5 And at this point the realtor asked if I had seen the exercise room and I was like DO I FUCKING LOOK LIKE SOMEONE FOR WHOM AN EXERCISE ROOM IS A TOP PRIORITY and my wife suggests I am taking all of this too seriously and I don’t remember what happened after that but I woke up resentful
May 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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judge, I hate to break this to you
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Ionosphere Declines Offer Of Horse

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...
SpaceX Loses Control of Starship, Adding to Spacecraft’s Mixed Record
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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No, seriously, why interview him?
CNBC: Are you thinking eventually tariffs will get down to the level that businesses can negotiate within -- 10% or less -- or do you think a lot of this is going to be paid by the American consumer too?

HASSETT: Well in the end that's going to be up to the president
May 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this
May 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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What’s interesting/ignorant about this is that we *do do the big things here - the AI and the weapons systems. And we don’t do T shirts and textiles at scale.

Once again, he has no idea how any of this works.
Trump: "We're not looking to make sneakers and t-shirts. We want to make military equipment, we want to make big things. We want to do the AI things with the computers. But the textile -- you know, I'm not looking to make t-shirts, to be honest. I'm not looking to make socks."
May 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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John Bates does not rule against the Executive very often.
BREAKING: Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, holds that Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block is likely unconstitutional — "doubly" — and will be blocked in full. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Judge Murphy in Mass. caused:

-Street violence in Tripoli
-The loss of humanitarian assistance in South Sudan
-Disruption to the U.S.-Djibouti relationship

because he is confronting a violation of his court orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Bessent dismisses concerns about bonds and the dollar as a misguided narrative: "The notion that any movements in the bond market are being driven by the action of Congress is...wrong." On the dollar: "A lot of this is..other country currencies' strengthening, as opposed to the dollar weakening."
May 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I actually wanted to say about this today @marketplace.org, “trade gap my a$&.” My EP wouldn’t let me.
This colloquy between @profmmurray.bsky.social and @justinwolfers.bsky.social, which took place before the Department of Homeland Security blocked Harvard University from enrolling international students, is newly relevant:
It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed.

International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally.

But they can't come without reliable visas.
May 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...
Gaming Out a Sudden Stop
What happens if investors lose faith in America?
paulkrugman.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM