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crockett.house.gov
Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution.

This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
thehill.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Sen Van Hollen met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa, who told him that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because the Trump admin is paying them to do so.

They also provided no evidence that Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13 or committed any crimes.
April 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
"A jury found an Illinois landlord guilty of murder and hate-crime charges on Friday for a brutal 2023 attack on a Palestinian American family that killed a six-year-old."

RIP Wadee Alfayoumi
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Illinois landlord found guilty in 2023 murder of six-year-old Palestinian boy
Joseph Czuba, 73, had been charged in fatal stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and wounding of mother, Hanan Shaheen
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
An anti-Palestinian landlord in Illinois has been found guilty of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy 26 times and seriously injuring his mother just for being Palestinian Americans.

RIP Wadee Alfayoumi
Picture of Wadee Alfayoumi
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
The criticism over Zelenskyy not wearing a suit is not only foolish but more importantly: completely fails to understand why he doesn't. Of course the man own suits. That's not the point.

Here's why Zelenskky is not wearing a suit...

(quick thread)
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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aimtx.bsky.social
No. This is fake. Here is the actual transcript:
www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...
Trump, Zelenskyy, Vance Face Off In Oval Office Shouting Match—Here’s Everything They Said
A meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump devolved into a shouting match Friday.
www.forbes.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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atrupar.com
watch Marco Rubio in this clip
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.
February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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atrupar.com
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
This is weird! I don’t want politicians to be my friend, I just want healthcare
February 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Feb 13
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:

"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Dear Attorney General Bondi: On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts. When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. In carrying out that responsibility, I am guided by, among other things, the Principles of Federal Prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memoranda instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good-faith arguments and not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my o…
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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mattdpearce.com
Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
10 minutes ago Jonah Bromwich The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation has resigned from the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan rather than agree to file a motion seeking to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor. In his resignation letter, Hagan Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor "would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials." He added: "If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
February 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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artcandee.bsky.social
Rep. Jasmine Crockett roasts the newly-formed DOGE subcommittee Chairwoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for missing "every single one of those improper payment hearings" in the House Oversight Committee.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
February 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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petermorley.bsky.social
My hero Jasmine Crockett TODAY at DOGE Hearing! Bravo 👏

youtu.be/BbiSakOp9ck?...
Jasmine Crockett calls out Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elon Musk during DOGE subcommittee hearing
YouTube video by Austin American-Statesman
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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libertyovergov.bsky.social
Jasmine Crockett DOGE walking MTG at the DOGE Subcommittee hearing. 🤣
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#BluePetPatrol💙🐾
#Thisiswhywefight #Resistance #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga
February 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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atrupar.com
Moskowitz: "Chairman Jordan said, 'what a difference 4 years makes.' Well apparently not. Because today is Groundhog Day ... I brought pictures of the chairman doing this hearing. So here's one picture from March 9, 2023, he did this hearing. Then, on March 30, 2023, he did this hearing again ... "
February 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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atrupar.com
Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."
February 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Way to go Ben Folds 👏👏👏👏👏 consequence.net/2025/02/ben-...
February 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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actualbenfolds.bsky.social
Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM