@transmgmnt1.bsky.social
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"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use
Kayleigh McEnany on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: "For all the concern about the 'the First Amendment, the First Amendment,' what about all the amendments that Charlie Kirk lost? Because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now. None."
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use
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SEN. CRUZ: “.. If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
SEN. CRUZ: “.. If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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This is the truth: “The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” researchers found.
Far-right attacks are both more numerous and more lethal. In Trump's U.S., it only counts when the left does it. trib.al/T5RBMoh
Far-right attacks are both more numerous and more lethal. In Trump's U.S., it only counts when the left does it. trib.al/T5RBMoh
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is the truth: “The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” researchers found.
Far-right attacks are both more numerous and more lethal. In Trump's U.S., it only counts when the left does it. trib.al/T5RBMoh
Far-right attacks are both more numerous and more lethal. In Trump's U.S., it only counts when the left does it. trib.al/T5RBMoh
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Former senior FBI special agent Michael Feinberg tells Jen Psaki that fellow agents, including some still serving, encouraged him to write about his dismissal from the agency for being friends with a Trump political enemy. "I'm not the only one who's been treated this way."
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Former senior FBI special agent Michael Feinberg tells Jen Psaki that fellow agents, including some still serving, encouraged him to write about his dismissal from the agency for being friends with a Trump political enemy. "I'm not the only one who's been treated this way."
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BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case
Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.
newrepublic.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
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the swamp expands
It is boom time in Washington for the influence industry, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican lobbyists.
Lobbyists Revel in Trump Bonanza but Ask How Long It Can Last
Consultants try to get rich in president’s second term, but without attracting scrutiny.
on.wsj.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
the swamp expands
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BREAKING: As Senate nears vote on Trump 3rd Cir nominee Emil Bove, DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni sends Senate emails/texts backing claims Bove discussed saying "fuck you" to judicial orders, gave DHS OK to offload immigrants in El Salvador w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Internal DOJ messages bolster claim that Trump judicial nominee spoke of defying court orders
Emil Bove, a top DOJ official who has been nominated to be an appellate judge, is the subject of whistleblower allegations.
www.politico.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
BREAKING: As Senate nears vote on Trump 3rd Cir nominee Emil Bove, DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni sends Senate emails/texts backing claims Bove discussed saying "fuck you" to judicial orders, gave DHS OK to offload immigrants in El Salvador w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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In a lot of states, for a 35-yr-old man without very specific disabilities to qualify for Medicaid, he’d have to make less than $16K/yr and have essentially zero assets. Medicaid would mostly only cover his preventative health (ie checkups), would not cover any dental, and most likely not cover eye.
Steve Scalise: "Disabled people will get better Medicaid under this bill because all of the fully able-bodied -- the 35-year-old guy sitting at home playing video games in his mom's basement -- he's gonna have to go work. And so he will not be crowding out disabled people in Medicaid."
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In a lot of states, for a 35-yr-old man without very specific disabilities to qualify for Medicaid, he’d have to make less than $16K/yr and have essentially zero assets. Medicaid would mostly only cover his preventative health (ie checkups), would not cover any dental, and most likely not cover eye.
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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷♂️
More punishment for June 14.
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place.In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded to Pre...
www.rawstory.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷♂️
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Bc journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
DOGE Debunking - emptywheel
MuskWatch’s DOGE tracker Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million w...
www.emptywheel.net
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Bc journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
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Conspiring to cook the intelligence on TdA gang ties to Venezuela:
"'We need to do some rewriting' and more analytic work 'so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,' Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3."
"'We need to do some rewriting' and more analytic work 'so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,' Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3."
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Conspiring to cook the intelligence on TdA gang ties to Venezuela:
"'We need to do some rewriting' and more analytic work 'so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,' Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3."
"'We need to do some rewriting' and more analytic work 'so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,' Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3."
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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Trump's Quid Pro Quo Mid East Foreign Policy
Qatar & Saudi Arabia are learning that Trump will sidestep Israel, & the Constitution, if you line up his pockets, but how will these bribes impact Palestinians, the region, & US security?
W @peterbeinart.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Qatar & Saudi Arabia are learning that Trump will sidestep Israel, & the Constitution, if you line up his pockets, but how will these bribes impact Palestinians, the region, & US security?
W @peterbeinart.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
May 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump's Quid Pro Quo Mid East Foreign Policy
Qatar & Saudi Arabia are learning that Trump will sidestep Israel, & the Constitution, if you line up his pockets, but how will these bribes impact Palestinians, the region, & US security?
W @peterbeinart.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Qatar & Saudi Arabia are learning that Trump will sidestep Israel, & the Constitution, if you line up his pockets, but how will these bribes impact Palestinians, the region, & US security?
W @peterbeinart.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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This is as good a time as any to post this:
May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is as good a time as any to post this:
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If you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
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What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
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Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...
May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...
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Eagle Ed Martin is bitching bc in an attempt to give him a complaint against him, D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel sent him notice of an investigation into his conduct at DOJ civil division.
Always a victim, these right wing white Christian men.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ous...
Always a victim, these right wing white Christian men.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ous...
Ousted top federal prosecutor in Washington facing ethics probe
The lawyer President Donald Trump tapped to serve as Washington, D.C.'s top prosecutor and then dropped in the face of Senate opposition, said on Wednesday he is facing a professional ethics investigation, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Eagle Ed Martin is bitching bc in an attempt to give him a complaint against him, D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel sent him notice of an investigation into his conduct at DOJ civil division.
Always a victim, these right wing white Christian men.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ous...
Always a victim, these right wing white Christian men.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ous...
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Pam Bondi is a real one. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Pam Bondi is a real one. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution—the Foreign Emoluments Clause—states no person holding an office of the United States shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present “of any kind whatever” (yes, it says those very words) from any foreign state.
Trump Writes Congress out of the Constitution—and Congress Says Fine
The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those. The question is, who will stop it?
newrepublic.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution—the Foreign Emoluments Clause—states no person holding an office of the United States shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present “of any kind whatever” (yes, it says those very words) from any foreign state.
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The Attorney General is so unserious.
If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this.
Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?
If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this.
Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Attorney General is so unserious.
If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this.
Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?
If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this.
Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?