Trevrizent
@trevrizent.bsky.social
Father, Lawyer, Linguist, Pilgrim. Seeking moral, honest, decent society, and representative government consistent with such a society. Human Scum. Twitter since 2009; pseudonym since 2017.
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Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired.
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"Rather than doing the least due diligence to learn about the damage that Trump’s shutdowns have caused, Barrasso instead went on TV &...cheered the shutdown of programs protecting Christian minorities around the world." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/j...
John Barrasso Declares Programs Protecting Christian Minorities and Combatting Migration "Wrong" - emptywheel
Because John Barrasso has unquestionably parrotted already discredited propaganda, he unwittingly went on Fox News and cheered the shutdown of programs protecting Christian minorities around the world...
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February 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Rather than doing the least due diligence to learn about the damage that Trump’s shutdowns have caused, Barrasso instead went on TV &...cheered the shutdown of programs protecting Christian minorities around the world." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/j...
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I wrote in January that "Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents." It has already begun.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I wrote in January that "Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents." It has already begun.
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Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.
Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC
February 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.
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Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury.
Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting.
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Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury.
Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting.
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Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting.
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Breaking: Four top NYC officials to resign www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...
4 Top Officials Expected to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation with Trump
Four deputy mayors to Eric Adams are planning to leave in coming days after Eric Adams embraced President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Breaking: Four top NYC officials to resign www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...
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Republican lawyers and judges are rapidly moving this idea from “off the wall” to “on the wall.” We ignore or dismiss this at our own peril.
TFW a Trump-appointed judge writes that it is a "novel and complex" question whether Trump can be elected to a third term.
Sigh.
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Sigh.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Republican lawyers and judges are rapidly moving this idea from “off the wall” to “on the wall.” We ignore or dismiss this at our own peril.
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I just want to point out that selling a company's real estate, then renting it back to them, is a common tactic of private equity.
The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
The GSA Plans to Sell Hundreds of Its Federal Government Buildings
The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I just want to point out that selling a company's real estate, then renting it back to them, is a common tactic of private equity.
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Just extraordinarily vile and dangerous bigotry. Shame on Brandon Gill and shame on every Republican who can't bring themselves to condemn this disgusting act.
A House Republican is doubling down on his call to deport Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar with a fundraising email urging supporters to sign a petition to that effect.
House Republican fundraises with petition to "arrest and deport" Ilhan Omar
Omar accused Rep. Brandon Gill of attempting to "clout chase" with tactics "directly out of Donald Trump's fascist playbook."
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February 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Just extraordinarily vile and dangerous bigotry. Shame on Brandon Gill and shame on every Republican who can't bring themselves to condemn this disgusting act.
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If the Feds just filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a New York statute ….. well, that’s kind of how you’d want these disputes to work. But because the Trump administration is pathologically insecure Bondi has to dress it up as WE ARE CHARGING LETITIA JAMES
The Times-Union says it’s seen a civil complaint filed in Albany. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Justice Department sues NY over law giving licenses to immigrants
A federal lawsuit challenges New York’s Green Light Law, which has allowed thousands of nonresident immigrants to obtain licenses.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If the Feds just filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a New York statute ….. well, that’s kind of how you’d want these disputes to work. But because the Trump administration is pathologically insecure Bondi has to dress it up as WE ARE CHARGING LETITIA JAMES
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"Recently, I've been reading the posthumous memoir of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident, called, simply, 'Patriot.'" That is indeed a bracing experience. A column by Matt Labash. mattlabash.substack.com/p/our-new-pa...
Our New Pandemic: Moral Cowardice
It's contagious as hell, and spreading fast; plus, a word on what courage looks like from Alexei Navalny
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February 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"Recently, I've been reading the posthumous memoir of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident, called, simply, 'Patriot.'" That is indeed a bracing experience. A column by Matt Labash. mattlabash.substack.com/p/our-new-pa...
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This made me wonder about the most cited scholars and the degree to which they cite each other. Just because.
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TaxProf Blog: Leiter: Law Prof Citation Rings Are Scholarly Malpractice
Brian Leiter (Chicago; Google Scholar),
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February 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This made me wonder about the most cited scholars and the degree to which they cite each other. Just because.
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A lot of your have read declaration in USAID case from Marcus Doe, which described being evacuated from Kinshasa.
Doc 24-2 here.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619...
A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).
Doc 24-2 here.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619...
A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A lot of your have read declaration in USAID case from Marcus Doe, which described being evacuated from Kinshasa.
Doc 24-2 here.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619...
A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).
Doc 24-2 here.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619...
A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).
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this is so fucking embarrassing, man, people got mad about burrito taxis and accidentally elected a guy whose favorite star trek character is boba fett
I don't think Musk has understood a single movie he has ever watched...
February 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
this is so fucking embarrassing, man, people got mad about burrito taxis and accidentally elected a guy whose favorite star trek character is boba fett
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Always nice when your employee bribes you with $10 million.
Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump.
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Elon Musk's company X settles Trump lawsuit over account suspension
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta recently said it would pay $25 million to settle a similar lawsuit by President Donald Trump.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Always nice when your employee bribes you with $10 million.
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Wild times we live in.
Tweet via 2018.
Tweet via 2018.
February 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wild times we live in.
Tweet via 2018.
Tweet via 2018.
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
February 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
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The first ever Biden vs. Trump PRICE CHECK! President Donald J. Trump promised he would start to get prices down on day one of his presidency. This is a quick list of some common grocery items.
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The first ever Biden vs. Trump PRICE CHECK! President Donald J. Trump promised he would start to get prices down on day one of his presidency. This is a quick list of some common grocery items.
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You’re being conned, America
February 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You’re being conned, America
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There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.
February 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.
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i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow
NEW: A week after Elon Musk's DOGE gained access to Treasury's payments system, funds to the National Endowment for Democracy have been inexplicably frozen.
The move is a huge win for Beijing, imperilling Chinese civil society groups around the world.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
The move is a huge win for Beijing, imperilling Chinese civil society groups around the world.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
DOGE's Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP - The Wire China
The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.
www.thewirechina.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow
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“If the majority wants to vote now without looking into this matter, that’s fine…But if it doesn’t get aired now in the Senate, this question will get aired later in the courts. There is no way the genie of Patel’s candor is going back in the bottle.”
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The Situation: The FBI Director Can’t Be A Liar
The Senate can’t sweep Kash Patel’s lack of candor under the rug forever.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“If the majority wants to vote now without looking into this matter, that’s fine…But if it doesn’t get aired now in the Senate, this question will get aired later in the courts. There is no way the genie of Patel’s candor is going back in the bottle.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports
February 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports