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To avoid voting on the Epstein files, Republicans prematurely fled DC to get an early start on August recess. That means you might have a chance to pressure your GOP representative in person at an upcoming town hall, office visit, or other public event: indivisible.org/epsteinfiles...
No post-Trump settlement can accept his regime as having been legitimate. Either because we have a republic again, or a new autocrat, or whatever else, but it isn’t possible to have a system that treats his actions as valid precedent after he’s gone. A personalist regime can’t survive the person.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
The FBI director whose prior career was “podcast guest with an enemies list” thinks other people are engaged in “political weaponization”
Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.
Let me expand on points raised in this thread. A great bulk of the internal conduct of the federal govt is governed by admin procedures, norm or laws that have no criminal penalties attached to them. The use of IRS/tax payer info is a major exception to that. The law envisions various ways ...
As expected, dispute appears to be over White House demands to break the law. These aren't 'disputes'. Law is clear on this. Only mystery is how it was that Long, a very Trumpy guy and not part of the ethics community, seems to have not gone along, or not enough.
“This is a group of people who have been very intentional about trying to drive fear in order to control power of people of color” @maya4rights.bsky.social explains what is at the root of Stephen Miller’s assertion that D.C. is more violent than Baghdad.
@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We've filed a response to Governor Abbott's filing in the Texas Supreme Court. Our response is basically: 'You are stupid. You filed this in the wrong court. You are not the right person to file it. And you filed it in the wrong way.'"
The irony is . . . too much. This evil, disingenuous, incompetent, hypocritical, lying regime touted itself as being tough on crime. The drug cartels were supposed to be its biggest target. What a fucking joke.
Democracy Defenders Fund wants to know who at DOJ determined that Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender, could be transferred to a minimum-security prison camp. The group has filed a FOIA request for records about the transfer — including from Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche. tinyurl.com/4sj4uzyn
This is a stick-up right out in the open.
