You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday
"Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one’s wealth counts more than another’s vote" - Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Todd Eddins
A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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Thank you, caller. Also, what’s up with the host?
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 7d agoThe caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.
The chances are quite good that the "number three" at DOJ who ordered Jim Comey to be illegally surveilled was Third Circuit judge Emil Bove. (He was nominated days later.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![6. The following morning, the Secret Service submitted an emergency request to
Verizon in which an agent represented that such surveillance “relate[d] to an emergency involving
danger of death or serious physical injury to a person, necessitating disclosure without delay of
information relating to that emergency.” Ex. E. [013475-77] The Secret Service agent who
completed the form signed an attestation stating: “I certify that the foregoing is true and correct
and understand that Verizon may rely upon this form to make an emergency disclosure to my law
enforcement agency … pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(8) or 2702(c)(4).” Id. The declarant
advised the ATSAIC that he “was asked by the SAIC to ping the cellphone of James Comey via
exigency.” Ex. D. [013417] He further added that he did so “with hesitation.” Id. The same
document indicates that an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (“ASAIC”) reported that “the # 3
guy at DOJ ‘wanted to ping the cellphone via an exigency request.’”3
Id.
7. Secret Service case records provided in discovery show that Mr. Comey’s cell
phone was electronically tracked that day as he and his wife drove north on Interstate 95 (“I-95”)
from North Carolina toward his Virginia home. The Comeys were also physically surveilled
during the trip, but trailing agents lost contact when the Comeys exited I-95 at one point to drive
toward the cemetery where the Comeys’ son is buried. The electronic surveillance captured the
trip to the cemetery. (The Government later seized—pursuant to the challenged March 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreieobn5egqgq6vjid4fyzhfkbfdq7wbtqkelblvctdqwqaywzgeova)
![Screen shot of the opinion. It reads:
Michael H. Simon, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is a motion brought by Plaintiff, the United States of America, to enforce ¶ 241 of the settlement agreement entered in this case. ECF 520. Plaintiff states that it has asked Defendant, the City of Portland (“City”), to provide certain documents that the United States contends are “related to the City’s compliance with the Agreement” and the City “has not provided most of the requested documents.” Id. at 4. The City opposes the motion on several grounds, including arguing that the United States Department of Justice “is proceeding with unclean hands [and] in bad faith.” ECF 523 at 17 (internal page 14). The amici curiae also oppose Plaintiff’s motion. ECF 522. The matter has been fully briefed, and the Court has considered the parties’ documentary evidence and heard oral argument. ECF 535. [Highlighted] For the reasons explained below, the Court denies the United States’ motion to enforce on the grounds that the Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the United States has brought this motion in bad faith and with unclean hands. [end of highlighted]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ubw622ecoiwoihngsxrsx6n/bafkreif5gypcx7plvgx6ky677hopvt3ug5ajroff542crasbwtljawlvz4)
Say you're a bush pilot flying food, clean water, and medicine to a remote town. One day, you decide you just don't feel like doing it. People in the town die because they didn't get meds in time. Are you responsible for those deaths? Bremmer says "obviously" no. I say obviously, undoubtedly, yes.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
abolish ice is the middle of the road, centrist position
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w agoA quarter of Republicans (!) support abolishing ICE
I am not very religious, but the idea of each person as "endowed with infinite worth" moves me to tears. So many people are being knocked out under this regime whom we can never get back.
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3w agoJames Talarico: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. He wasn't their intended target. But he looked like their intended target. Lorenzo was a child of God, endowed with infinite worth. His life was invaluable. His death was senseless. Our neighbor, our fellow Texan, deserves justice.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w agoBREAKING: ICE orders officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles after fatal shootings in Maine and Texas, according to a current senior DHS official and two former senior DHS officials.
An apparent ICE-related shooting in Maine is a good time to remember to treat the agency's initial claims with skepticism rather than credulity.
In all seriousness, it's possible the Kremlin assassinated Graham. For all his many, many faults, he really was trying to influence the GOP to support Ukraine and apply pressure to Russia, and it was working. He appears to have negotiated new sanctions on RU & new arms to Ukraine.
AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸@joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 4w agoJust more horrors. Cops kill another dog while searching for someone not even at the home they were at. A highly trained service dog was not a threat to police but that doesn't matter, they killed her anyway. Why do cops do this? Less paperwork then killing people? www.wsbtv.com/news/local/c...
"Our current leaders talk endlessly about American exceptionalism, while turning us into an unexceptional country presided over by thuggish apparatchiks." www.thebulwark.com/p/an-america...
An American Life Cut Short
ICE ended Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s American Dream.
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Got a lot of reposts for antisemitism thoughts this morning but I’m not a professional Jew. I am a professional immigration analyst. And as a professional: pay attention to this, it’s important. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Is the Trump Administration Slow-Walking DACA to Death?
USCIS doesn’t have to deny applications to derail lives—it can just stop deciding in a timely manner.
open.substack.com
The “Broadview Six” are asking a judge to take the extraordinary step of appointing a special counsel to investigate — and possibly prosecute — Justice Department officials in Chicago and Washington D.C. for criminal contempt. NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'Broadview 6' want special counsel to probe Boutros' office, Trump's Justice Department for criminal contempt
They made their request to U.S. District Judge April Perry, who once served as a federal prosecutor in Chicago and even handled a significant criminal contempt case herself. She discovered apparent pr...
chicago.suntimes.com
I'd love to know how much taxpayer money was paid for legal fees of absolutely bullshit lawsuits the Trump administration launched.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: DOJ is trying to pull a last-minute move to keep Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center, filing a notice of appeal and motion to stay late Thursday night ahead of the Friday, June 12, compliance deadline. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas. This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.
Forget about Hegseth. This is the real D-Day celebration right here.
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2mo agoD-Day commemoration at Omaha Beach, June 6, 2024. A D-Day veteran to Ukrainian President Zelensky: “You’re a savior of the people. My hero.” Zelensky: “No, no, you saved Europe. You are our hero.”
Fellow Mainers. You don't have to settle. Check out Andrea LaFlamme.
Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 2mo ago🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Feel free to send them to my website or send them this interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg51... I also have two more virtual town halls coming up. One on Friday at 6pm and one on Sunday at 9am. Folks can sign up using their email and the calendar on my homepage.
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
@weissmann.substack.com my good friend Greg (we will be seeing you in Highlands in July) just went to a bookstore to get a copy of your book. It was sold out!
This is like saying people were "lifted" off of cancer because they died
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "Under our leadership, 5 million people have been lifted off food stamps just in a short period of time"
Kilmar Abrego Garcia‘s indictment must be DISMISSED for vindictive prosecution, a federal judge just ruled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
Disbar every lawyer who had anything to do with crafting, drafting, approving, and signing off on this most corrupt action ever to disgrace our federal government m, and then prosecute everyone into oblivion
Justice Dept. Announces $1.8 Billion Fund in Settling I.R.S. Suit
nytimes.com
It’s actually very difficult to keep a distance from all this rather than be hardened to it — to remind yourself this man is a demented freak, that his followers are shitbird cultists, that his aims and the aims of his supporters are un-American and evil.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump is posting absolutely deranged shit on social media this morning ahead of departing for China today. Get a load of this stuff.
