schmette.bsky.social

@schmette.bsky.social

Bücherwurm. Bouquineuse. Librorum amans. Chess Fencing Shotokan. Penn 📎 Lifelong student of Critical Thinking. From a family Fighting for Freedom since the Seven Years War. From Lenni Lenape Land to Maricopa Land. Die hard Philly sports teams fan!

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

If you have ever had doubts about the character and morals of Donald Trump, Trump is actually willing to prosecute and imprison a man for vandalism even after he was shown mountains of evidence proving otherwise because he refuses to admit he was wrong.

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

The election EO appeal is about whether the fedl gov’t can change the rules of voting shortly before the midterms & whether SCOTUS will apply its own precedent consistently. Understanding the arguments is essential to understanding the outcome, so I parse them here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump's Executive Order on Voting: Blue State Attorneys General, and Some Retired Judges, Weigh In

Sunday night in The Week Ahead post, we discussed the Trump administration’s effort to push ahead with implementation of an executive order that would give the federal government greater control over ...

open.substack.com

The parties would work on clearing naval mines from the median lane of the strait within 30 days. After the median lane is cleared, it would be used for inbound and outbound traffic under the terms of a permanent arrangement to be negotiated between Oman and Iran.-Axios

All outbound traffic through the strait and into the Arabian Sea would go in a southern lane through Omani waters, in coordination with Iran. No tolls or fees would be charged during the 60-day period.

According to two regional sources, the deal under discussion sets up a 60-day temporary arrangement between Oman and Iran in the Hormuz strait, which could be extended. All inbound traffic of ships through the strait and into the Gulf would go in a northern lane through Iranian waters.

Like rats from a sinking ship: “Last month, Pirro offered prosecutors in her office a $25,000 retention bonus to stay for the next two years, according to people familiar with the matter.” The office is irredeemably screwed up and will stay that way as long as she’s in charge

Trump, Hegseth, and the GOP have used up almost ALL of America's long-range missiles & accomplished NOTHING...except closing the Strait of Hormuz, killing civilians, harming our troops, hurting the American economy, and increasing prices for average Americans. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-war-w...

Trump’s Staggering Missile Crisis Revealed

The president’s war has the Pentagon running out of money, ideas, and now even the weapons he would need to defend the U.S. from attack.

thedailybeast.com