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Dad, Husband, Lawyer (not yours), Catholic. Opposed to Trump’s cruelty and lawlessness.
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I’m beginning to suspect that some people don’t understand the concept of an Article III judge

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Breaking addition to tonight's story:

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Oh my. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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The word “acting” does not appear in the story — but that’s what Patel will be. These 3345(a)(2) (using a PAS for another agency) actings — Rubio, Bessent, Patel — are higher than in the past for these top roles.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Distinguished Discoverer/FBI Director/Acting ATF Director/Henchman

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FBI Director Kash Patel expected to also be named head of ATF, three sources tell me and @yamiche.bsky.social.

submitted 3 hours ago • 35 comments

Federal employees are receiving this notice from OPM and being told that failure to respond means you are resigning. Lol

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Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

submitted 5 hours ago • 35 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 7 hours ago • 478 comments

May he feel God’s love surrounding him.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

No security guarantee, just demanding their resources. What have we become? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.

submitted 12 hours ago • 67 comments

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

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Much media coverage: These Pentagon moves are unusual but Trump's within his rights and wants supporters of his America First agenda. The truth: How is removing the JAGs relevant to any agenda? New, Hegseth-selected JAGs are needed for total loyalty to Trump and finding all his orders lawful.

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Yet another scoop from @Reinlwapo and the @washingtonpost: New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him wapo.st/41qBKwR

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I am fine with the US negotiating to get access to rare earth minerals anywhere in the world ... through willing exchange and investment. Not by duress. Not as loot gained by carving up a people's freedom.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine and upends US foreign policy

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The people who watch Fox News heard from purportedly serious national security conservatives over and over for the past eight years that “actually, Trump was tougher on Russia than Democrats”; they heard anti-Ukraine propaganda, but not exclusively. They may be more surprised than one might expect.

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Our new FBI Director sells a supplement that “detoxes other people’s vaccines out of your body.” Sure. Why not.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

The last two paragraphs.

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Staffing the security apparatus and justice department with loyalists and purging non loyal elements is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It’s not a “shake up”; it’s power consolidation.

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You can hear the jackboot hit the ground

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 1 day ago • 733 comments

Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Extortion.

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Someone had fun writing this brief

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Looks like Trump has fired Gen CQ Brown, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

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MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Whoa, would not have expected this in eastern Oregon.

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NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 1 day ago • 344 comments

Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

Now using the royal “we”

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How it started. How it’s going

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BREAKING: Judge lifts order halting @USAID firings, allows Trump administration to proceed with plans to recall most personnel including abroad. Judge Carl Nichols, Trump appointee, says claims of public interest in the case are in profound tension ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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Update on Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio’s press conference at the US Capitol…

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