romansmith.bsky.social
Explorer. Blue (just like my dress.) Despise MAGAts. Live in Hollywood, CA. romanscalifornia.com
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I hope he never, ever smiles again
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Nancy Mace belongs in Siberia
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Agree 100% with this
Am still royally pissed at John Roberts over Immunity, killing VRA, Citizens United...much more
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You're welcome 👍
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Good piece, Brandi, thx! 👍
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Thx
That's sort of backwards for me...I don't research anything so much as I take notes of what I see
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MIT followed up with a similar rebuke
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No question that he used both legal and illegal methods to cheat...2016 was out in the open, 2024 more, 'under the radar'
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Don
t really don't have a, 'first draft'...I do invoke lots of shortcuts and such, but 98% is reading and summarizing, so...
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John Roberts personally ensured P45 didn't end up in jail
And he's still providing P47 cover.
Imagine if tens of millions hadn't voted for that brainless orange piece of s*** 😡
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"Your Honor, we know there are least 2K that xxx, and there are about 5K more we haven't even checked"
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Thank you! 😊
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Courts don't have armies, but they have the power to:
1) throw contemnors in jail cells
2) issue sanctions to lawyers (end their careers, if they want)
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I won't/wouldn't defend SCOTUS
If SCOTUS had said, 'move quickly', P47 would go slow (define 'quick') If they had said, 'immediately', P47 could say, "we're trying, but laws in El Salvador; besides, define 'immediately'"
If P47's goal is to say, '🖕' to SCOTUS, their specific words wouldn't matter
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Likely won't stop unless judges start jailing people for contempt
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Thx Brandi...every single person in the P47 admin is a despicable bastard, especially Stephen Miller. He needs to be bottom guy with an asphalt paver.
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (22/22)
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- Hungary: passed amendment that bans LGBT public events
- Dominican nightclub disaster: death toll now 231
Sudanese civil war
- over 12M have now been displaced
- 8.6M have been displaced w/in Sudan
- 3.8M have left the country
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (21/22)
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DEI
- Target: 10 weeks ago, caved to P47 and ditched DEI
- Target: 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines
- Costco: Jan 23, shareholder vote to keep DEI (98-2)
- Costco: 15th straight week of foot traffic gains
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (20/22)
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Plane crash near Hudson, NY
- happened yesterday; crashed into a field
- was headed to Columbia County Airport in Hudson
- killed six people aboard
- included Karenna Groff, 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (19/22)
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Zuckerberg
- was at P47's inauguration
- has been to WH three times in 2025
- has lots of enemies in P47 admin
- MAGAts in admin blame him for P47 losing in 2020
- MAGATs turning P47 against him
- testified in court today, re FTC action
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (18/22)
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- DOJ charged Jamison Wagner (NM) w/ Telsa attacks
- CIA Dir Ratcliffe: deleted all SignalGate texts
EU
- burner phones, basic laptops to US-bound staff
- fear is espionage when staff gets to US
- steps previously only done w/ China
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (17/22)
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Official bird site Team Elmo acct
- posted a Tesla/Cybertruck promotional video
- later deleted the video
Shapiro arsonist
- planned to beat him w/ a sledgehammer
- previously charged with assaulting wife and kids
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (16/22)
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Broken tariff collection system
- last week, we learned tariff system broken
- CBP unable to change amts to be collected
- importers were able to collect goods, no extra tariffs
- tariffs to be collected later
- no sign system yet fixed
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (15/22)
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JD Vance
- tried to pick up CGP Natl Championship trophy
- fumbled, and the trophy broke
- posted video to the bird site, w/ commentary
- "I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get..."
- "the trophy so I decided to break it"
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (14/22)
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Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR)
- helps victims of sexual assault in the military
- mental/phys healthcare, advocacy, legal assistance
- Hegseth: preparing to eliminate the program
- is in response to P47, 'no more DEI'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (13/22)
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HHS
- has been hit heavily by Team Elmo RIFs
- tech /IT support has taken a big hit
- if bleeding not stopped soon, HHS could collapse
- HHS: 'critical IT and cybersecurity remains staffed'
- HHS: 'HHS serves people, not bureaucracy'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (12/22)
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- MIT: issues public letter taking similar stance/Harvard
- P47: ripping up more of the Rose Garden for concrete
- P47: 'one of my favorite shows ever...the Masters'
- P47: cuts high-speed rail funding bw Dallas/Houston
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (11/22)
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Harvard, p2
- upon rejection, P47 started yanking funds
- 'paused' $2.2B in multi-year grants
- 'paused' $60M in multi-year contracts
- Harvard has recd extensive positive coverage today
- even words from enemies have been positive
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (10/22)
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Harvard, p1
- was being extorted by P47 for $9B; declined
- won't, 'negotiate independence/constitutional rights'
- can't, 'allow itself to be taken over by fed govt'
- 'open to dialogue'
- 'demands beyond lawful authority of this admin'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (9/22)
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P47, re Ukraine
- blames millions of deaths on Zelenskyy and Biden
- says Zelenskyy, 'always looking to purchase missiles'
- blames Zelenskyy for starting the war
- 'don't start a war against somebody 20x your size'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (8/22)
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P47 and Nayib Bukele, p2
- Bukele intonated US overrun with criminal gangs
- P47 agreed w/ Bukele, blaming everything on Biden
- lots of joking about sending US citizens to El Salvador
- P47: 'if they are criminals...I'm all for it'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (7/22)
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P47 and Nayib Bukele, p1
- spray at WH
- was Mutual Dictator Admiration Day at WH
- topic of SCOTUS + Abrego Garcia came up
- SCOTUS ruling mischaracterized, esp by Stephen Miller
- they played 'pass the buck', re Abrego Garcia return
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (6/22)
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Judge McFadden
- ordered P47 to stop blocking AP from press events
- AP was blocked from WH spray w/ Bukele today
Judge Kennelly
- Dept/Labor may not require grantees to certify DEI reqs
- previously-issued TRO extended
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (5/22)
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Judge Indira Talwani (CHNV parole)
- CHNV: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela
- idea: parole revocation, then deportation
- "obvious legal error"
- 'termination must attend to...reasons for parole'
- TRO issued
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (4/22)
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Judge Sessions (Mohsen Mahdawi)
- Mohsen Mahdawi arrested by ICE earlier in the day
- Mahdawi took part in protests at Columbia Univ
- co-founded Palestinian Student Union w/ M Khalil
- 'do not move Mahdawi out of the state'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (3/22)
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Judge Xinis
- daily update of Abrego Garcia was filed
- update was filed more than an hour late
- 'Abrego Garcia no longer eligible for w/holding/removal'
- 'DHS...no authority to forcibly extract from sovereign'
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On This Day (Apr 14) in 2025 (2/22)
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US Markets today
- Dow Jones: +312.08 (0.78%); now 40,524.79
- NASDAQ: +107.03 (0.64%); now 16,831.48
- S&P 500: +42.61 (0.79%); now 5,405.97
- Russell 2000: +20.67 (1.11%); now 1,880.88
- Tesla: +0.040 (0.016%); now 252.35
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Of course they don't realize that 🤷♀️
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Definitely there already.
The Abrego Garcia situation is f***ing pathetic
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I wish Virginia Foxx would've accidentally fallen at a pig farm a few decades ago, and the pigs had been hungry as hell
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Yup
At least, is broken where GOP controls it.
GOP hasn't had a legit election win since Ike, and I do include 2024
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Big govt buts what they need from big corporations.
A general definition of fascism is, 'unhealthy (close) relationship bw govt and corporations'; at its worse, govt exerts some control of corporations (just like P47 is extorting law firms), and corporations exert govt control (like writing regs) ☹️
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Thx for going! 👍
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That they are fighting back so hard should scare the crap out of everybody
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Good point 🤷♀️
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The protests wouldn't stop