Jackie Banyasz

HE is making the country in his image, weak and bloated

On this day in 1763, due in part to Pontiac's resistance, the King of Britain issued the Royal Proclamation placing certain limits on westward colonial expansion in North America. This enraged proto-Americans and was one of the causes of the American Revolution (freedom to colonize more quickly).

Watching Pam Bondi be questioned by the Senate is the stuff of nightmares. That woman should lose her law license and she should be sent to prison for corruption. She is not running the DOJ as an independent agency. She is running it as the felon's personal attorneys. #BondiforPrison #Trumptreason

What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

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Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s leading mapmaker took the stand Tuesday in a federal hearing to determine whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in the 2026 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Utah GOP passed a congressional map, in response to a court ruling forcing them, that makes 2 of the state's 4 ruby red districts much tighter — though neither of them leans blue as the spirit of the ruling asked for.

One should be quite competitive next year, the other in a (very) blue wave.

FOLKS look at this new share button on the @lpm.org site...

I’d love MAGA to explain to me why they think it’s reasonable to abduct, kidnap, abuse, assault, torture and traffic immigrants for working their asses off in jobs no one else wants just to feed their families whilst simultaneously taking away human jobs to replace them with AI.

The shutdown isn’t just about healthcare - it’s also about Congress reining in the president. We’re going to have a fight, so let’s have it now.

Think about this: at nearly the same time, Pam Bondi was refusing to answer whether the FBI had images of Trump and young girls obtained from Jeffrey Epstein’s safe, and Mike Johnson was refusing to answer when he would swear in Adelita Grijalva, who would be the 218th vote for the Epstein petition.

Wise words and hope. Thank you, Jane Goodall.

Thousands of Karens Karened so Pam could Pam.

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

So...Felony?

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You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates?

Look around, friends.

Lynching Is Still Happening in America A Case They Tried to Close in an Hour

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Man she’s in his head

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'

Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

~ open letter signed by 282 former officials, obtained by MSNBC ..

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This will become an iconic photo when future generations look back on this time in our history.

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

I want to correct error I made .I wrote that Congress has to vote after a shutdown to restore pay of furloughed workers. That was true in my time in office which ended in 2017. But a law was passed in 2019 to ensure federal workers all get paid after shutdown.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."