White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

As an employment lawyer, I can say that only dirt bags refuse to pay their employees. Pay your employees Dirt Bag Donald!!

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What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

I live in Chicago. ICE and its various manifestations is a reckless, inhuman way to "produce content." I'm a 75-year-old white guy who says get the hell out of here. www.economist.com/united-state...

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Pam Bondi is so hostile, angry, and rude, today.

I think it must be getting harder and harder to lie.

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

Court blocks Jack Smith’s access to many of Rep. Scott Perry’s contacts about 2020 election The appeals panel concluded that prosecutors’ effort to access cellphone communications with colleagues officials violated the lawmaker's constitutional immunity.

By the way, we knew Jack Smith subpoenaed republican phone records a few years ago. www.politico.com/news/2023/09...

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

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SCHIFF: Was it true when the White House press secretary denied that Homan took the money?

BONDI: I was not in office, I was not confirmed, when that was handled


SCHIFF: Did he take the money?

BONDI: That happened prior to my confirmation

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

TRUMP: “We’re negotiating with the Democrats on health care”

SCHUMER: “not true”🤔

#TrumpShutdown

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Dems must say: No troops, or no shutdown deal | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, billionaire saved by Penn wants to wreck it.

No troops, or no deal to reopen the government

With masked goons running wild in Chicago and the president murdering people on boats, Democrats must seize the shutdown crisis as an opportunity to wage the fight against fascism we need to happen NOW

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HOLY SH*T.

There it is.

Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

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Epstein Files are Trump’s kryptonite. He is terrified of releasing them. Should be in the news every single day.

Notice her non-answer.

This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

It is men that commit 93% of violent crimes, 95% of murders, 97% of s3xual assaults, 90% of armed robberies, and 98% of mass shootings.

It’s all men. Live a life separate from your natural predator.

This is exactly what the right wants— our silence.

They want us afraid and to stop speaking up, to check out, to shut up about politics. We can’t give them that. Not now. Not ever.

Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

🇺🇦🇺🇳

Q: Should people expect the National Guard and the military in their streets over the next 3.5 years?

STEPHEN MILLER: *changes topic*

Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada. A spirits industry group says spirits exports to Canada plunged 85% earlier this year.

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada, where their exports plunged 85% earlier this year — topping broad declines in key international markets amid global trade tensions, a spirits industry group said Monday.

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”