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BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

= POLITICO By DANIEL LIPPMAN 10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT f In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum). The spelling...

U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 3
"[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,...."
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Just so everyone is crystal-clear, this is NOT related to the government funding because the USPTO is self-funded.

McCarthyism and the Red Scare | Miller Center The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a ser...

As we are in the early stages of the Third Red Scare, we can look to the past for learnings on effective resistance: An example.

"Instead of going right at McCarthy, Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to undercut and stymie the senator and his attacks."

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The love of wicked men converts to fear,
That fear to hate

Worth reposting

MAGA: The new Know-Nothing Party.

Tyranny, tyranny I say.

Oh fuck! The GOVERNMENT has me in their sights. Damn you Bill of Rights.

Frog and Toad look out over Toad's garden. Nothing yet is growing in the dirt. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

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2/ He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

1/ I am looking at the Declaration of Independence, and these transgressions by the tyrant seem relevant today.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life, it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line
The man come and take you away
For What It's Worth
by Buffalo Springfield

To paraphrase the bard

And a month, and a month, and a month
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Serious question: Are presidential DMs archived?

7 Speculative Memoirs Featuring Monsters - Electric Literature These hybrid books blur the lines between personal examination, cultural criticism, and modern mythmaking

Speculative nonfiction that transforms the frustrations of our world into the wonders of what could be.

Trump says US struck another Venezuelan drug vessel, killing three President Donald Trump says the US military carried out a strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel that had been on its way to the United States.

Well, it's better than invading Grenada to change the narrative, but still, extra-judicial killings are sub-optimal.

President Donald Trump says the US military carried out a strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel that had been on its way to the United States.
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You know the fans of Firefly.

#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

A regular Burr v Hamilton thing.

That Voodoo you do so well undoes the Dodgers.

How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

September 5, 2025 Today President Donald J.

"[I]n fact, the stated mission of the Department of Defense is 'to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.'"

September 5, 2025
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This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.

I guess two things could be true at the same time, but....

Norwegian Nobel Committee on behalf of the estate of Alfred Nobel please note. Thank you

"The use of lethal force in this attack appears gratuitous and the administration has not explained why law enforcement tools were inadequate to address the situation."