@bethymc.bsky.social
I probably read it 20+ times over the years. I love her voice. And the potatoes recipes!
17.11.2025 10:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
20.10.2025 21:44 β π 3801 π 1984 π¬ 180 π 203
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 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. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. "
But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.
Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
Headline from the New York Times, 1939: βGoebbels ends careers of five βAryanβ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.β
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
18.09.2025 13:58 β π 5624 π 2600 π¬ 55 π 148JFC
03.09.2025 00:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
14.08.2025 17:30 β π 7689 π 2911 π¬ 601 π 537
Yeah more violent than Baghdad. These morons...
11.08.2025 15:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt let this die. Keep elevating this.
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21.07.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Remains to be seenβ¦.if they are torn down or not
But someone has plastered βno kings since 1776β on poles along route of tomorrowβs military parade here in DC
You can see one here (blue sign)
In one week. Be there or be ruled. Nokings.org
07.06.2025 15:39 β π 1068 π 449 π¬ 122 π 37
Ben Schrader β’ 3rd+ Former Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney' 2w β’ + Follow Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I've ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I wish all of my colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville and across the Department the best as they seek to do justice on behalf of the American people. 176 35 comments β’ 3 reposts
Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn:
βEarlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resignedβ¦β
We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol.
Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.
W/ @texastribune.org⬠@cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga
βNo children are dying on my watch,β said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubioβs actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
"This is what we were voting for!"
From a friend in academia:
>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<
Great work.
Recognized you from Metafilter and liked a post I happened to see starting out on bsky. I need to try a book!
15.05.2025 00:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh sweet lord. Trump at Kennedy Center.Board meeting: "At other points during the meeting, Trump shared personal stories and anecdotes, including about the first time he saw βCatsβ and which members of the cast he found attractive."
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints.
youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...
Also no Post article about their refusal to run the "fire musk" ads
18.02.2025 12:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yay Cassandra!!!!
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