Norm Ornstein

Now we will see if Tom Homan will keep his word and bring charges against these sadistic agents. Yeah, right.

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

Sure they are: "don't have to pay for healthcare if you die sooner".

Back in the day, when Eisen was the ethics person in the Obama White House, people used to refer to us as “The Ethical Norms.” but I like your suggestion better!

@normornstein.bsky.social
Does anybody call you “Constitutional Norm”?
If not, someone should.
Like your superhero alter ego.
Or a podcast with you and Norm Eisen, “The Constitutional Norms”.

A beta test for November. Chilling

Given the deep investigations of the 2020 elections generally and Fulton County, Georgia, in particular, it is highly unlikely that the new FBI investigation (whose warrant was curiously sought by a U.S. attorney in Missouri, not Georgia or even Washington, D.C.) will amount to anything. So what was it really about? One tipoff is the curious appearance during the FBI raid of Fulton County’s election offices of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, who is known to peddle conspiracy theories herself. Portraying this raid as part of a national security effort is in line with the musings of Cleta Mitchell, a Trump conspiracy-theory ally who had been on Trump’s call with Raffensperger. Back in September, Mitchell, on a call with fellow election deniers, suggested that Trump could declare a “national sovereignty crisis” in a bid to take over the midterm elections. Trump has no power over the conduct of federal elections, which are left in the hands of the states, a point numerous courts have made recently in striking down parts of an August Trump executive order purporting to make voting harder. But that doesn’t mean he won’t try. Trump has expressed regret that he did not seize voting machines in 2020. So this threat for 2026 (and 2028) is real.

My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not."
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They’re gonna stuff ballot boxes from the past as a rationale to take control of ballot boxes in the future.

I need people to take seriously the idea that the admin is going to act on this with force. Remember how “laughable” (heinous) the Haitian rumors were? Look at what DHS has planned. Believe them when they tell you what they want to do.

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

The most inflammatory rhetoric by far in all of this on TV and social media has come from Tom Homan, Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I am happy for people in Maine if this is true. ALSO, this suggests that the administration is unleashing ICE in blue cities and states as punishment for political reasons. Collins is up for re-election and they need her to keep their control of the Senate. This is GROTESQUE.

I cannot stop listening to this heartfelt tribute and anthem. Thank you, Bruce!

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My father’s family was from Ft William Ontario. Home to the uber-talented Paul Shaffer. As a kid, after school, he would go over to my aunt and uncle’s house, Yhettie and Mendy Helper. He wrote about them in his memoir. I saw him a couple years back & he told me he still keeps up with my cousins.

Sadly, no. She was from Saskatchewan, but I will tell you two other interesting stories. We had a different band that performed at our high school dances. Chad Allan and the Expressions led by Randy Bachman. Who became the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. 1

They do not have that right. This is authoritarian action in advance of doing it more broadly to steal the midterms.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

And Shirley Caldwell who became Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton. And Fred Penner, a celebrated childrens’ singer-songwriter. Steinberg was a couple of years older.

He’s not! I actually went to high school with him in Winnipeg, a long story about the years I spent in Canada. My father was originally Canadian and we left Minnesota for several years before we moved back.

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@jamie-stiehm.bsky.social on my home state

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Oh, gosh, Norm. Thank you doesn't seem quite correct in the circumstances but I truly appreciate this heart-stopping, gut-wrenching message from France, courtesy of you. And Lady Liberty was a gift from France, after all. The world gets it.

France's newspaper of record:

Don't understand how there's any debate abt it not being a legitimate shooting when Pretti was shot IN THE BACK the 1st and 2nd shots. After his gun had been removed. Then shot another 8 times while he was down.

How is it not an EXECUTION???

It’s about another one of our high school classmates, Clancy Smith