Sarah Posner

Impeach him. Call it Cassidy's Atonement.

once restored to an independent government & no longer persecuted they would soon wear away some of the asperities & peculiarities of their character, possibly in time become liberal Unitarian Christians for your Jehovah is our Jehovah & your God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob is our God."

To Mordecai Noah, March 1819 - "For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation. For as I believe the most enlighten’d men of it have participated in the ameliorations of the philosophy of the age,

Founders Online: From John Adams to Mordecai M. Noah, 15 March 1819 From John Adams to Mordecai M. Noah, 15 March 1819

Pence quotes John Adams and Elias Boudinot as "the Founders." First mistake. One or two founders don't stand in for all of them or state US policy.

The full Adams quote predicts convertion of Jews to unitarian Christianity. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

you all know the punchline

paging @wthrockmorton.bsky.social

“Embarrassed” Trump Attorney Wants to Investigate DOJ for Incompetence Todd Blanche is worried that unforced errors could affect two massive cases.

This is quite something

“Embarrassed” Trump Attorney Wants to Investigate DOJ for Incompetence newrepublic.com/post/203502/... via @newrepublic.com

This was the third time that Judge Xinis had ordered DOJ to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims, and it was the third time DOJ failed to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims.

Justice Department reverses course, now says full grand jury reviewed James Comey's indictment The turn of events comes a day after federal prosecutors admitted in court that not all grand jury members saw the final version of the indictment against the former FBI director.

Reminds me of a quote I heard about Lindsey Halligan: “There is a reason why we put baby AUSAs in misdemeanors…”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Elon Musk and his cronies turning up Grok's flatter-Elon-dial to 11 and then mass deleting a bunch of posts from Grok that say things like "Elon drinks piss/bottoms better than anyone on Earth" is the sort of poetic comedy that makes X the place to be

If a federal judge wrote in a decision that I was a lying liar who lied in testimony, I would be pretty fucking nervous.

The subpoena also asked for any contact Bish may have had with Scott Strauss — a former Justice Department prosecutor who was pushed out of his job after attempting to launch investigations of baseless voter-fraud conspiracy theories tied to the 2020 election, according to three other people familiar with the matter, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive subjects. It also sought any communication Bish had with Robert Bowes, a former banker who was a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the first Trump administration but does not currently appear to have any formal ties to Pulte or FHFA.

More details on the Bish subpoena situation

wapo.st/3JPz0Dw

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This notice of "correction" is very lawyered.

- No affidavit or declaration by counsel seeking to amend, clarify, or correct representations they made to the court during yesterday's hearing
- No assertion that the full grand jury actually saw the 2-count charging document
- Etc.

In reversal, DOJ says Comey indictment was reviewed by full grand jury In a reversal from what the DOJ represented in court Wednesday, prosecutors said Thursday that the full grand jury reviewed the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey.

AYFKM

(also attacking the judge in the NYPost and on X won't do what Halligan and DOJ are hoping, I suspect)

abcnews.go.com/US/doj-halli...

fuck yeah

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.

Most tellingly, Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters. As discussed further below, Bovino and DHS have represented that a rock hit Bovino in the helmet before he threw tear gas. See Doc. 190-1 at 1; Homeland Security (@DHSgov), X (Oct. 28, 2025 9:56 a.m.), https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1983186057798545573?s=46&t=4rUXTBt_W24m-uWR74DQ5A. Bovino was asked about this during his deposition, which took place over three days. On the first day, Bovino admitted that he was not hit with a rock until after he had deployed tear gas. Doc. 191-3 at 222:24–223:18. Bovino then offered a new justification for his use of chemical munitions, testifying that he only threw tear gas after he “had received a projectile, a rock,” which “almost hit” him. Doc. 191-3 at 222:24–223:18. Despite being presented with video evidence that did not show a rock thrown at him before he launched the first tear gas canister, Bovino nonetheless maintained his testimony throughout the first and second days of his deposition, id. at 225–27; Doc. 237 at 11–17. But on November 4, 2025, the final session of his deposition, Bovino admitted that he was again “mistaken” and that no rock was thrown at him before he deployed the first tear gas canister. Doc. 238 at 9:12–21 (“That white rock was . . . thrown at me, but that was after . . . I deployed less lethal means in chemical munitions.”); id. at 10:20–23 (Q. [Y]ou deployed the canisters, plural, before that black rock came along and you say hit you in the head, correct? A. Yes. Before the rock hit me in the head, yes.”).

For example, the incident on October 23 where DHS claimed that Bovino was hit in the head with a rock before he deployed tear gas at protestors?

That didn't happen. He fired tear gas and then AFTERWARDS, someone threw a rock. He went back and forth on this under oath, repeatedly changing his story.

icing, meet cake

Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing “cute” responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Rev. Black in the head. Doc. 191-3 at 162:21–165:17; Doc. 22-44 (Ex. 44 at 0:10–12, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). In another video shown to Bovino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, one of Plaintiffs’ declarants. Doc. 191-3 at 172:13–173:7; Doc. 22-45 (Ex. 45 at 0:19–30, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). But instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bovino denied it and instead stated that force was used against him.

When she gets to Gregory Bovino, she finds him completely uncredible, and says he was evasive or outright lied multiple times across three days of testimony — and not just any falsehoods, he was not telling the truth about multiple things which were all captured on video, making it all very obvious.

These are not the only inconsistencies and incredible representations in the record. While Defendants may argue that the Court identifies only minor inconsistencies, every minor inconsistency adds up, and at some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent. The Court discusses these inconsistencies in greater detail below, highlighting only a few here. For example, Hewson testified that people held shields with nails in them, Doc. 255 at 199:22–23, 200:19, 201:17–18, 202:10–11, but video demonstrates that at least some of these shields were merely pieces of cardboard, none of the shields had nails in them, and nothing warranted the aggression that the agents showed toward the protesters holding these shields,

Judge Ellis says all these errors, no matter how minor, add up. "[A]t some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that [DHS] represent[s]."

E.g., a top officer testified protestors had shields with nails in them; there were no nails and mostly it was carboard.

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This is legal jargon for "you and your lawyers are full of shit," which is really not something that should happen when the "you" is a federal government agent and the "your lawyers" are the federal government's lawyers.

An F.B.I. Trainee Hung a Pride Flag Near His Desk. He Says He Was Fired for It.

Under Trump, nooses and swastikas are in, pride flags are out

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Now, that wasn’t a question for a number of years. People have accused Trump of antisemitism, but it turns out that that was pretty much hot air. Donald Trump gave a very, very clear answer to this. He likes having Jews in his coalition. Trump turns out to have probably the most pro-Jewish administration that there’s ever been.

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York earlier this year. (Getty Images) BREAKING NEWS U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

On the left side, Yoram Hazony to Ross Douthat in the NYT, today. (www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...)

On the right side, a headline in the Washington Post, also today. (wapo.st/3Mbd9a6)

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...

This story is sourced to "two senior U.S. officials, two senior congressional aides and two former senior U.S. officials." That's a lot of people talking, I'm just saying

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I can't stop thinking about the South Park version of Vance