Pam Bondi wasn't going to answer any questions today. We all knew that in advance. People can watch the hearing if they want to, but the idea that this is an Attorney General testifying before Congress is laughable. This is just a Trump personal lawyer putting on a performance for her client on TV.
07.10.2025 15:53 β π 1180 π 295 π¬ 45 π 15
He stopped talking.
07.10.2025 16:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I have never in my life seen congressional hearings like I have recently. No answers, screaming over someone asking questions, and just lying about things we have seen with our own eyes.
07.10.2025 16:12 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The DOJ no longer exists
It is now the Department of Corruption
I remember when the DOJ was supposed to be unbiased law enforcement and insulated from political pressure.
Not Bondi
07.10.2025 14:14 β π 239 π 107 π¬ 24 π 7
Coons: βThe department cut hundreds of grants totaling hundreds of millions of dollarsβ¦This was literally defunding the policeβ¦Can you assure us this process is going to be fixed going forward, so better decisions are made at the start and not just after appeals?β
07.10.2025 15:56 β π 118 π 30 π¬ 5 π 2
WATCH: @SpeakerJohnson obediently falls in line with Trump & @russvought to say federal workers may NOT be legally entitled to back pay - contradicting HIS OWN WEBSITEπ€
#TrumpShutdown
07.10.2025 15:59 β π 354 π 123 π¬ 29 π 12
Jack Smith faces arrest calls over βArctic Frostβ investigation
Documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee indicate the FBI monitored eight Republican senators.
Iβll go LIVE on Substack at 5p ET to discuss calls to arrest Jack Smith over his subpoena for phone records of Congress members: substack.com/@thefrankfig... www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-f...
07.10.2025 16:01 β π 76 π 37 π¬ 11 π 0
MAGA Turns on Trumpβs Top Lawyer
Todd Blanche discovers that your place is never totally secure in the modern conservative movement.
"No oneβs position inside the MAGA movement is ever fully secure. And that holds particularly true for those who serve in Trumpβs Justice Department." Todd Blanche's turn: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-turns...
07.10.2025 16:00 β π 105 π 30 π¬ 7 π 2
Pam Bondi should stop talking about other people refusing to release Epstein files...and release the Epstein files, as she promised to.
07.10.2025 14:10 β π 15 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
Trump, Miller, and Hegseth are busy breaking the morale of the US military, sending US troops against their neighbors, and turning the USMC 22nd MEU into a pseudo DEA. Meanwhile, China makes moves.
05.10.2025 01:13 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Pam Bondi refuses to say whether the White House consulted her before deploying the National Guard to U.S. cities.
07.10.2025 14:06 β π 958 π 302 π¬ 66 π 21
Iβm in Chicago where Trump continues his push for the largest mass deportation campaign in American history and to send federal troops to U.S. cities β and local leaders and civilians continue to push back.
07.10.2025 14:04 β π 217 π 79 π¬ 10 π 2
Green power is sometimes the cheapest power β despite what Trump says
The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICOβs analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...
Green power is sometimes the cheapest power β despite what Trump says.
The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but our analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power costs.
07.10.2025 13:56 β π 121 π 52 π¬ 8 π 1
Ohh
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
07.10.2025 13:43 β π 1049 π 410 π¬ 60 π 35
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do β hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
06.10.2025 20:57 β π 13159 π 5452 π¬ 421 π 302
Good morning everyone
Good morning California
Ballots are out !!
Vote YES on PROP 50
The special election is November 4th but early voting is underway NOW
Ballots mailed
Vote now and tell your neighbors and friends
Our Country thanks you!
VOTE YES ON PROP 50
07.10.2025 13:40 β π 338 π 178 π¬ 9 π 9
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
06.10.2025 22:49 β π 26889 π 12878 π¬ 559 π 529
Yes. Inaction has terrible outcomes.
06.10.2025 20:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
What Miller's doing is as old as this country: dividing people by race and trying to set them on one another, claiming "those people are taking your jobs."
06.10.2025 19:29 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
"Ms Brooks, who is black,... repeatedly asked officers why she was being arrested, and pointed out her citizenship...When she continued to object to her arrest, an officer knocked her to the ground, removed the zip-ties and replaced them with handcuffs" from The Economist today
06.10.2025 19:27 β π 67 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0
The mental gymnastics is staggering with these lies and bs propaganda. Just admit you want us all to go broke and die.
06.10.2025 18:31 β π 20 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.
Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and VelΓ‘zquez.
ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.
A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.
We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.
06.10.2025 18:38 β π 1333 π 427 π¬ 33 π 7
That immigration agent who threw a woman to the ground, prompting DHS to declare his conduct "unacceptable"?
He's back at the courthouse.
And DHS still won't tell us his name.
06.10.2025 18:39 β π 505 π 208 π¬ 21 π 5
CENSORED: βThey refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.β
Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trumpβs unconstitutional military incursions into US cities.
Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...
06.10.2025 19:37 β π 3136 π 1516 π¬ 107 π 82
Trump is not tough on crime. Moving law enforcement from areas they are experts at to performative bs makes us less safe
And why does Trump want more child trafficking for sexual exploitation?
06.10.2025 17:55 β π 49 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
One of Trump's dumbest lies: He predicted bin Laden's 9/11 attack. I wrote about this 10 years ago!!!
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
06.10.2025 17:26 β π 331 π 91 π¬ 37 π 8
Q: βA federal judge over the weekend, that the president had appointed to the bench in his first term in office, basically argued that he could not deploy other states' National Guards to Portland.β
Leavitt: βI think her opinion is untethered in reality and in the law.β
06.10.2025 17:55 β π 193 π 49 π¬ 47 π 7
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