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“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” - George Orwell 1984 Psalm 109 is my heartfelt prayer for all in the current Administration.

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"Turn to the archives".

It's what you do when you run out of ideas. 🤷

10.10.2025 22:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You’d best start believin‘ in fascist takeovers, my friend. You’re in one.

10.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Means you have a “reputation”.

10.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Expose the files & expose many, many powerful men. This is a blackmail Rosetta Stone, the key to control the elites.

Yeah, its release has consequences for those named, but will also render its power over those same men obsolete.

THAT is what they’re protecting. We already KNOW DJT is a POS!

10.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re kidding, right?

First off, trump doesn’t GET to accuse anyone of anything. That‘s a DOJ function meant to be based on facts & investigations prioritized at a national level. James’ office prosecuted trump b/c his organization egregiously committed fraud for many years.

JFC, STOP IT! PLEASE!

10.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The fact that the entire case revolves around prosecution for a possible typo on a single form that was clearly and repeatedly corrected is way beyond ironic.

10.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sweet dogs, lovely dogs
Let you in and out again
Why can’t you stay put?
#haiku

10.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This keeps getting framed as protecting trump. If that was the only goal, they’d just burn the thing on the WH lawn in front of everyone and say “prove it”.

This has many, many powerful people’s names, including MoC. They need it to exist to keep leverage. Once it is exposed, they lose control.

10.10.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This message should be read in its entirety from every pulpit at every Mass in every Parish in the world this weekend.

10.10.2025 00:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is gorgeous. Context?

10.10.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

09.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 3678    🔁 1879    💬 167    📌 125

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

09.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 1575    🔁 429    💬 69    📌 31

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

09.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 1919    🔁 574    💬 67    📌 23

Is there a reason that the three sane members of SCOTUS are not more vocal about the terrible things their body is doing? At a certain point decorum is an impediment to justice.

09.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Congress ever returns to session this stuff needs to be front and center. Getting a vote on articles of impeachment is at least as important as more evidence he abuses children.

09.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Time to go home, Eddie.

09.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Time to go home, Eddie.

09.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Efforts to block release are more likely because of who else is on it. Once out, the leverage on the powerful is gone. It’s the lynchpin of this entire coup.

09.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This person needs to be authorized by the speaker.

08.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
07.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

07.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 2660    🔁 626    💬 117    📌 30

It’s a non-comploment.

Like saying a burst dam is transformative to the towns downstream.

07.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

06.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 5609    🔁 1570    💬 243    📌 86
Standing in for Speaker Johnson, Rep. Virginia Foxx R-NC refuses to recognize Rep. Jim McGovern D-MA and quickly
gavels the House out of session until
Wednesday
• • McGovern wanted to raise questions about the refusal of Republicans to swear in Rep.- elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ, who was elected
to the House almost 2 weeks ago

Standing in for Speaker Johnson, Rep. Virginia Foxx R-NC refuses to recognize Rep. Jim McGovern D-MA and quickly gavels the House out of session until Wednesday • • McGovern wanted to raise questions about the refusal of Republicans to swear in Rep.- elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ, who was elected to the House almost 2 weeks ago

Thanks, @repmcgovern.bsky.social

You are always working for us.

07.10.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The hadn’t reckoned on an amphibious assault.

06.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They hadn’t reckoned on an amphibious assault.

06.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 36    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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You best start believin‘ in civil wars, Ms Jonson, you’re in one.

06.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thing about the Epstein files is that there ARE NO Epstein files anymore. It wasn’t just PINO named in them, but a whole host of powerful people.

A discharge petition to release them will only expose that they were destroyed (or all official copies accessible from known sources were destroyed).

05.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141
F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws
of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to
ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the
President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law
PAGE 22 - OPINION AND ORDER
Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56
Filed 10/04/25
Page 23 of 31
within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this
Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to
federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal
law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination
was simply untethered to the facts.
c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion
Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141 F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law PAGE 22 - OPINION AND ORDER Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56 Filed 10/04/25 Page 23 of 31 within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination was simply untethered to the facts. c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

05.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 5524    🔁 1696    💬 78    📌 75

What a fruckin’ hit piece.
* Portland is 1/10 the size of NYS (barely larger than Staten Island)
* Long term problems can only be answered with long term solutions.
* Housing is the ONLY solution to homelessness
* People, not investors, create every.single.job.

04.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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