Eric Lisann

True. Garland was too afraid to get these records even though these Senators had been active in tying up the certification of Biden's win through various means. By the time Smith got them it was too late to do anything with them.

Judges are still reflexively giving the Trump administration the benefit of a presumption that the administration is acting in good faith and in compliance with the law when presented with these cases. Yet already and repeatedly, in CA and OR and DC, the trial judges found the WH overreached.

Indeed Trump, Noem, Hegseth, and Miller are agitating for this confrontation, trying to make it inevitable. They seek to force the citizenry, if it wishes to avoid confrontation, to submit by using only tactics Trump views as impotent, or to use violence which Trump hopes to gleefully crush.

Date Filed Oct 5, 2025 Description * CSV SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00 p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833- 990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980- 324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference. For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy) (Entered: 10/05/2025)

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Illinois law enforcement and prosecutors need to investigate this as they would a local police officer killing an unarmed person. Normally federal law enforcement and prosecutirs would investigate a killing like this by a federal officer, but that is a bygone era.

Farmers have demonstrated a deep need to believe in Trump, deeper even than their economic need to profit from their farms.

Another grift highlighted in that post is the underreported donation of immensely valuable public land in Dade County donated to Trump personally by the DeSantis administration in Florida.

"Trump is not trying to stop drug trafficking via his unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan boats - he is trying to get a piece of the action - just as he did in his casino days when cocaine was everywhere in Atlantic City but only being sold in his properties by mob affiliated partners."

'Bad Company' Another unprecedented week has come to pass in the United States.

“Trump appeared as unwell and unstable as any leader in history - my caution to you is that he has the potential to be much worse than any despots who have come before.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

One assumes this is a rhetorical question which is a devastating critique of the legitimacy of the Court.

Biden would have been entitled to lead a political campaign challenging Alito's fitness to sit in cases involving the administration. Garland had enough evidence to investigate Alito and Thomas for violations of federal law. But they were paralyzed by fear.

But Trump, Bessent et al insist they are helping US manufacturing.

Remember state officials can charge ICE personnel for assault when those personnel are not acting reasonably within the scope if their duties. Being a federal employee is not a license to kill,maim, recklessly endangers, or act like a violebt drunken buffoon.

Having Scott Jennings soewing hokum on a putative news network for an hour or more every day, as some sort of authority, is a thumb in the eye of every viewer of CNN.

Don't forget his gold-plated ballroom. Or retrofitting the private luxury 747 plane from Qatar. And so much more. All at taxpayer expense.

State run capitalism, just like China and Russia.

You can't legally fight a system where the supreme arbiter of what is "legal" systematically redefines this as whatever the fascist leader says it is.

This is exactly the type of event Noem has been seeking with her provocations.

"The Trump administration is violating the Hatch Act with reckless abandon, using taxpayer dollars to plaster partisan screeds on every government homepage that they can get their hands on.” Public Citizen

One of Trump's first acts was to fire the head of Hatch Act enforcement (OSC Chief).

US government information websites are now featuring Trump partisan political messaging during the shutdown:

Trying to cow locals into submission by degrading the true battle capabilities of these units by making them engage in domestic terrorism. Even worse the effort is meant to cow the Supreme Court into submission, and it probably will.

Out provoking a contemporary civil war. Enough poking and prodding and she'll get it.

Weeks before his death, you say?

No they are not catching on. They just want their Trump government bail outs, but eventually their land will be bought by oligarchs for cheap. The bail out may even require that they cede their land in a process that leads to oligarchic takeover. But they are still voting for Trump.

So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook. We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us. The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available. To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

Couldn't have said it plainer.To be fair, Nora O'Donnell was just one of many legacy media comfortably-placed access journalists who wanted to maintain their good standing in Trump World by pushing obvious Trump lies. Her own network bosses threw 60 Minutes under the bus, she knew what was expected.

That authority is delegated to the AG. Biden and Democrats nominated Merrick Garland for that role and he and his staff and holdovers failed to perform their duties and functions. Democrats did not hold anyone accountable for these failures, and legacy media helped them conceal this from the public.

Having trouble concealing he's always been a Trumper at heart.

That's why the farmers will keep on voting for Trump. They know he will pay them for nothing, and they don't care about the rest of it.

In fact much of legacy media was parroting his weak denials and themselves pushing those ploys as a phony counter narrative to Harris' warnings about Project 25. Shameful enabling of dangerous propaganda - legacy media journalists allowed themselves to become Trump state media.