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Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

This is illegal

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

"A co-equal branch to the executive could — as Ben Wittes jokes — write legislation like, “Nice presidential helicopter you have, we’ve defunded Marine One & you now have to drive everywhere until you start following the law again.”-GMG

Just dreams I have...
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So far, the only thing of note in this pathetic Pam Bondi judiciary hearing is that she has absolutely no fear of ever being held accountable for lying under oath to the Senate and the American people, or doing whatever is necessary to protect Trump and his rich pedophile friends.

Trump and Republicans up for reelection in 2026 are much weaker than they look right now. Rick Wilson has a message for Dems: do not budge one bit.

She raised an all time record for Kentucky politics (which, I guess, is the reason this is happening again).

Not once did she try to help down ballot races. Instead she blew threw over 90 million while she gave the KY Dems $700,000.

Outspent Mitch 2 to 1 and still lost.

Even by current standards, this Bondi testimony is shocking. She seems to see herself as the vassal of a king, showing contempt for oversight by the elected representatives of the people.

Yes.
In addition to finding a good therapist. . .

(2)Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)

*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

May he never know a moment of peace

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Election Truth Alliance - Minnesota Hand Count vs Machine Count As part of routine election operations, a small number of Minnesota voting precincts perform hand counts instead of machine-counting paper ballots to

A study of vote counts in Minnesota warrants further look at the vote tabulation software. On machine-counted ballots only, the more votes per precinct the lower the Democratic vote share after tabulation. Not proof of cheating but a red flag pointing to tabulation manipulation.

Trump doesn’t want to pay furloughed employees? It’s not his money.

Today’s sales included soup stuff and a pot of stock is on!

Bloomberg reports Trump is considering selling student loan debt to private sector. That would be a debacle.

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

You can’t trust him.
Don’t agree to discuss at a later date. Keep the pressure on.
#Shutdown

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are Mandatory Spending, meaning a shutdown can't shut them down.

The only things needing budget approval are all Discretionary Spending. Plenty of those spending programs went down though.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

I'll be ordering the @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book on walking from bookshop.org for Anti Prime day. Care to join me in support of Independent Bookstores?

Pennsylvania Senate is strangling the state by not passing the Budget. Make some noise!

Good Morning 🌞
Big Dog will resume his park activities today and I think he’s very happy.

That is some sort of approval. ❤️

Tonight is the Harvest Moon. Go swoon.

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Do I have to figure out how to use Mastodon now??

Judges need to stop the federalization of troops. So depressing.

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

Bad Bunny was born in Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States. Ted Cruz was born in Canada.

Bad Bunny is eligible to run for president because he’s a natural born citizen. Ted Cruz is not.

Thought that was a fun little fact.

This is my kind of water aerobics class….

'Rain Holy hell fire': MAGA accounts bombarded judge with threats before her house burned The South Carolina state judge whose house burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances was an explicit target of hate and threats by President Donald Trump's supporters in the days before, The...

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