Jeff Yarbro

Government shut down; air traffic controllers not getting paid; health care costs soaring. And this guy is directing the government to give him a quarter of a billion dollars.

The corruption knows no bounds.

It is indeed almost like that.

And “spied”? They didn’t wiretap him or listen to calls. In 2023 they subpoenaed lists of his calls for Jan. 4-7, 2021. A narrow request, as it should be. Again, it would be shocking if they hadn’t fully documented the evidence of those calls.

The Senator doth protest too much, methinks.

Hagerty tweet re spying.

Footnote from Jan 2025 special counsel report detailing toll records of calls.

How can Sen. Hagerty act so shocked? The January Report disclosed retrieving toll records for calls from WH to a handful of senators on night of J6. And it was public that he was in that handful. It’d be crazy for a prosecutor not to have those records when the calls were a big part of indictment.

-282 former DOJ officials sound alarm on compromised integrity & abuse of power.
-6 former Surgeons General warn RFK endangering nation’s health.
-Amid government shutdown, White House threatens to withhold back pay.
-Two US cities challenging illegal troop deployments.

That’s just today.

wild @MarshaBlackburn & Hagerty are making a big deal of this. calls from WH/Giuliani to Senators after 1/6 to halt certification is described in the Trump indictment

By all means let’s see every doc/grand jury testimony mentioning them to confirm if phone records were relevant!

If you’re in Nashville and don’t know if you live in CD7, you can check out here: tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/

Today’s Election Day to pick the nominees for the special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which includes lots of Nashville. If you’re not sure, there’s a handy tool posted below.

Polls open now and until 7pm. Go vote.

Walsh tweet calling for open defiance of judges and deployment of Guard.

We’re missing basic civics here. It’s Congress—not the President—that has the constitutional power to call out the Guard. Congress’s laws let presidents deploy under narrow, specific circumstances. For nearly 250 years, courts have enforced those limits to prevent abuse of power.

Here’s the @Tennessean latest on the push to expand it more.

Map showing voucher enrollment concentrated in Shelby, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and to lesser extent Madison & suburbs outside Nashville.

The voucher program takes sales tax money paid by everyone all over the state and redistributes it to wealthier families who were already in private schools in a handful of suburbs & cities.

Gov Lee statement, including point that half go to families meeting income limits and half to families not within limit

“Evenly divided” here means half of the private school vouchers go to families making less than the ~$170,000 limit, which is 95% of Tennessee families and half go to families making even more, which is the wealthiest 5% of Tennesseans.

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Good God, this is dangerous. And just an outright rejection of basic principles of constitutional government in the United States.

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally ch...

"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."

Got so tired of complaining about voter fraud without proof that he just went out and did voter fraud. Now that’s commitment to a cause.

George Washington won the Revolution, presided at Constitutional Convention, and was our first President. When Senate proposed his face for US coins, he rejected it as anti-republican and signed a law barring any actual person’s image on coins, which held until Lincoln was put on the penny in 1909.

H/t @parkerbutler.bsky.social for original post. Also worth reading this thread: bsky.app/profile/whst...

2024: CNN fact check

2025 tweet from Trump re Russ Vought of Project 2025 fame

During 2024 campaign, Trump lied and disowned Project 2025. CNN and others in media actually fact-checked Democrats for deceiving & misleading voters by linking it to Trump.

But it’s been the operational blueprint for his presidency from the jump.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Using drones, helicopters & flashbang grenades to storm an entire residential apartment building in the middle of the night and then hauling off zip tied children in rented vans.

The country’s entering a moral black hole here.

Jake Sherman post about vought meeting with House GOP on layoffs & cuts

Having a Dr. Evil style meeting on how your detailed plans are finally falling into place seems a questionable strategy.

Historically bad decision for Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in hell this is.

Trump's MAGA-fied military prepares for "war from within" In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint.

In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint and proclaimed the U.S. armed forces as his weapon of choice against domestic "enemies."

Times of India

SBS Australia

Turkey Today

Kuwait Times

New straits

Economist

CGTN

BBC

Le Monde

Nikkei

Aljazeera

El pais

🧵 The people in the rest of the world understand what’s happening in America. Do we?

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.