Shutdown Deal Lets GOP Senators Personally Sue Over Jack Smith Probe $500K For Election Subversion Tucked into a spending bill that is part...

Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Trump’s Economy lost an estimated 50,000 private sector jobs in October.

But he continues to insist everything is booming.

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

"In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million from $51 million a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations." Wild. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.

Senate Republicans secured a provision in the government funding package that could award Republican senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collected — a routine, normal process — during the Jack Smith investigation. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.

What the actual fuck???

“Cassidy has been exhorting his colleagues to back a new idea to put money into employer-sponsored accounts that would allow individuals to set aside pre-tax dollars for medical expenses.”

HALF OF ACA ENROLLEES ARE SELF-EMPLOYED.

So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.

Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.

It’s such a fucking scandal that he has no clue what Obamacare even is or how health insurance works

Felony charges for “attempting to hang a five-foot-tall cardboard bug,” in case you want to know how free speech is going at our nation’s universities.

Kevin Roberts and the Opus Dei connection The president of the Heritage Foundation is a regular at the Opus Dei hub in DC

Was Project 2025 in fact an Opus Dei project? Of course it was. And the key tie in was the man responsible for Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, an Opus Dei acolyte.

“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.

Who’s “standing for them” by voting to allow costs to skyrocket?!?

Supreme Court won't overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage https://cnn.it/4nGnEiN

At least we don’t have to stress over another nonsense case.

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Protest in DC 20-22 November. 20th is Congressional visits, the last day before they break for Thanksgiving. 21st is a veterans rally. 22nd is a massive rally and Dropkick Murphys will be there. Join the Fam of Liberty any day that you can. If you cannot make it all 3 days, be there Saturday.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Doing this in anticipation of what, one might ask

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

ICYMI: The New York Times is done with women

Appendix of Public Statements of President Donald J. Trump About or Concerning AG James or this Case 1 No. Date/Time (ET) Location Speaker Comment / Post Link 2019–20212 1 3/13/2019 10:26 AM X (formerly Twitter) Trump All part of the Witch Hunt Hoax. Started by little Eric Schneiderman & Cuomo. So many leaving New York! [Replying to @GOP statement: The NY Attorney General called President Trump an “illegitimate president.” She has proven to have a vendetta against @realDonaldTrump & is using her position of power to baselessly smear the President & the work he’s done for the American people.] https://perma.c c/4NS6-UGEV 2 3/13/2019 10:26 AM X (formerly Twitter) Trump RT @DiamondandSilk: AG Letitia James of New York is abusing her power by targeting the POTUS. Using the Attorney General office as a weapon to deliberately target the President because of Political Bias should be against the Law and a violation of the Hatch Act! https://perma.c c/553N-C2GE 3 4/29/2019 8:18 AM X (formerly Twitter) Trump The NRA is under siege by Cuomo and the New York State A.G., who are illegally using the State’s legal apparatus to take down and destroy this very important organization, & others. It must get its act together quickly, stop the internal fighting, & get back to GREATNESS - FAST! https://perma.c c/6RA9-DE98 4 7/1/2019 12:10 PM X (formerly Twitter) Trump It is very hard and expensive to live in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo uses his Attorney General as a bludgeoning tool for his own purposes. They sue on everything, always in search of a crime. I even got sued on a Foundation which took Zero rent & expenses & gave away... https://perma.c c/Q477-7HSN 5 7/1/2019 12:10 PM X (formerly Twitter) Trump ....more money than it had. Going on for years, originally brought by Crooked Hillary’s Campaign Chair, A.G. Eric Schneiderman, until forced to https://perma.c c/89EZ-UP7B 1 This appendix reflects the best efforts of counsel to compile all of the President’s statements relevant to…

Jim Comey's appendix of Trump attacks was 60 pages (tho it did not claim to be comprehensive).

Tish James' is 113 pages.

That means 4 out of 5 do not regret their vote. So.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.