Jeff Blattner

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Trump's chaotic tariffs are explicable only as a tool to feed his malignant narcissism. Nations that bow before him are rewarded with lower tariffs; nations that don't are punished with higher tariffs.

These clowns will search the world for an all-white panda...

Prosecute, then impeach, worked for Alcee Hastings (who was acquitted and subsequently impeached and convicted.)

True.

Sponsors "shocked" that a Senator actually had the temerity to propose an amendment to a bill pending on the Senate floor. FFS, people, this is how the Senate is *supposed* to work, and how it did work when it actually worked.

See Rehnquist dissent in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti

1/ An inflection point

The Presidents of five Israeli universities send letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu (more have joined the letter since)

Calling on Netanyahu

- to address hunger crisis in Gaza

- to issue an "unequivocal condemnation" of recents statements by ministers

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READ IT HERE FIRST!

Complete transcript of Todd Blanche-Ghislaine Maxwell meeting:

Blanche: (mumbles unintelligibly).

Maxwell: Pardon me?

Blanche: Deal!

Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother Mark Epstein said Jeffrey made the comments in an unreleased interview with Steve Bannon. Insider has not seen the video.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have reached a new level... www.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey...

Thanks for all the enlightenment over many years. Let us know where to read you next!

One of these things is not at all like the other.

"he will have to walk a careful line, balancing his current responsibility to pursue the public good by getting what he can out of Ms. Maxwell against his erstwhile responsibility to defend Mr. Trump against any possibly embarrassing information that she might eventually provide."

Look at this one astounding sentence in the NY Times. It says so much about their failure to rise to the current moment.

1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer.

Justice Kagan sounds the alarm 🚨

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Sound familiar? "peace with the strongman, in exchange for subjugation and humiliation. Going along is what did them in." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

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Complete transcript of Todd Blanche-Ghislaine Maxwell meeting:

Blanche: (mumbles unintelligibly).

Maxwell: Pardon me?

Blanche: Deal!

Giving in to presidential pressure in order to preserve Fed independence is an argument worthy of Orwell's 1984.

Giving in to presidential pressure in order to preserve Fed independence is an argument worthy of Orwell's 1984.

A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.

A quick, open trial on the merits. Federal judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, shows how it's done. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Utterly and totally wrong. Bowing to threats and pressure would weaken the Fed, the economy, and the Nation as a whole.

Paramount Suitor Meets With FCC Chairman, Seeking OK for Deal Skydance Media Chief Executive Officer David Ellison met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Tuesday appealing to the regulatory chief to approve his film studio’s pending ...

So Ellison meets with FCC Chair on Tuesday and Colbert was told on Wednesday his show was being cancelled. The FCC's merger-approval authority is a powerful weapon in the hands of censors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Paramount Suitor Meets With FCC Chairman, Seeking OK for Deal Skydance Media Chief Executive Officer David Ellison met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Tuesday appealing to the regulatory chief to approve his film studio’s pending ...

So Ellison meets with FCC Chair on Tuesday and Colbert was told on Wednesday his show was being cancelled. The FCC's merger-approval authority is a powerful weapon in the hands of censors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Super PAC backing Michael Bennet’s gubernatorial bid is fueled by dark money, pro-charter school groups Rocky Mountain Way formed in April, a few days after Bennet, a U.S. senator, entered the governor’s race

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Lessons from Colbert episode (and the 60 Minutes, ABC/Disney, LA Times, and WashPost episodes)--
-- The First Amendment is powerless against corporate cowardice;
-- Media conglomerates are always going to cave;
-- FCC's merger approval power is ripe for abuse in wrong hands & should be curtailed.1/2

-- FTC and DOJ's enforcement powers also ripe for abuse (eg MMFA);
-- It's going to be more and more difficult to reach mass audiences of non-politically-engaged people with messages critical of the regime.
-- It's going to take serious money and creative media entrepreneurship to overcome this. 2/2

Lessons from Colbert episode (and the 60 Minutes, ABC/Disney, LA Times, and WashPost episodes)--
-- The First Amendment is powerless against corporate cowardice;
-- Media conglomerates are always going to cave;
-- FCC's merger approval power is ripe for abuse in wrong hands & should be curtailed.1/2