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Excising the Cancer in Our Institutions We need to start thinking about how we are going to separate the sheep from the wolves in sheep's clothing.

Some thoughts on what de-magafication of our institutions might look like when this nightmare is over (free post) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Children!

Jim Jordan is an ass.

And they continue to reveal themselves shamelessly and openly demonstrating the arrogance of their power.

Just following Blanche’s counsel

Did the Clintons Turn the Tables in the Game of Epstein Chicken? By agreeing to testify, Bill and Hillary Clinton may have gained escalation dominance in a way that Comer wasn’t anticipating.

Say what you will about the Clintons, but they ain’t dumb: Comer may have picked the wrong fight. My latest for @cafedotcom.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

A "Zahltag" Moment, in a United States of “On To Cincinnati” The crimes of Trump & Epstein are heinous, dark, and deep—but the perpetrators walk free. To survive as a democracy, we can't "turn the page." We must hold the traitors to account. Here's how.

"I don’t know if we are in a battle for the soul of the nation, as Biden once said. I don’t know if nations have souls. And if they do, I’m not sure ours wasn’t lost long ago. What I do know is that if there are no consequences for what these Trump villains are doing now, there is no coming back."

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been calling foreign countries' justice departments all weekend threatening and begging them to drop their Epstein investigations, and stop subpoenaing the emails and testimony of Epstein accomplices who could implicate him...

Trump administration live updates: Lawmakers view unredacted Epstein files at Justice Department Trump administration live updates: Congress members may begin viewing unredacted Epstein files at DOJ

“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Mike Johnson: "GOD FORBID we do what the US Constitution requires us to do! And GOD FORBID we use some of that $190 BILLION DOLLARS from the Big Bullshit Bill that was given to DHS to actually fund competent immigration judges who can ensure due process for ALL people, regardless of citizenship!"

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

Don’t make the mistake of lumping this in with weekly Trump outrages. This is the knife at the jugular of democracy. It should be an absolute call to maximum resistance for all patriots.

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

This is funny, but also brilliant. Once people go down the path (of any wrong decision), it is sooooo hard to turn back -- because it is tantamount to admitting you were foolish. As hard as it is, we need to offer soft landings and gentle off ramps (which is what we'd want too)

Is this real? Please tell me this is real

Yep. Mentioned this last night on @allinwithchris.bsky.social and he was 🤯

Is the United States in Need of A New Constitution? Has the Constitution, ratified in 1789, endured as intended by the Framers of the Constitution for these almost 250 years or is it too outdated and incapable of amendment to serve any longer as the bl...

Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Emeritus Laurence H. Tribe replies that rather than discard the Constitution, we should “cling to it as both sword and shield in this time of existential crisis for our republic.” @tribelaw.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/judgelut...

So back in June Alex Padilla was tackled and detained by ICE for trying to ask a question at a press conference. The story from the administration was he attacked her.
Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄

Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding:
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Is this real? Because if so I think I called it with twelve minutes to spare

Amd in case you need a refresher diagram on where fhe Italian satellites and Hugo Chavez fit in (I forgot Chinese bamboo, too)

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

Kristi Noem has an express ticket to Hell with Stephen Miller riding shotgun

In the Bureau we used "turn and burn" to refer to when you do a quick/surgical trip or operation (i.e., like you drive down from NY for a meeting in DC and then come back that same night). I mean it's possible it means something different at DHS but...

I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

Actually I learned from @vermontgmg.bsky.social that ICE Emergency Removal Officers (ERO) and CBP officers are 1801s, not 1811s -- they are still law enforcement and have arrest authority, but it is more limited than 1811s