CJ Jackson

Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm says hi.

I am spending Saturday night writing about all the people Trump is targeting with politically motivated criminal investigations and prosecutions. Legacy media has largely whitewashed these stories with both sides coverage. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now, because I never will. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

pj_hancock 11h O"If your child's teacher was in the Epstein files, you'd try to get them fired. This should extend to the leader of our country." This is the best argument I've seen.

Statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety:

"The DPS Trooper involved has been sent home from the game. DPS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is also aware of the incident and will be further looking into the matter."

Story on the Nyck Harbor incident: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch As millions brace for higher insurance prices, plans touted by the Trump administration are attracting attention. They are cheaper, but coverage is often skimpy.

Unlike most insurance, these plans don’t cover preexisting conditions or basic needs like maternity care and mental health. Their coverage is so limited that five states have banned their sale.

Gift article. Read for free.

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Imprisoned Sen. Bob Menendez would like a word about that gold bar

Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.

After weaponizing the shutdown to block SNAP benefits for hungry people, the Trump Admin is using the oldest trick in the book to do more of the same.

This kind of red tape does nothing to prevent fraud — it just makes it harder for working people to get the benefits they need.

Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

Link to report ISP officers who break the law: www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...

Make sure this gets to everyone who needs it in Chicago and across the state!

Full SNAP benefits funded The good news: All eligible people should be quickly getting their full SNAP benefit payments for November. With the shutdown-ending appropriations legislation signed into law, the Justice Department informed the U.S. Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its request for a stay of the district court order that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pay out full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November.

With the shutdown over, SNAP benefits are back.

"Chief Justice John Roberts and his fellow Republican appointee colleagues are spared from needing to choose between denying food for children in the weeks before Thanksgiving or siding against President Donald Trump." www.lawdork.com/i/178822273/...

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.

Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety.

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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

Trump wanted to commit mass murders constituting Crimes Against Humanity, so he ignited an intra-agency criminal conspiracy to facilitate his psychopathic, homicidal scheme.

There, I summarized the situation for you.

I guess I’d just add that everyone involved in this has earned a prison sentence.

I realize there’s a lot of news happening right now, but it’s still wild to me that Meta is making billions of dollars on scam ads and ads for banned goods and no one is holding them accountable

Notice how nobody in the Trump regime ever asks, “But how will we pay for it?” when it comes to priorities that benefit them?

AI-powered balloons have been photographing Arizona homes for insurance risk assessments AI balloons over Arizona capture home images for insurance with Near Space Labs technology raising privacy concerns

“I think a lot of Americans would raise their eyebrows at what many would consider wide-area surveillance.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

“Sorry we went to the Supreme Court to block your food stamps. We were busy moving $500 million.” 🤡

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Did we all memory hole Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff getting a DWI after Trump's State of the Union address?

Priorities.

‪Michelle Obama seemingly takes a dig at President Trump while remembering when Oprah gave her a giant box of designer clothes. She says she returned them after her husband said, “I’m in office. We don’t accept gifts.”‬

‪“Imagine that?” Obama quips.‬

Cummings says it's clear there have been "repeated material violations" of the consent decree under "Midway Blitz," and that under his reading of the law, the only arrestees subject to mandatory detention have prior removal orders or criminal histories.
The rest deserve a bond.

Wow, that’s crazy. Republicans lied and are screwing you over? Who could have seen that coming?

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them. The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

From a Bluesky post on which the author chose to disable quote-tweets (fair enough, and I wouldn't quote it if I weren't complimenting it: "Instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.""

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

I should really have fit into this post that this county voted for Trump.

So apparently senators must now be notified in advance if their phone records are requested during the investigation of a crime. No one else, just senators. So they're free to crime and can't be investigated without notice. This is so wrong, but it's great for senators who want to commit crimes.