Tim Faulkner

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Senator Josh Hawley’s bill to ban stock trading for members of Congress, the President, and Vice President has passed out of committee.

The vote was 8–7, with Hawley being the only GOP to join Dems.

White House had lobbied against the bill since it includes the President and Vice President.

The fact that 12% of federal judges are black is obviously DEI. The fact that 50% are part of a right wing legal cult that about 5% of law students belong to is a sign of meritocracy.

You couldn’t get me to go public with my fight with a pierogi vendor at the farmers market if my life depended on it. How humiliating

This ridiculousness is real...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. OCKRUL These are their names. Delphine Gamburg @DelphineGamburg Follow Sources? Hamas propaganda? Good for you guys. 11:29 AM • 7/31/25 • 3.9K Views

Deputy Consul General of Israel responds to the WaPo reporting on children and infants killed by Israel in Gaza:

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

After I was denied entry to an ICE facility in my district, many of you said social media posts weren’t enough. You’re right.

Here’s what’s next.

Smithsonian to purge ‘anti-American ideology' as MAGA revamp gets underway Add the Smithsonian to the list of the country’s cultural institutions undergoing a MAGA-style overhaul as President Donald Trump moves to purge what he called “anti-American ideology” from exhibits a...

They just had the first board of regents meeting since the takeover:
“Add the Smithsonian to the list of the country’s cultural institutions undergoing a MAGA-style overhaul as Trump moves to purge what he called “anti-American ideology” from exhibits across its 21 museums and the National Zoo.“

“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display….Now, the exhibit notes that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal.”

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

NEW: A newly declassified part of the Durham report shows republicans used a Russian-manufactured email as evidence that Hilary Clinton conspired with Russia. 😂😂😂 gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

I assume he orders the robots to kill the poor, hungry, and diseased people and then has the AI write his texts to his children

Man worth $370 billion says the way to solve poverty is “AI and robotics”

I think the word "Nazi" is quite overused these days, but demanding a list of people who attended an event at which speech about and by people the Florida regime clearly considers undesirable is....some real Nazi-ass shit.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Once again, if you're wondering why Bezos doesn't seem bothered that he's wrecking The Post, keep in mind that he spent twice what The Post cost him just on his boat.

He can afford to wreck this toy. All those lives and careers where just playthings for him.

ICE GOON forcefully grab activists filming outside the immigration court and forcefully knock her phone out of her hand.

Congrats to Hulk Hogan for making it 7 days without using the N-word.

Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app A longtime Justice Department employee was fired in July because her husband operated ICEBlock, an app that tracks the locations of immigration agents.

Carolyn Feinstein said she initially thought the message sent to her private email address on a late Friday afternoon was a scheme or a prank.

It turned out that she was being fired by the US Justice Dept

Just filed ======>

www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

“Not since the McCarthy era have we seen immigrants subject to such an intense campaign of speech repression,” says @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social. Good overview of the history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the U.S. and its chilling effects in @lawfaremedia.org.

Good point but I think also that people need to push back more on the "it was just a massage" defense.

Massage is a professional service provided by a licensed and trained adult.

If a child is sent to your room to massage you, your only appropriate response is to leave and report it.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

I think ICE is in a thuggery spiral. You’ll see more gratuitous uses of force, leading to more people filming/protesting it, leading to more thuggery in reaction.

BRO

Bonus 167: The Case for Not Writing With the justices handing down so many significant grants of emergency relief without rationales, it's worth identifying the arguments in support of unexplained rulings—and why they fail to persuade.

Although I wrote it before Justice Kavanaugh’s remarks this week at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference attempting to defend #SCOTUS not explaining its rulings, I suspect that folks will find this “One First” post rather … responsive:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-167-...

Here’s the *second* story in a week of a federal district judge — this time in Mississippi — issuing an error-filled opinion that reeks of AI hallucinations:
mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/a...