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Attorney; Editor-in-Chief, @WMassPI.com; #Spfldpoli when you need it; #MaPoli when you want it. "Retweets" ≠ Seal of Approval. Likes = ??? Fasten your seatbelt, please. "You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." -Samuel Beckett Always Eccles. 1:9

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While there is no particular strategy to putting Mullin in at DHS, there is a strategy to putting in another person who is too stupid to know how much criminal liability he is accepting.

05.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 253    🔁 47    💬 11    📌 0

I mean, besides reverse the WPA to get around the INS v Chadha problem.

05.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's the alternative?

05.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I thought Gottheimer and Moskowitz would be noes.

05.03.2026 21:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

05.03.2026 20:18 — 👍 8403    🔁 2061    💬 549    📌 199

Gonna be that guy and say, we are questioning the success of the operation militarily, but what comes next is the bigger issue.

05.03.2026 21:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

05.03.2026 21:08 — 👍 723    🔁 281    💬 67    📌 108

Plus, it could provoke Turkey.

05.03.2026 21:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why not? Red lights are already standard equipment on Adultery Airlines.

05.03.2026 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Former GOP House member's wife said Sen. Markwayne Mullin put his finger in the noses of sleeping members of Congress and their spouses on a trip to Israel "This idiot starts walking up and down the bus with his camera and anyone who fell asleep, he would put his finger in their nose and take a picture."

Congrats to DHS's new head nosepicker
www.businessinsider.com/sen-markwayn...

05.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Wait. Florida's bar is the one that finally finds the stones to go after these dunces?

05.03.2026 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Dumps Kristi Noem, Allowing Her To Spend More Time Murdering Dogs - Above the Law Kristi Noem gets the Old Yeller treatment.

Kristi Noem gets the Old Yeller treatment... while she was in the middle of giving a speech!

05.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Buh-byeee!

But we still will hold you accountable @SecNoem.

05.03.2026 20:07 — 👍 442    🔁 66    💬 23    📌 2

Because Markwayne Mullin is a wannabe tough guy who has no policy agenda and probably can’t spell legislate and he’ll get to channel his insecurity into state sponsored violence before going home to sleep in his race car bed

05.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo . ALT: a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo .
05.03.2026 20:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 19431    🔁 4724    💬 812    📌 178

New TSA airport security policy shall consist entirely of TSA officers conducting "inspections" of the nasal cavities.

05.03.2026 20:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Savage

05.03.2026 20:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This feels like playoff extra inning baseball Bluesky, except we’re all laughing at Kristi Noem for not knowing the game is over

05.03.2026 19:44 — 👍 43    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

”should we tell her”
“why”
“good point“

05.03.2026 19:40 — 👍 95    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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Shorter Kristi:

05.03.2026 19:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's a yes, by the way.

05.03.2026 19:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, at least she tried to sound informed.

05.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CBS*

05.03.2026 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Savage

05.03.2026 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This seems like the first high profile canning of Trump II. It makes future defenestrations more plausible.

05.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So the man who thought that Khomeini and Khamenei were the same person is now in charge of Homeland Security.

05.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 274    🔁 76    💬 20    📌 5
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says Noem has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans.

Well now we don’t have to impeach her.

05.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 234    🔁 42    💬 62    📌 19

Stitt isn't a total douchebag so he could pick somebody that would actually be an upgrade from Mullin.

05.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0