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RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

So Bondi plans her congressional hearings by bringing up dirt on the senators who questioned her rather than answering the questions. This is the lying schemer that is running the DOJ.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

"A standoff with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 4, 2025." Jim Vondruska/Reuters POLICE

It’s unbelievable in some ways that reality is more heavy handed than even the most bleak dystopic Americas from 1980s or 90s sci fi.

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to Americans who were cheated by big banks and giant corporations.

But Trump has tried to destroy the CFPB, choosing big corporations over scammed Americans.

The case is in the courts now, and Democrats are united behind the CFPB.

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

Democrats are winning the shutdown Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

"To the extent Republicans have managed to settle on a single talking point, it’s that Dems want taxpayer $ to pay for healthcare for undocumented people — a lie so egregious even the mainstream media is balking at repeating it. It’s almost self-parodic messaging & polling suggests it’s not working"

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

It was perfect

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I hope John Fetterman watched the Pam Bondi hearing today and felt good about his vote to confirm her.

Do Republicans in Congress deny that 15 million people will lose health insurance? No.

Do Republicans deny that health premiums will more than double? Nope.

Do Republicans deny that rural hospitals will close? No.

We must fix this health care crisis.

Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

SCHIFF: If a video exists of Homan taking $50k in bribe money from the FBI, will you support a request to provide it to the committee?

BONDI: You can talk to Director Patel about that

SCHIFF: I'm talking to you about it


BONDI: Will you apologize to Donald Trump?

SCHIFF: Was it true when the White House press secretary denied that Homan took the money?

BONDI: I was not in office, I was not confirmed, when that was handled


SCHIFF: Did he take the money?

BONDI: That happened prior to my confirmation

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

PADILLA: Do you believe govt officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not, yes or no?

BONDI: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump

PADILLA: I asked a simple yes or no question

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Right-Wingers Are Getting Mad at (and Misunderstanding) 'One Battle After Another' Conservative critics and commentators like Ben Shapiro are complaining about, and misunderstanding, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

Paul Thomas Anderson's celebrated family drama and political thriller is far from the "apologia for radical left-wing terrorism" its conservative critics claim it is.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

In the Third Reich, Hitler’s will replaced German law. Whatever he wanted, he did.

Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects.

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.