Didi Ⓥ

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Every court has determined the tariffs are illegal; they are taxation without representation, not passed by Congress; and now they are using these ill-gotten monies to illegally, unconstitutionally fund other programs.

How again can the Ds do a budget deal with Trump when he acts so lawlessly?

Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’ Allies of President Nicolás Maduro vow to resist any military intervention but experts suspect Venezuela’s leaders were rattled by Trump’s decision to bomb Iran

“Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’” … 10/7/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer Todd Blanche discovers that your place is never totally secure in the modern conservative movement.

"Perhaps the strongest defense of Blanche came from former Trump lawyer Alina Habba, now fighting her own battle to remain as the lead federal prosecutor in New Jersey." www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-turns...

When the media repeats the phrase "Trump enemies," they do Trump a favor. They're not his "enemies," they're his critics exercising their fundamental right to criticize the president.

@saletan.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on Just Between Us, for Bulwark+ members only:

What Does the U.S. Want in Venezuela? The administration is making it difficult to discern what it perceives to be our interests in Latin America.

Even the American Conservative is skeptical of the Trump administration’s asserted rationale for US aggression toward Venezuela. An interesting read. 10/7/25 … 1/ www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-th...

Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us. It’s great that Disney is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back—but is it too late?

A populace that is agitated without being informed. A leader who encourages the worst suspicions, fuels the most dangerous lies, and mocks compromise and tolerance. It is getting close to being too late. ICYMI: www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 224. 10/7/25 … AG Pam Bondi had a heated and contentious hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee where she refused to answer questions, made personal attacks against Democratic senators, and got extrem...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 224. A very heated and contentious senate hearing today with AG Bondi over Epstein, Homan, and many other issues. That and everything else that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

YouTube video by emptywheel How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care

Reup: How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddz...

Trump in June 2023: “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.” (h/t @acyn.bsky.social) … 1/

Utah Map ‘Unduly Favors Republicans,’ Claims New Filing Challenging GOP’s Two-Pronged Gerrymander Scheme Read more here.

Several pro-voting groups asked a court Monday to block Utah Republican’s audacious new GOP law designed to make it harder to strike down the state’s new gerrymander, arguing it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Imagine how they'll feel if Trump pardons her.

And how will MAGA feel about that? Or the non-MAGA Trump voters? It's hard to imagine that there's much of a constituency for pardoning the world's most notorious sex-trafficker.

Phang: How are these Epstein victims supposed to feel about closure when you see Blanche meeting with Maxwell and then giving her a minimum-security camp move?

And now, conversations allegedly that Trump is going to have with the DOJ about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. It is an abomination

YouTube video by Katie Phang MAGA Pastor PLEADS GUILTY After CAUGHT in SHOCKING SCANDAL

Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here:

youtu.be/pVqRxNDtKFs

Everyone needs to know that Pam Bondi was asked under oath today if there were photos of Trump with naked underage girls found in Epstein's safe & she didn't deny it!

The Rise of MAGA Christian Identity Plus: The crocodile comes to eat Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL.

When religions devolve into identitarian movements, bad things happen.

Tim Miller on his recent interview with Barstool's KFC about how only "absolute batshit crazy" people want masked ICE agents kidnapping random gardeners:

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

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.

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.

Presumably she has a folder like that for each Democratic Senator. Might be wise (necessary?) for one of those Senators to remind the Attorney General of her obligations under the Federal Records Act of 1950 in case she's unfamiliar. Those folders might need to be subpoenaed or requested under FOIA.

I'm signing two landmark bills to strengthen California’s fight against hate and antisemitism in schools — creating new accountability systems and requiring stronger responses.

As antisemitism and bigotry rise nationwide, we’re taking action to confront hate in all its forms.

This photo of red troops from Texas invading Illinois over a fake emergency is raising some significant questions for those who watched the televised address Pete Kegstand gave to hundreds of generals, admirals and commanders recently, a speech that already lives in infamy as the "No Fatties Speech"

Dolphins doing high jumps this morning in the intracoastal waterway near Clearwater, Florida. I've probably captured close to 1,000 jumps on camera over the years but I think these might be the highest I've filmed.
#nature #amazing #animals #awesome #dolphins #wildilfe #thanksforallthefish

YouTube video by MSNBC 'Brazen' 'Shameless' 'Verifiably false': Nicolle SMASHES Pam Bondi's testimony

Nicolle Wallace reacts to Attorney General Bondi's day of testimony.

WATCH HERE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNG...

Update from the war zone in Portland.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

Road in a Forest Fontainebleau - 1863
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6235

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.