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Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

WSJ: “.. The withheld files included Federal Bureau of Investigation notes documenting a series of interviews the woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Democrats denouncing this gratuitous, distractive war with Iran are not "siding with Iran;" they are siding with sanity and the Constitution.

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

KLOBUCHAR: Alex Pretti's parents said what you said was one of the most hurtful things they could imagine. Do you want to say anything to Alex's parents?

NOEM: I did not call him a 'domestic terrorist.' I said it 'appeared to be an incident of'

KLOBUCHAR: I think the parents saw it for what it was

The Dow went over 50,000 and triggered a magic switch, blocking any discussion of anything Epstein related.
But look: It's back down now, so presto! We can talk about those files again.

Sen. Durbin: “Secretary Noem and her rogue immigration agents seem to believe they are above the law and accountable only to the President and Stephen Miller's evil vision of a hateful America.”

wow

Did the Navy hospital boat make it to Greenland yet?

Markwayne Mullin just did a Fox News hit in which he repeatedly praised "President Hegseth" and then said the president can ask Congress to declare war "on Iraq"

Y’all remember, there was a bipartisan bill that was ready to go but trump told gop lawmakers to kill it because he wanted to campaign on immigration. It can be fixed but this administration likes chaos and uncertainty. It’s by design.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Republicans on the cable shows this morning

-- Suddenly talking again about need to "take" Greenland
-- Hyping importance of "strangling" Cuban government
-- Encouraging Trump to "topple" Iranian regime

The Trump movement is totally out of control. This will not end well.

If Epstein was still alive, which cabinet position would have been given to him?

If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone too, or are only we allowed to do that?

Is it over yet?

It only makes sense.

MORE: The Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. tinyurl.com/29sb5tjd

ICE whistleblower comes forward to testify before Congress Ryan Schwank, a former ICE academy instructor, is expected to testify that ICE “is lying to Congress and the American people” about its training program.

Breaking MS NOW:

An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits.

Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

Rubio Offers Europe Trumpism With a Human Face All the talk of friendship and partnership masked a deeper hostility.

We're really not quite grasping how momentous it is that one of Europe's most pressing geostrategic challenges is figuring out how to rely less on the United States. ICYMI @daliborrohac.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/40ew4Vk

Jeffries on Fox News Sunday: "We believe this moment should be used to make dramatic changes to ICE that are bold, transformational, and meaningful ... these are basic, common sense demands."

Paranoia on Parade | Washington Spectator How reactionary grievances have helped bring America’s democracy to the brink of collapse

This is a good time to revisit my seminal 2022 piece on the long-running war between gold-obsessed propertarians and the Federal Reserve. The DOJ action against Powell is revenge for FDR’s 1933 Executive Order 6102.

washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-...

Amidst all the noise, one thing shouldn’t go unmentioned: Someone in the Justice Department published those largely unredacted Epstein files today intentionally.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy