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Nobility. No crown required.

#ajax #dogsky #NoKings

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026. | Francis Chung/POLITICO By DANIEL LIPPMAN 03/27/2026 01:14 PM EDT * * * * Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda — strain that has caused him to struggle to make key decisions for the agency, according to two current and two former administration officials.

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court!

2025 Republicans: We run things now so

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And a somewhat snoozlier form of vigilance.

#ajax #dogsky

I have to know what phishing email he opened to make this happen

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Same vigilance, different location.

#ajax #dogsky

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And a smile somewhat obscured by a giant tongue.

#ajax #dogsky

DOJ Agrees to Pay Ex-Trump Adviser Michael Flynn in Settlement The US Justice Department has agreed to pay $1.25 million to Michael Flynn, a conservative activist and former official in the first Trump administration who sought millions of dollars from the govern...

LATEST: Ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn will get $1.25 million in his settlement with DOJ, resolving claims stemming from his Mueller-era prosecution, per person familiar with the terms
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Those of us who worked for Biden kept offering details about his very real ability to do the actual job. It’s just that nobody wanted to hear them.

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida.

And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024).

That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

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And here's that smile right-side up (and without fangs).

#ajax #dogsky

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome"

sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

One of these specials… is to represent Trump.

Column | The perils of making vote counting exciting Once polls close, there is no lead to be gained or lost. No matter what order the votes are counted in, someone has already won.

Seeing some commentary about the perils of turning vote-counting into election-night cable-news drama. So let me just point out that I wrote about this in Nov 2024¹ … and in May 2024² and in Dec 2022³ and in March 2018.⁴

Sort of a hobbyhorse of mine.

¹ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Indeed. Every part of it was a choice.

For sure, the folks lying about how this all works are primarily to blame.

But the most natural implication of the graph while ballot counting is still underway is a trendline. And that’s emphatically not the right interpretation in this context.

I’m not sure that last point is correct. It’s my understanding that you can (still) get a postmark at the counter if you ask for one.

But whatever happens at SCOTUS, mailing ballots early is still best practice.

The impact of a SCOTUS decision (wrongly) interpreting federal statutes to require ballots to be in by election day are going to affect a lot more states than most people think.

There is, at present, no statutory servicemembers exception for the date of return.

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There's a smile under those fangs.

#ajax #dogsky

I'll confess I don't have the stats on this. But I'd bet that the biggest population of people who return ballots after election day are servicemembers.

And if - against all interpretive logic - current federal statutes mean ballots have to be in by election day, that means for everyone.

Exactly.

Think of it like Christmas morning.

The presents are all already finalized once you start unwrapping. Nobody's "ahead" or "behind" or "mounting a comeback" as you unwrap. The presents are what they are, they're all going to get distributed, and the order you unwrap them isn't meaningful.

This graphic was fine for true election administration geeks.

And WILDLY misleading for everybody else. Given differences in how ballots are counted, nobody should expect a pattern of ballots counted earlier to fit a pattern of ballots counted later! It neither indicates foul play nor a surge.

The NYT graphic tracking the partisan breakdown of ballots counted by time has broken a Supreme Court justice.

Yeah, the need to choose a different continent, in a different hemisphere, is a smidge of a tell.

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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A mini Mini, as it were.

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At some point, of course, he found a red Mini convertible of his own. It was kind of inevitable.

#ajax #dogsky

There has been an attempt to get the DNC to do this since at least 2009 (and probably well before), and it has never been even slightly interested. Would be very interesting indeed if it finally decided on a strategy that incorporated investment.