Instead of protecting reproductive freedom per the FACE Act, the weaponized Trump DOJ instead protects the terrorists.
@reproductivefreedomforall.org's Mini Timmaraju joins me for an in-depth conversation on the latest strategic attack on abortion by Trump and the GOP.
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An ICE agent faces felony assault charges for pulling a gun on two victims in Minneapolis.
I’ve got all of the latest details, including how the incident took place & how the local District Attorney is able to prosecute this federal agent.
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“Celebrating the First Amendment” my ass.
"I’m all in favor of using impeachment...but tell me first how you’re going to coerce the admin to provide documents and testimony, a problem that undermined every effort to impose accountability in 2019."
@emptywheel.bsky.social comments on my George Conway pod:
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🚨🚨This is my response to the new attack President Trump launched on myself and other sane America patriots today. The evidence is overwhelming President Trump is committing political suicide on purpose, and has made a deal to sabotage the midterms.. America is now under the control of a foreign government. Everyone needs to fly their flags upside down, because our nation is in distress!🚨🚨
BANNON: President Trump had to tell "America's greatest ally" that "Enough is enough." I don't remember FDR having to say that to the Russians or to the Brits. Tel Aviv Levin, suck on this. Benji, suck on this. This is a humiliation. "Enough is enough."
On the one hand, Alex Jones guarantees Trump has committed political sepuku (yes, he really used that term) and is being run by Israel (w/some more antisemitic shit in there).
On the other, Bannon claims Trump has humiliated Israel by telling "Benji" suck on this.
Confusing time to be MAGAt.
Here's the show cause motion and the docket.
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Several of these people may have malicious prosecution claims, and Bondi may be a good deal more exposed for her misconduct now that she's no longer in govt.
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I understand that at the motions hearing in this matter held on April 14, the Court had questions regarding the motion to seal in this case. I was not able to attend the hearing, and the government has since moved to dismiss this case after a more fulsome review of the additional video evidence not available at the time the complaint issued, but the Court deserves to have its questions answered, so I write to supplement the record made at that hearing. First, the Court and counsel are correct that the claim in the motion to seal that there were individuals identified in the affidavit apart from Mr. Adbebe was inaccurate and was a mistake. The motion was drafted with standard language and I failed to remove this inapplicable provision when editing. I should have more narrowly tailored the language of the motion to reflect the affidavit. The Court and Mr. Adbebe were due a much greater degree of care in the preparation of this motion. This was not done with any intent to mislead the Court; as counsel notes, the affidavit that was submitted to the Court simultaneously with the motion to seal plainly shows who is and is not identified. There are issues raised in Mr. Adbebe’s motions in which I had no input, awareness, or control, but I had control over this, and I take responsibility for the error.
Several of MN defendants whose arrested Bondi staged in February complained that she violated sealing orders the govt had asked for. Weds, DOJ moved to dismiss the case in which defendant had moved aggressively for sanctions, Kirubele Adbebe, but not b4 AUSA tried to explain themself.
Maybe a good day to reup this post from October.
How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller
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Patel’s drinking is no secret. While on official travel to Italy in February, he was filmed chugging beer with the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team following their gold-medal victory. The incident prompted the president—who does not drink and whose brother died following a long struggle with alcoholism—to call the FBI director to convey his unhappiness, according to two officials familiar with the call. But officials told me that Patel’s alcohol use goes far beyond the occasional beer. FBI officials and others in the administration have privately questioned whether alcohol played a role in the instances in which he shared inaccurate information about active law-enforcement investigations, including following the murder of Charlie Kirk.
In the Tyler Robinson case (Kirk's accused killer) today, his atty said they STILL have not gotten DNA evidence mentioned in complaint. What if FBI fucked it up bc of Kash's interference?
On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.” Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI.
I hope when Kash is eventually fired they DO just lock him out of the FBI systems, bc that obviously is a deep fear of his and he deserves it.
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yeah it is critical that dems win the senate
A blockade is an act of war. Iran should consider it a violation of the ceasefire if the US keeps blockading the strait.
The fact that people in New York have just been putting bags of trash on the curb is absolutely wild to me as a Chicagoan.
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Where is TMZ when you need them?
"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed...
“You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..."
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Must watch folks! This panel was off the chain!
Nobody declares victory after losses more often or as loudly as Donald Trump.
Please clap.
Trump wants praise from the fake news he supposedly doesn’t care about based on his claims which never turn out to be accurate.
Trump has now made 13 posts over the last hour declaring victory in Iran.
Trump has certainly mastered how to feed reporters bullshit who dutifully pass it along uncritically since showing an ability to get him to take their calls apparently demonstrates clout and outweighs other considerations such as accuracy and truthfulness. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Jenner’s passport was changed to ‘Male’ under Trump’s new policy.
Who could’ve predicted this would happen?
Just got off the phone with the president. He told me a bunch of obvious lies but I’m going to post them anyway because I want everyone to know I just got off the phone with the president.
Did we get the uranium yet?
I’m really shocked that 10 hours after Trump declared total victory nothing has changed from yesterday.
