Jim Saksa

You're doing god's work (totally wrong about 7+6, gotta flip them, and also move them up, but spot on #1, I've got it on a sweatshirt and it rocks)

For those who might not remember: Gonzales resigned as GWB's AG after he fired a bunch of U.S Attorneys for not abiding by the White House's back channel orders to prosecute political enemies. This is the pot calling the kettle a partisan hack

Today it appears to many former DOJ employees and officials that the cathedral of justice is being dismantled stone by stone. Prosecutors appear to no longer enjoy prosecutorial independence. Prosecutions at the federal district level against perceived political or personal enemies of the administration’s leadership are, in many cases, now directed by senior leaders at the Department or by subordinates at the White House. Further, we see the entire legal profession weakened by attacks on law firms. Politically motivated criticism of our judges, as well as threats to their families, threaten to undermine the independence of the courts. Recently, it was reported that leaders in the various 93 US offices were told to provide DOJ headquarters with examples of perceived judicial activism that would serve as the basis for referral to the House of Representatives for possible impeachment proceedings. There are growing complaints about executive branch defiance of court orders. Some prosecutions now appear to be motivated not by justice—but by politics, intimidation, or retribution. Recent prosecutions of perceived political enemies of the current administration—including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and six members of Congress, including Sen. Mark Kelly—have all failed to an embarrassing level. These failures damage morale at DOJ and lessen respect for the agency primarily responsible for protecting the rule of law and our freedoms.

How politicized is Pam Bondi's DOJ? So much so that ALBERTO GONZALES is saying this about it

chkbal.substack.com/p/the-cathed...

IF GOP adds mail-in ballots and trans issues to the bill, they'll lose Republican votes (mail in ballots are popular!). And even IF it then passed the Senate (lol), it would have to go back to the House, where there are now 3 lame duck Texas reps... no way

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump is literally delusional. No version of the SAVE America Act, certainly not the one the House passed, does anything on mail-in ballots, trans athletes or gender affirming care.

Just completely detached from reality.

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

You have my permission to politicize the shit out of my death and throw this callous statement in Trump’s face if some retaliatory Iranian suicide bomber kills me

Surely the man who said “when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything,” would never!

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Someone in the White House press corps please, please ask Trump what is in this bill, the man doesn't seem to have a clue.

The GOP would absolutely repost this a bazillion times and ask why a Democrat let this monster go if he was an undocumented immigration instead of a January 6 rioter

Can someone in the White House press corps please ask Trump what he thinks is in this bill?

If I were a college newspaper reporter, I would definitely go quasi-undercover, join all the campus right wing groups, and get on the group chats right now.

On the same day the US sank an Iranian ship in international waters, we have heard three entirely different answers from the highest Republicans in Washington about whether the US is at "war" with Iran

Azerbaijan says two people injured by Iranian drones Azerbaijan's foreign ministry lodged an official protest with ​the Iranian embassy on Thursday after a pair ‌of Iranian drones flew across the border into Azerbaijan and injured two people at an airpo...

The latest news at this hour:

CONFLICT WIDENS WITH AZERBAIJAN STRIKE: Two Iranian drones flew into Azerbaijan today, injuring two. One fell at an airport just 6 miles from the border with Iran, and the other fell near a school building in a nearby village.

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.

So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The very obvious problem with this implementation of popularism, as a purely political matter, is that you are *constantly* raising the salience of your worst issues!

sixers win

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Multiple reporters are saying that Montana Sen. Steve Daines will NOT seek reelection.

The state's candidate filing deadline was *tonight*, and it's already passed. Not clear whether the GOP has a serious alternative in the race. x.com/JSAmbarian/s...

For a president who ran for office promising to keep the United States out of wars, Trump has already launched attacks during his second term in:

Ecuador
Iran
Iraq
Nigeria
Somalia
Syria
Venezuela
Yemen
and on civilians in boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

$130bn + $4bn of interest, “there are no merits”, what an absolute savage.

I don’t want the Dems to become a party of trolls but i suspect it’s good to have a handful on your team. Like a hockey enforcer

Holy crap.

Just such a naked example of how only Dems are thought to have agency.

The GOP majority gets its way on a party-line vote, and @theguardian.com uses SCHUMER’S picture.

No one even knows what Thune—THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE SENATE—looks like.

Appalling choice, Guardian. Reprehensible.

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

I believe there is a very strong preference that person works out of the Jersey City office. Not sure if there is any flexibility there (it's a different team that operates out of a different city...)

Yeah, it was confusing! They took another random Senate bill as a shell and amended it for some procedural reason that I, frankly, have not bothered to look up

Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information The Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters.

The Brennan Center has been tracking this. 11 states have said they are (not sure exact timing, though, so maybe not all 11).... but I don't see that in the bill?

www.congress.gov/119/bills/s1...

Republicans have 1.838 million votes in the primary with 78% of votes in

Isn't the bigger story in TX-Sen that the Dems got about the same amount of votes as the Republicans and the Dems have more votes left to count?