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Trump wants images of confrontation. He wants escalation. Mark Esper, Trump’s SECDEF in his 1st term, said Trump ordered protesters to be shot. Trump wants to kill Americans.
His memorandum yesterday didn’t mention LA or California. He’s asserting control of the guard everywhere. He said yesterday he would deploy troops everywhere.
Trump sent a mob to assassinate the vice-president of the United States when he (Mike Pence) refused Trump’s order to overturn that election.
Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said Trump is, A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
The bigotry of low expectations is thinking people are too stupid to know this, rather than understanding 1/3 are anti-American illiberal shitbirds.
Just because they failed to get it once before doesn’t mean they didn’t try and keep on trying.
A vote for a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist is voting in support of abuse. And now we’re getting abused.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/29/sec-drop...
Cut all things that promote or enable public health.
In neo-feudalism, only lords and perhaps some of their most favored serfs, deserve private for profit health care, and the barrier to entry is cost. Why be wealthy if you can’t buy things other people can’t?
There’s always a surplus of peasants in this model.
Party doesn't matter. Ds need to inform their R Congresscritters every bit as much as any other combination.
For what it's worth, Republican constituents overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the R primary. Any number of candidates would have provided boilerplate Republican policies, but that wasn't what they wanted.
What Trump is doing is what these voters want.
And there's no limit. It's become an illiberal pro-authoritarian movement. It's in-progress.
Pick something you care about and defend it. It can't be everything all at once at all times, no one can do that.
Call or write your Congresscritter. Concisely express your concerns. Seriously short. Someone listens/reads the message, ticks a box that summarizes your concern, tallies the checked boxes. It isn't personalized like some might wish but your opinion is counted.
If the actual response exceeds the expected, then some feel good pandering might occur. But in large numbers of complaints, it can move the needle.
If everyone did it, there'd be more responsive government than merely voting. Of course not everyone does it. But in aggregate your call/email has an effect when you do it regularly and tell others they should.
What if even 1/10th of the complaints on social media went to Congresscritters? They'd respond differently.
Join a peaceful assembly. Join two.
If we do nothing that is permission. What comes next is election shenanigans because why not? What stops that if the people have already shown they don't care?
A republic is an empire of laws, not of men.
And the oath of office, 5 USC 3331, is to support and defend the Constitution. Not a person.
It may be we're out of virtue and don't deserve the Constitution anymore.
Other failures:
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/faa-knew-of-potent...
The gambit to solve the staffing issues by moving Newark's sector [1] from New York TRACON to Philadelphia TRACON:
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...
[1] TRACON approach and departure near to a specific airport, ~30-50 miles around an airport, excludes tower, excludes ARTCC a.k.a. "center" or en-route control. Tower controllers look out the window, and TRACON controllers are in a dark room with radar screens.
Global Crossing Airlines Inc.
Logo looks like GlobalX, and the company is also often referred to as GlobalX.
Flights use the callsign "gemini".
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...
And he is not related to Brian Krebs.
The solution liberals recoil against for some reason, is disassociation. We should have threatened our Trumper friends and family with permanent disassociation before the 2024 election.
Most would still persist, unpersuaded. They're likely lost for our lifetime. But perhaps enough would have taken the social cue of ridicule and ostracizing as serious enough to not vote for a psychopath. The farther back, the more effective it would have been.
Instead, we keep thinking they can be persuaded with reason, despite all evidence they've abandoned rationality.
We can't legislate the outcome you want. What you want comes from virtue. And America is out of virtue. People voted for a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist.
America may not deserve Constitutional order, and therefore we are losing it.
John Adams told us the Constitution is intended for a moral (or virtuous) people.
The point is the law isn't self enforcing. People have to insist upon Constitutional order, not because of (blind) faith in it, but because the alternative is tyranny. Not anarchy.
Does this country deserve Constitutional order? The People abandoned it by electing someone virulently and openly opposed to it.
The regulation you seek is utterly meaningless in an autocracy. Or even in a unitary executive theory of Constitutional order.
But in the specific case of Trump, among the most untrustworthy liars America has produced, what does Constitutional duty mean to him? What does it mean that he took the oath of office? He said the words but no serious person believes he took an oath.
People still have no idea what we've done. And what is yet to come.
The POTUS is a psycho. And the replacements aren't good people either.
100 days down, 1369 to go. It's going to get much worse.
Seems like what's happening is unsurprising. A nation of spectators, not citizens.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia, posted this article (with gift link) with the comment:
This is of course bizarre and crazy, but since it's the US's National Security Council, it's not something to read and just say, "wow, that's just nuts!"
THIS insanity shouldn't just scare Americans. Given the power of the US it should scare the whole world.
https://bsky.app/profile/ilvestoomas.bsky.social/post/3lntiz...
If you work for the FAA, and you were forced to sign an NDA that prohibits post-employment disclosures of anything other than classified information, please call a lawyer.
NOW.
https://bsky.app/profile/bradmossesq.bsky.social/post/3lnobz...
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/conservative-judge-doesnt-pu...
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This — the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest today of a sitting judge — against the backdrop that the President of the United States is, at this same moment, defying an April 10 Order of the Supreme Court of the United States ... - April 25, 2025
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https://bsky.app/profile/judgeluttig.bsky.social/post/3lnnzb...
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To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest is at once to know to a certainty that neither the state courts nor the federal courts could ever even hope to administer justice if the spectacle that took place in Judge Dugan’s courthouse last Friday April 18 took place in the courthouses across the country. - April 25, 2025
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https://bsky.app/profile/judgeluttig.bsky.social/post/3lnnxq...
This is what happens with the authoritarian faction, present in all societies, wins an election. The people who stand for the Constitutional order didn't do enough. Whether they weren't sufficiently positive persuasive or negatively persuasive, here we are with President Psycho in office.
The law didn't fail. Order didn't fail. The self-governed, the people, failed to support and defend the Constitution.
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While he was at work, and it also contained photographs of him walking his dog taken by a drone.
This is mafia shit.
The Government may not rely on its own failure to circumvent its own ruling that Abrego Garcia could not be removed to El Salvador. More importantly, the Government cannot be permitted to ignore the Fifth Amendment, deny due process of law, and remove anyone it wants, simply because it claims the victims of its lawlessness are members of a gang. Nor can the Government be permitted to disclaim any ability to return those it has wrongfully removed by citing their physical presence in a foreign jurisdiction.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ab...
>That's why all they could say was 'facilitate', and why they had to slap the lower judge's wrist.
That's an incomprehensible interpretation of what the Supreme Court actually wrote:
The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority.
What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.