Patterico
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Joined January 2009
Anyone who supports or defends this statement is a bad person.
Reporter: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders. Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault. They were assaulted. What I did was a great thing for humanity.
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Laying the groundwork for tyranny.
New tonight Elon Musk retweets a post contemplating DOGE or the Trump administration defy a court order imposed by a federal judge “I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”
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RT @Kasparov63: The goal is to keep shaking the constitutional cage of the executive until the bars collapse. Of course they will claim to…
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RT @AGHamilton29: Yikes. I’m sympathetic to the idea of not letting the press control who gets hired, but it’s increasingly clear that so…
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If a president tried to assert control over whether money appropriated by Congress actually gets spent, that would be illegal. And if a president defied a lawful court order, as you have suggested in the past that Trump should do, that would be not just illegal but tyrannical.
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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RT @GaryMarcus: I retired from the American University system at age 49 (after 26 years) so have no direct stake in this. But am here to s…
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RT @Kasparov63: I’d like to hear Trump, or anyone, give an example of Putin caring about the Russian people. Not some dumb patriotic speech…
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RT @ScottGreenfield: The decision is only four pages. Had Senator Cotton read it, he might not say such false nonsense. Then again, he mig…
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RT @steve_vladeck: “Laws passed by Congress” are the source of the funds to which you’re objecting. Congress regularly uses the Spending C…
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RT @steve_vladeck: The way an executive branch that respects the rule of law objects to a district court ruling it doesn’t like is to *appe…
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Nice job, Bill Cassidy
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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More and more stories like this coming.
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Yes. They are laughing because their moral system is fully upside down.
Imagine having 20 years of admirable service under your belt and a 19-year-old with no government experience decides your position is "wasteful." And now you, at age 50 with two kids who are still in high school, are out of a job despite being a top performer and doing everything right. I gotta think even Trump supporters are feeling some kind of way about this.
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Congress, like Frank Sinatra, calls the shots for all those guys
What NIH purports to do here is illegal. In annual appropriations bills for the past several years, Congress has specifically banned NIH from changing indirect costs:
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RT @stuartbuck1: What NIH purports to do here is illegal. In annual appropriations bills for the past several years, Congress has specifica…
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About those hit men…
I want to take a moment to publicly honor my mom and my wife, Lyn and Caroline, for the herculean effort they put into saving me from a life sentence. They worked side-by-side, day after day, for years. Despite many setbacks and countless challenges, they never gave up. The amount of work it took to get me to where I am today is beyond what most people can probably imagine. My fellow prisoners often told me how fortunate I was to have a dedicated wife and mom like mine. Many people helped us along the way and we are deeply grateful to all of them. I would still be locked in a cell behind a prison wall were it not for all the support we received. THANK YOU!
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