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Biff from the Driftless
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Smith had hopes the Senate would give him an open hearing but that appears unlikely, due to the machinations of Ron Johnson and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Iowa Senator Charles E. Grassley.

Bluster away but then fight the open hearing. Whatcha got to hide Ron?
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WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …

"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."

She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
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Dick Cheney is dead. He simply could not suffer living in a world where he was no longer the most evil and destructive piece of shit that America ever produced.
Dodgeville WI - Population 5000 - 780 attendees besting June numbers by 200
No Kings - Dodgeville WI
780 in attendance beating the last No Kings by 200 attendees!
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ICYMI: Tom Tiffany deleted a bunch of stuff off his campaign site to try and seem less extreme. We think the people of Wisconsin deserve to see what he thought made him look too extreme to be governor. Take a look: https://web.archive.org/web/20250912232956/https://tomtiffany.com/issues/

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Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
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Hey, is that Wisconsin's own Bryan Steil standing up there as GOPs call No Kings protestors terrorists?

Keep in mind when anyone says that fascist bum is "reasonable".

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Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."
When did this become acceptable?
There's also this report from the libertarian slanted Cato Institute.

www.cato.org/blog/politic...
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WisDems @wisdems.org · Sep 12
#WI03 Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted 197 times about the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, many of which are personal attacks, invitations for civil war, and calls for violence. He is going completely unchecked by his own party as he pours gasoline on an open flame. shorturl.at/O7EJc
After Charlie Kirk assassination, Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden fans the flames • Wisconsin Examiner
Instead of showing leadership and calling for calm, Rep. Van Orden capitalized on a horrific assassination to fan partisan hate
wisconsinexaminer.com
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SCOTUS takes another step toward fascism, says being hispanic is grounds for temporary detention by ICE. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
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This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.
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RFK Jr. now says he never made unsubstantiated claims that SSRIs could be to blame for school shootings and accuses Senator Tina Smith of making it up and being dishonest.

Once again RFK Jr. proves he's nothing but a liar.
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With just the amount of money the top 1% receive in tax cuts next year under the Republican tax scheme, you could buy every single Major League Baseball team, pay the annual salaries of every player in the 4 major U.S. pro sports leagues, and still have $19 billion left over.
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POCAN: Just tell me coincidence or not. In Project 2025, abolishing the Dept of Education. You guys are doing. Is that a coincidence?

VOUGHT: The president's agend--

POCAN: Ending DEI?

VOUGHT: The president--

POCAN: Shifting FEMA costs to the states? Ending PBS and NPR? Banning trans people?