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Dan Izzo

@izzos.us

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Attorney (VA & DC Licensed) "Lawyers are basically just attack librarians" Posts are not legal advice. All opinions are my own

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · Oct 10

It's really not brought up enough how any Dem admin following a GOP admin has to spend pretty much its first two years just putting out arson fires set by the GOP before it can even really START to work on its own agenda.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

The only reason people are standing for it is that they play it during the 7th inning stretch l...

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

Hey @nbcnews.com you could mention this is incredibly illegal and exactly how a totalitarian dictator tries to establish personal control over the military.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

Well damn...the Father is not pulling punches.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

a man with long hair is standing in a dark room with a quote that says to crush your enemies see them driven before you

Alt: a man with long hair is standing in a dark room with a quote that says to crush your enemies see them driven before you

media.tenor.com

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

For the most part if you read Art of War and think it's some great font of revealed wisdom...it means you're a dumbass who doesnt realize some really obvious shit

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 17h

It's literally "your armies are made of PEOPLE and you need to feed them!

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 18h

"The Art of War" is literally "Warfare for Dummies." Sun Tzu was dealing with a bunch of up-jumped nobles who thought they were military geniuses and realized that he had to get teach things like logistics and "don't march your men to exhaustion and expect to win the battle" with "respect"

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 18h

do not forget to feed your troops

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 18h

Has this pissant really fallen back on "that's gay" jokes?

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 22h

Of course. It's the same people yelling about how if Dems only ran AOC's or Mamdani's in rural South Carolina districts they'd win.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

I worry this how CA ends up with a GOP governor because stories like this keep coming out and she's too full of herself to step aside.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

Even the worst of the Roman Emperors knew that if you wanted to maintain your despotic control you kept the military happy

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

Every one of these assets and deals should be seized, sold off, and the money sent towards the lost wages of federal workers wrongfully fired by this administration.

Same with Musk.

miami-gurl.bsky.social @miami-gurl.bsky.social · 1d

It's looks like Trump got the jet and a $5.5 billion dollar golf resort deal from Quatar. I knew there was more to the story!

www.newsweek.com/new-trump-go...

New Trump golf course, $5.5 billion beachside project announced for Qatar

The announcement of a golf resort in Qatar underscores the deepening ties between Trump's affiliated company and Gulf nations.

www.newsweek.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

This cursed hell portal we're in opened when the Cubs won the World Series.

Question is whether them winning it again would close it or does it need to be the Mariners or Brewers winning their first WS?

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

The most honest filing the Trump Administration has ever submitted

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

Folks...we need to come to terms with the fact that 1800 or so people "missing" after the closure of "Alligator Alcatraz" may very well have been killed by the govt.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

If he's not going to coordinate with @govpritzker.illinois.gov to get law enforcement with him to make arrests for people violating federal law he's not doing enough.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

She's a massive fan of Trump and a far right fascist. She's only the "opposition leader" because she's out of power right now. But she's openly called for Trump to topple the Venezuelan govt and install her. At which point she'll be another autocratic dictator.
Come on Rob

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

This seems like it's a bit more than just a "whoops it happens" mistake. This is "nobody bothered to look at the final pdf before it was uploaded"

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

Get some friendly LEO or Nat Guard and announce that anyone impeding will be arrested. It's time to FORCE THIS ISSUE and yes...if that means physical confrontation DO IT.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

It's just how does something like this get filed? Literally no one must have looked at the pdf before uploading it. It's insanity

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

I think I see the problem...

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

This is like the time a pro se called me a "Luciferan, Servant of Beelzebub and Agent of the British Crown" in a filing

I wanted new business cards...

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

You create THIS AI and I will gladly use it in my home.

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