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Engineering, technology, & politics. Formerly DoD Civ & USN. Views are my own. 🇺🇸
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Archdeacon: ‘I just can’t believe this has happened’
It began with an unexpected phone call and sadly it ended with one, too.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The Kavanaugh Stop is now happening.
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

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Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. " But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme. Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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For my friends everything, for my enemies the law
September 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Why is Dem leadership so pathetic?Leverage this to get the plaque honoring the Capitol Police reinstalled? Nah?

www.axios.com/2025/09/18/c...
House Democrats fume about vote to honor Charlie Kirk: "We're being totally set up"
The vote has been the topic of frenzied discussions in Democrats' closed-door meeting this week.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Ol' "No Wars" is either staging for war or wasting 10's of millions per day. Perhaps both.

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US sending F-35s to Puerto Rico as military buildup in the Caribbean continues
The 10 F-35s are being deployed after the Navy sent ships and a submarine to the waters near Venezuela last month.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Would love some reporting about how this change will cost taxpayers
karaswisher.bsky.social Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 6
Speaking of mission-creep of being stupidly provocative, the takeover of the brain of the owner of the @washingtonpost.com is complete
September 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Once again, we should simply abolish the Senate advice & consent process, as currently structured. It is completely useless & has totally failed in its sole purpose of screening out malevolently incompetent senior government officials.

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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My guy, Trump's longest serving chief of staff, a retired 4 star general and gold star father, said that he believed Trump was a fascist and would rule as a dictator.
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves Graham Greene in Maverick Graham Greene in The Last of Us Graham Greene in Marvel’s Echo
September 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Heads I win, tails you lose
September 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Updated this story @taskandpurpose.com. Ohio and South Carolina are joining West Virginia in sending National Guard troops in DC. That brings the number of Guardsmen activated for this to ~1,500. taskandpurpose.com/news/west-vi...
3 states sending 700 National Guard troops to DC
At least 700 National Guard troops will be sent to Washington, D.C., nearly doubling the number of Guardsmen active in the capital.
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August 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Recall that the bodies of those killed were still in the river when Trump, Hegseth, Vance, etc blamed DEI for this accident

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Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67
A long list of things went wrong in January and contributed to the collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.
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August 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The @nytimes.com "The Daily" podcast on the US/EU trade deal, which sounded like it was produced by Howard Lutnick, went to great lengths to downplay the costs of new 15% tariffs to US consumers. Only a fleeting and non-specific reference to previous tariff rates, which were close to 0%!
July 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Can confirm the New York Times report today that Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Staff, had a promotion to four-star general seemingly secured and then pulled back by Secretary Hegseth.

Sims seen in Pentagon by most as nonpartisan, straightforward and bright.
July 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Aguilar is a retired Green Beret lieutenant colonel and West Point graduate who started his career as an infantry platoon leader in Mosul with the 172nd Stryker Brigade in 2005-6, joined SF in 2008, was in 3rd SF Group as of 2015, and in 2017 competed for Best Ranger as a USASOC major.
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
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July 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
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The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jul 18
Steve Bannon joined a growing chorus of MAGA influencers coalescing behind Trump in the wake of a WSJ report about a ribald birthday letter bearing Trump's name that was sent to Jeffrey Epstein, telling CNN he believed the story had united a base that had been showing signs of fraying cnn.it/3UkLJzu
July 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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New: Tried to take a step back to look at how/why the Epstein story is bigger than a conspiracy theory & why it might be one of the few events that cant be pushed out of the news cycle. What happens next will tell us a lot about who has power to redirect attention www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Nobody (Not Even Trump) Can Control the Epstein Story
Welcome to the era of late-stage conspiracism.
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July 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The disappointment that comes with racing to unfollow someone you've already unfollowed
July 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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When you live somewhere and disaster strikes, it makes no sense to pretend it isn’t personal. For me, there’s no other way to process terrible things than to make journalism. To my friends from home who went to Camp Mystic and Heart O' the Hills — this is for you.

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‘Goodnight, Camp Mystic. We Love You.’: A 100-Year-Old Community Honors Its Missing & Dead Girls
Fifteen children are dead and 27 girls are still missing amid devastating floods in Texas. “I’m holding onto the love and light that Mystic gave us, even in the darkest night,” one former camper said....
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July 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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R's strategy is extremely cynical and irresponsible but who will actually remember by the time these cuts actually take effect?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM