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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

When I first saw this headline, I was a little worried: "Toyota recalls approximately 394,000 vehicles," but then I read the reason: "over rearview camera issue."

My 2002 Forerunner has a combo cassette and CD player, but a rearview camera? Ummm, nope.

JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

federal officers described the scene outside the ICE building in southwest Portland on Sept. 25: “low energy.” The next day the same: “low energy.”

Internal reports from the week before Mr. Trump ordered troops into Portland show that, by and large, the officers observed displays of civil […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Designating "ANTIFA" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization might seem pretty strange, considering the organization doesn't exist, but -

Trump could then name any organization he wants to wipe out, claim it's part of the FTO, arrest its leaders, freeze its bank accounts.

So in addtion to building […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@kenwhite.bsky.social The outfit has like 10,000 generals, so I'm not surprised you're one of 'em.

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Judge poised to issue TRO protecting reporters, protesters from ICE force | Courthouse News Service

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

The intense focus on immigration has raised alarm among current and former FBI agents who say morale is low across the bureau as agents have less time to dedicate to the often complex cases they were hired to work on […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Leave it to Trump to find a way to drive a wedge between Red and Blue governors. The members of the National Governor's association aren't associating much these days. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html

JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

The FBI has approximately 12,000 agents. A quarter of them have been reassigned to immigration enforcement. But this post is about James Comey, who remains well respected within the agency.

12,000 agents, not to mention all the support personnel.

No matter how hard he tries to fire everyone he […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

“It’s incredibly difficult and frustrating because we want people to live here, but we want people to live here safely, and you’re tying our hands. You’re basically saying you all but have to allow for unlimited growth and development,” Commission Chairman George Kruse told Inside Climate News […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

You would think the right and honorable thing do to when someone wins an election would be to swear them in and let them get to work. Of course, Johnson is working for a guy who tried to prevent Biden from being sworn in, so I guess he's just following by example.

Adelita Grijalva, the Tucson […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

(WaPo Exclusive) Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations. The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary Pentagon directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

(WaPo) Siebert had declined to prosecute Comey after the allegations were reinvestigated this year by career prosecutors . . .
(who) laid out their reasoning in a FORMAL DECLINATION MEMO. It cited an earlier decision not to charge Comey by a special counsel appointed during Trump’s first term […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

(WaPo) Members of his (Comey's) family — including his wife, Patrice Failor; daughter Maurene, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan fired by the Justice Department in July; and son-in-law Troy A. Edwards Jr., a former supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office that charged Comey — were in the […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Because I know a guy who has refused to by ANY remaster of #milesdavis Kind of Blue "until they fix the speed problem," well #Jazz fans, here you go. #vinyl https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/186328/Miles_Davis-Kind_of_Blue-180_Gram_Vinyl_Record

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Put 2 & 2 together. (1) FBI suspends and agent who refused to organize a perp walk for Comey; (2) Comey arrived 20 minutes early, took his seat at the table and waited for everyone else to show up.

If you don't get the connection, you've never seen a movie where they know they're probably […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

(NYT). An agent in the F.B.I.’s Washington field office was suspended after he refused to organize an escort of uniformed law enforcement officials to walk Comey into the courthouse before the news media, according to people with knowledge of the move who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

And I'm sorry things are this way, that the general public has to be dragged kicking and screaming to the truth of what's going on, but until every single news outlet starts showing the stills, the video of them attacking priests, old men and women, zip tying naked children, they'e just not […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

When we talk about Trump & his top minions, we say, "the cruelty is the point," and it's sure looking like that's a character trait they're looking for in ICE recruits. This is my guess as to what they're hoping for.

They are hoping the patience of the people protesting, the ones on the front […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Shootin' the Moon. Seriously, getting detail in a full moon has always been a problem for me with previous #iPhone camera lenses. The only way I could get something halfway decent was to get my old nikon digital out, throw on the 70-210 mm zoom, and put it on a […]

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A full moon filld the center third of the image. The moon's features are plainly visible.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm concerned the "training" being given to National Guard troops sent from one state to invade another is to study Kent State, but not it a good way.

JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm surprised Trump hasn't used taxpayer money to corner the powerball market.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

When historians write about the Republican Fascist era in the U.S., this weekend may well be the one that marks the beginning of the Second American Civil War. Unlike the First American Civil War, which officially began with secessionist military forces firing on a U.S. military fort, the Second […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

As I explained earlier, Trump sending federalized troops from one state into another without any request or consent from the second state’s governor takes us over a threshold history may well treat as the start of the Second American Civil War […]

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