Jim Tabor
@jimtabor.bsky.social
Great GrandDad, NeverTrumper, Man without a party
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If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
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Utterly corrupt. Utterly lawless. Continuing to destroy the very independence of the Justice Department. But not one member of my former political party will say a damn thing. Every Republican, every single Republican on the ballot, needs to lose in 2026. Merry Christmas.👇
Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
www.axios.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Utterly corrupt. Utterly lawless. Continuing to destroy the very independence of the Justice Department. But not one member of my former political party will say a damn thing. Every Republican, every single Republican on the ballot, needs to lose in 2026. Merry Christmas.👇
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Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.
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They’re going to destroy one of the best museum systems in the world because they’re triggered by anything that isn’t trump worshipping propaganda
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
They’re going to destroy one of the best museum systems in the world because they’re triggered by anything that isn’t trump worshipping propaganda
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How about a 60 Minutes piece investigating Trump ordering Bari Weiss to pull the plug on a 60 Minutes piece investigating Trump’s deportations 24hrs before it was set to air?
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How about a 60 Minutes piece investigating Trump ordering Bari Weiss to pull the plug on a 60 Minutes piece investigating Trump’s deportations 24hrs before it was set to air?
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Occam's razor.
DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements.
Why?
DOJ really doesn't want us to read them.
Why does DOJ care so much about these?
Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.
DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements.
Why?
DOJ really doesn't want us to read them.
Why does DOJ care so much about these?
Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Occam's razor.
DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements.
Why?
DOJ really doesn't want us to read them.
Why does DOJ care so much about these?
Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.
DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements.
Why?
DOJ really doesn't want us to read them.
Why does DOJ care so much about these?
Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.
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How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?
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This is NOT normal.
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is NOT normal.
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Sounds pretty fishy.
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Sounds pretty fishy.
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When DOJ refuses to act (especially in matters involving its own conduct) Congress can’t rely on the executive branch to police itself, so lawmakers are turning to inherent contempt to assert their authority and pursue enforcement directly.
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
When DOJ refuses to act (especially in matters involving its own conduct) Congress can’t rely on the executive branch to police itself, so lawmakers are turning to inherent contempt to assert their authority and pursue enforcement directly.
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Let’s be real, the DOJ isn’t going to prosecute itself. That’s why Congress is talking about using its own authority to step in using its own constitutional powers to enforce accountability.
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Let’s be real, the DOJ isn’t going to prosecute itself. That’s why Congress is talking about using its own authority to step in using its own constitutional powers to enforce accountability.
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Just a week ago, 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley said the new owners had not meddled in content decisions. That clearly changed today. The only question is why and given the folks involved (ellison, Weiss), we’ll probably learn the road leads straight to trump.
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just a week ago, 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley said the new owners had not meddled in content decisions. That clearly changed today. The only question is why and given the folks involved (ellison, Weiss), we’ll probably learn the road leads straight to trump.
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WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
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Do it
Schiff: "I think we ought to bring Pam Bondi before the Senate Judiciary Committee demand answers as to why the DOJ has violated the law."
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Do it
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The only explanation for why Trump is willing to take such a huge political hit keeping these Epstein files hidden is bcuz he knows what’s in those files about him is really, really, really, really bad. That’s the only explanation for this massive Trump led coverup.
December 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The only explanation for why Trump is willing to take such a huge political hit keeping these Epstein files hidden is bcuz he knows what’s in those files about him is really, really, really, really bad. That’s the only explanation for this massive Trump led coverup.
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I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.
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In light of the grotesque attempted renaming of the Kennedy Center.
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Trump Is Destroying JFK’s America
Kennedy’s vision of a country built up through the service of its citizens is fundamentally incompatible with the vulgar cynicism of the current president.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
In light of the grotesque attempted renaming of the Kennedy Center.
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Yeah I'm SUPER shocked the DOJ is violating the law and not releasing all the Epstein files. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED they'd continue to protect pedophiles??
Everyone. Everyone guessed.
Everyone. Everyone guessed.
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yeah I'm SUPER shocked the DOJ is violating the law and not releasing all the Epstein files. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED they'd continue to protect pedophiles??
Everyone. Everyone guessed.
Everyone. Everyone guessed.
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Let's have one of those shadow hearings.
Jack Smith still wants to speak in public:
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
Jack Smith says Americans should 'hear the fact' of Trump probes, wants deposition tapes released
Jack Smith wants the American public to “hear the facts” about his two criminal cases against Trump, asking Trump ally Jim Jordan to release video of his eight-
www.nbcnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Let's have one of those shadow hearings.
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In Kenya alone, thousands have already died and as many as 1-million are "at risk of starvation and death."
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In Kenya alone, thousands have already died and as many as 1-million are "at risk of starvation and death."
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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Donald Trump’s televised speech this week was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/ZwUx7dcZ
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Donald Trump’s televised speech this week was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/ZwUx7dcZ
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It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
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Trump taking over the Kennedy Center has the same vibes.
Elon buying twitter is not unlike when a failed comic buys a comedy club to give himself stage time.
The top story on Twitter is all the sycophants praising Elon Musk for Starlink?
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December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Trump taking over the Kennedy Center has the same vibes.
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What happens when you show fear to a bully? He bullies you some more. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
By Not Tapping Russian Assets for Ukraine, Europe Showed Its Fear
Europe has demonstrated that when faced with Russian threats and intimidation, the continent struggles to stand strong.
www.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What happens when you show fear to a bully? He bullies you some more. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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