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Isaac Seder
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& @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @WhiteHouse.senate.gov
Truth is, #DirectorKashPatel simply can't say "No" to his girlfriend.

He can swear "to support and defend the U.S. Constitution…and well and faithfully discharge my duties…so help me God".

He simply can't tell her to "Call a cab."
Kash Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins (right) holds the Bhagavad Gita (instead of the Bible, as Patel insisted), as US Attorney General Pam Bondi (out of frame) administers the oath to Patel, swearing him in as FBI Director (2/21/25). 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎/𝐺𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Oh yes, after all, because #SenRogerMarshall is beholden not only to his former First Congressional District (KS-01), but now to all of Kansas, here's the state's sixth rural hospital at risk for closing because of Trump/GOP cuts to Medicaid:
Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg (KS-04):
A picture showing the list of Kansas rural hospitals at risk of closing, six in all, because of the recent cuts to Medicaid contained in the Trump/GOP so-called "Big Beautiful Bill."
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
Cute moneybags pix, George—but clearly the $50K given Homan was fee for service: consulting/maximizing opportunities of client's winning competitive/lucrative gov't. contracts.
As for Cava's "brown take-out bag" that conveyed Homan's $50K—actually they're fashionable 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑑'𝑎𝑟𝑡, all the DC rage.
Vertical triptych: 1) The top photo shows a large brown bag, with "CAVA" in white, capital block letters printed horizontally along the bottom of the bag's front panel; & "DOWNLOAD" in all block caps printed vertically—& reading upwards—along the bag's side panel. 2) On the left side of the middle panel, a photo shows a person's legs only from the thigh tops down, shod in blue jeans fashionably-shorn with careful tears running the length of the right thigh from the knee on up; & on the left leg, one tear at the knee. A large yellow bag, imprinted on the front with "CAVA" in big black block capital letters, waves across the middle of the photo, swinging, apparently, from the unseen hands of the photo's fashionably hip subject. The sneakers & lower calves of a second subject appear in deep shadow behind the CAVA bag. 3) The bottom panel shows a close-up of the front that same yellow bag, with "CAVA" gleaming out in those same big black block uppercase letters. The photo shows a large brown bag, with "CAVA" in white, capital block letters printed horizontally along the bottom of the bag's front panel; & "DOWNLOAD" in all block caps printed vertically—& reading upwards—along the bag's side panel. The bag rests on what appears to be a kitchen counter. Behind it, a framed window leads visually out to green & brown shrubs & branches. A photo of a large yellow bag, imprinted on the front with "CAVA" in big black block capital letters along the top of the bag's front. A tiled beige wall rises behind the bag.
October 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
3/Further evidence one way or another:
Trump's "TruthSocial" post (9/27/25, 6:30pm): It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That's right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as "Law Enforcement Officials." I want to know who each and every one of these so-called "Agents" are, and what they were up to on that now "Historic" Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of "Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians" to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That's two in a row, Corney and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN! 12.7k ReTruths 38.2k Likes Sep 27, 2025, 6:30 PM
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
""On the list of support that he believes, in that statement, Ukraine needs to win the war, he doesn't include anything specific from the US." — @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
Well, yes, but only if you conclude that "the financial support of…in particular, NATO“ somehow excludes the US.
Quote from President Trump's statement on Ukraine: "“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. “Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that! Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
September 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
#SenLisaMurkowski's "Yes" vote tied the count at 50-50, handing #VPVance the tie-breaker & #TrumpReign the victory.
So above all, it was #SenLisaMurkowski who determined the outcome.
Did she also cheer?

I guess girls really do rule.
A black box screenshot of a tweet (an "Xcom") from Anne Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) stating: "They just passed the spending bill with Vance breaking the tie at 50-50. Murkowski is the reason this just passed."
July 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Looks & sounds like Katherine Hepburn:
At the left, a "watercolor-effected" sketch of Katherine Hepburn's face and hair, her eyes cast upwards & rightward towards the words of one of her famous quotes: "The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated."
July 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
No matter. We know it will strike Alabama…
Sept. 4, 2019, At the Resolute Desk in Oval Office, President Trump holds up a map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path clearly altered with a black Sharpie (reportedly Trump's favorite writing implement) to include Alabama.
July 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
In white, red-edged lettering on navy blue background, a bumper sticker proclaims at its prominent center an electoral ticket of "Scarborough" & "Steele," describing them at the top left, just above a ribbon of red stars, as "Constitutional Conservatives," & promising at the bottom to "Restore America." At the bottom left & upper right corners, red & white flourishes stream as if on the wind.
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Unless that something is a beautiful rendezvous w/beautiful Stormy Daniels when she beautifully smites your beautiful hindquarters.
"From that moment on, he was a completely different person.…He was like, 'Wow, you — you are special. You remind me of my daughter.'—Stormy
www.npr.org/2018/03/25/5...
The cover of "Political Power: Stormy Daniels," a 24-page graphic book from TidalWave Productions: A caricature of Stormy Daniels in a cleavage-disclosing violet dress, seated on a low divan at the foot of a king-size bed, with a caricature of Donald Trump sprawled across her lap, offering up his trousered flanks to the rolled-up magazine she clasps in her raised right fist as, lifting his suit jacket with her left hand, she treats him to a sound round of spanking. Trump's head hangs upside down, wedged between the front of the divan & Stormy's bare left calf, mirroring his characteristic crimson tie that drapes askew off his neck over the top of Stormy's closed-toe black stilettos— as his face, inverted, peers out forward, his features contorted somewhere among astonishment, terror & euphoria. [— https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596868354/stormy-daniels-shares-graphic-details-about-alleged-affair-with-trump ]
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
I guess I know her intent—but don't her words reflect her true feelings/attitude: condescendingly proprietorial? («𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑠.»)

In her surely well-meaning but ultimately feckless X-post, she prays for the "the victims."

They're dead. Is she praying Heaven won't reject their souls for being Jewish?
A photo of US Attorney General Pam Bondi's post on "X" tonight after the murders of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers outside Washington, DC's Capital Jewish Museum. Bondi wrote: "I am on the scene of the horrible shooting outside the Washington, DC Capital Jewish Museum with @USAttyPiro. Praying for the victims of this violence as we work to learn more."
May 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
@crampell.bsky.social
Pardon the interruption, & not that it's at all relevant to the issues at hand, but am I the only one who sees Catherine Rampell's resemblance to the late actress Darlene Fleugal?
A photo of the late actress Catherine Rampell in her early years.
May 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
You don't have to be Catholic—or even a believer, Ron Reagan, Jr.—to admire/mourn Pope Francis, & feel the deeply blasphemous/contemptuous offense:
"We just buried our beloved Pope Francis & the Cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to select a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us."
An all too temperate & courteous post on "X" from the NY State Catholic Conference in reply to Donald Trump's obscene Truth Social post of an AI-generated photo of himself costumed & posed as the white-robed Pontiff (see further description below). On "X", the NTSCC wrote "There is nothing funny or clever about this image, Mr. President. We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the Cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to select a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us." In Trump's obscene self-portrait, a large gold crucifix hangs around his neck, & a gold mitre crowns his head, as he gestures with his raised right index finger as tho emphasizing a point.
May 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
2/
•Oblivious to the Vatican's official deep mourning period marked by Catholics worldwide in true grieving for the Church's spiritual leader Francis' passing
•Ignorant of the Pontiff's vital significance for Catholics:
The depraved/dissolute deviant contemptuously mocks the conclave's devout rite.
Donald Trump, who told reporters after Pope Francis' funeral that he should be selected as the new Pope, poses in an AI-generated photo as the white-robed Pontiff, with a large gold crucifix hanging around his neck, & crowned with a gold mitre, gesturing with husy raised right index finger as tho emphasizing a point (altho his AI-simulated hands appear noticeably larger than his real ones).
May 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
Nothing is beyond the powers of the Economic Super-genius King of Bankruptcies Businessman.
Against the background of a huge, wind-rippling American flag, a muscles-rippling Donald Trump, decked out in a red-white-&-blue superhero costume & labeled "MAGA MAN," glowers.
May 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
How reasonable is the 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝐷𝑂𝐽 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 of "facilitate"?
•As historically understood in context of Immigration law:
•Taking all steps to remove any 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 obstacles to Abrego Garcia's return to US.
Wh/in context—they argue—is the only tenable or constitutional reading of “facilitate.”
Sensible?
Excerpt from "DEFENDANTS’ [Bondi DOJ's] RESPONSE PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR ADDITIONAL RELIEF" & thanx to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social : "Defendants understand “facilitate” to mean what that term has long meant in the immigration context, namely actions allowing an alien to enter the United States. Taking “all available steps to facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia is thus best read as taking all available steps to remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here. Indeed, no other reading of “facilitate” is tenable—or constitutional—here." Cited excerpt is at p. 3 of full document, at: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.65.0.pdf
April 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
It turns out that it's not an "𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛'𝑠" thought ("current or expected beliefs") that determines if he or she is "𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒," but Mr. Rubio's 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡—his "𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓" that allows "The Secretary of State" to "𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒" if he/she "compromises a compelling US foreign policy interest." 1/
Excerpt from Secretary of State Rubio's memo to Secretary of Homeland Security Noem (3/07/25): "Under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(ii), for cases in which the basis for this determination is the alien’s past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful, the Secretary of State must personally determine that the alien’s presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest."
April 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Wha? Me worry?
A picture of Alfred E. Neuman as a maintenance worker, in front of a storage locker that contains about 10 Alfred E. Neuman robot dolls stowed away in woven baskets, at least two of which have fallen to the locker floor. The dolls appear in various sorts of dress—from t-shirts to young girls' dresses. Maintenance worker Alfred has apparently downloaded one of the robot dolls from the storage locker and is about to roll it elsewhere—presumably in anticipation of activating it somewhere in society.
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
Trump is unable to distinguish between:
1) a "trade deficit" US may incur w/a foreign nation
&
2) a "tariff" that nation may add to US imports.
His "Tariff Formula" provides clear evidence that his understanding/mental fitness stops at "Person/Woman/Man Camera/TV":
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
A white poster with (unless otherwise indicated below) black lettering, titled: "The White House formula for calculating tariffs". The next line, on the left, says: "Trade deficit with China", & on the right: "Imports from China". Below that, the sign says: "$291.9 bil“ [i.e., trade deficit] “÷ $433.8 bil" [i.e., imports]. Then, the following line reads: "is equal to…" & below that: "0.6728 or" [in red letters:] "67%" And below those numbers, also printed in red, on two lines: "What the US says China charges" Below that line, in black letters: "That figure divided by 2 is…" And the next line, in larger red print: "34%"; followed, on two lines in red letters: "New 'reciprocal' tariff on China".
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
On Signal???
The medium is the message:
bsky.app/profile/zacs...
@crow.house.gov
@davidjolly.bsky.social
@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
On a cobalt blue rectangular background that might well be a media screen or a desktop, the phrase "THE MEDIUM Is THE MESSAGE". On 3 sides of the rectangle, arms extend into view: on the top side, two hands hold an open tablet; on the right side, two hands hold an open book; on the bottom right side, one hand extends its index finger to touch an image of an open book on a touch-screen desktop computer; on the bottom left side, 1 arm holds a newspaper open to the front page.
March 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
zacseder.bsky.social
Belgrade's historic day of anger: Hundreds of thousands of Serbians protest for 'laws and justice that work' — https://images.app.goo.gl/sKJ7j9UW6fpvKaxu7 Amid mass protests in Belgrade, Serbia’s Vučić faces mounting pressure from the streets — https://images.app.goo.gl/AGFfY19DyDcwoyyM6 Serbs Protest Against Vucic For Third Straight Week — https://www.rferl.org/a/serbs-protest-against-vucic-for-third-straight-week/29671257.html
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Photographic disinformation: Pictured here together, shaking hands, the photo "asserts" the 2 men share the same echelon: The conman, frame left, who truly believes his false sincerity, his smiling kow-towing, his credulous boot-licking will take in/win over the savage butcher tyrant on the right,
Trump, seated on the left, & Putin, seated on the right, grasp hands in the center. The US "Stars & Stripes" & the Russian "Tricolor," hang silently behind them.
March 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Melania Trump puckers for a kiss with Justin Trudeau as Grump Frump stews.
March 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Picture of smoking embers glowing yellow & orange, with this motto written over in capital letters: "MAGA WAS HERE."
March 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
zacseder.bsky.social
Is rupture in the ranks Trump's attempted ploy to lever #ChudoYudo into talks?

"He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in."
—Edwin Markham (≈1926)
A placard from 'internetpoem.com', as indicated in miniscule gold letters below & to the left of the epigram printed on an all-blue background: "He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in." By Edwin Markham, whose name appears just below his mini-portrait printed just below the poem.
March 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM