Originally published at: Judge Calls Trump DOJ’s Bluff On Todd Blanche’s Testimony
Put Up or Shut Up Time A complicated dance is underway in the criminal case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia over his claim of vindictive prosecution by the Trump DOJ, so let me give you the toplines first: The bad news … We may not get to hear live testimony from three top DOJ officials: Deputy…
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The soon to be fiasco in Venezuela is nothing more than a conquest to steal their oil. Trump has morphed into Putin right in front of our eyes.
Long live Chevron.
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“If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!” he wrote.
Finally, having said his piece, the president bellowed in all-caps: “MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!”
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
h/t Home Alone
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More info on the 80,000 to be held in warehouses.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exploring contracts to convert industrial warehouses into high-capacity detention centers able to hold more than 80,000 people at once
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Uncommon knowledge: Trump’s boom, America’s gloom
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, called Trump’s victory laps “utterly divorced from reality,” noting that plenty of households still feel squeezed. And the polling is chilly: an AP-NORC survey this month found only about three in 10 Americans approving of Trump’s handling of the economy—down from about four in 10 in March.
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'Tis the Season 
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Trump certainly wants to defy SCOTUS on their NatGuard ruling. If it were solely up to him he’d issue the orders, and in theory it is. Who in the admin has the sway to convince him not to? Because someone is assuredly having to talk him off the ledge. Left to his own devices he’d take the leap.
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As an alternative to testilying, maybe Todd can be dipped briefly into boiling water.
And, I am confused by this:
Neo-Nazi Terror Group Steps Up US Ops
Does ICE have operations outside of the US?
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Yes, we’re all aware. We were around on 1/20/25 when they took over.
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Just in time for Christmas, the regime’s Anti-”Antifa” “Free Speech for Fascists But Not for Thee” campaign goes all in, international, loud and proud, etc., on behalf of White Christiian Fascist Nationalism. Could be right out of hte mouth of Shady Vance, excoriating German leaders for squelching their new Nazi party, for example. Trump Regime (and, one must imagine, many of its biggest backers, such as Thiel, Musk….I would guess); We will end cruelty to Nazis…today! It’s one of the world’s greatest problems.
From Carole Cadwalladr’s email and Substack today: “Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the “global censorship industrial complex”, I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it’s all I have)‘…
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fascism never sleeps. And last night - after European offices had closed for the holidays - the US state department announced “Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex” and that it would be barring five individuals from the United States.
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‘The so-called “global censorship-industrial complex” is a tiny world of academics and NGOs and journalists and policy wonks and lawmakers and disinformation researchers who for the last decade have been trying to understand the power and reach of the tech platforms, how they are invisibly controlling and manipulating our information spaces.
‘I first heard the term from a friend at a US university after she found herself described as such on a target list back in the summer of 2022. We had a good old laugh about it and have used it ironically ever since.
/But the news last night was chilling.
/The order states:
“The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states—in each case targeting American speakers and American companies. As such, I have determined that their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”…
‘…Russia introduced a “foreign agent” law in 2012 to target NGOs and it was also one of the first escalations after the invasion of Ukraine when it labelled news organisations as such and made it impossible to continue reporting inside the country. This is where this leads. This is the same accusation couched in the same language….
‘…..One of them - whom I know - is Imran Ahmed, a Brit living in the States and who, according to the order, will now be deported. He’s CEO of an organisation called Center for Countering Digital Hate and if you’ve heard of him - and this is a tell - it’s because he’s previously been targeted by Elon Musk, who’s sued him. And another is Thierry Breton, a high-profile former member of the European Commission who was instrumental in the Digital Services Act, a piece of groundbreaking legislation that has real heft and that the Silicon Valley tech companies - and now their proxy, the US government - hate.
‘But perhaps, most chilling of all on a personal level, reading this news in London was how the US government chose to communicate this news. It was the under secretary of state, Sarah B Rogers, who released the names and she did so via the UK’s far-right GB News channel:
Re the canceled 60 minutes story: ‘All credit to the correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, who spoke up to defend her work. It had been screened five times, she said, for CBS’s lawyers and editorial policy team and cleared for broadcast.
“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
“Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy Kristallnacht too” seems to be where they’re coming from.
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A Christmas Eve message from Heather & a Christmas Eve Wink from Paul:
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This administration in six words:
- Vindictive prosecution
- Performative cruelty
- Corrupt accumulation
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The universal excuse
Miller said that he didn’t “remember getting anything” when Hurt asked whether he was “contacted about this package.”
“I don’t remember anybody reaching out to me. As you know, people put things into comms inboxes and general feedback comments,” Miller said, before pivoting. “But more fundamentally, this is another pathetic 60 Minutes hatchet job.”
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Therefore I will withhold what vile language I wanted to splatter the orange monster with…
So … shifting as he did in his partisan MAGA post I will say to all thoughtful and sane folk everywhere, whatever your politics…
Happy Holidays…
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Watched it last night; and since I don’t watch commercial live TV, I would otherwise not have seen it.
Bukele and the Dotard are like sociopathic peas in a pod.
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He doesn’t have to, he has the Insurrection Act in his back pocket. IIRC, Kavanaugh even mentioned in comments that this ruling doesn’t affect his ability to do that (hint, hint).
Personally, I don’t think that’s in the cards because 1) the Guard deployments didn’t go that well and pissed off a lot of not just Democrats but Independents, and 2) US troops are not enthusiastic about becoming domestic police, they’re not trained for it, and no amount of browbeating by Hegseth will change that.
You need an enthusiastic military behind you to pull off a coup where you send the military against their own people. They could easily turn against you instead. I think Trump probably gets that on a gut level, and he’s a chickenshit at heart.
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