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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

One fun thing about the court shit.  The libs are using a tactic devised by fascists -- the nationwide injunction -- against them.  Most of the earliest ones were granted by Texas federal judges against the Obama administration.

Well, how ya like them apples?

Future justice Aileen Cannon will fix any judicial problems that trump is facing, duhhhhhh

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41 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep. Think about it. We all get a Tesla with a laid off government worker who has to be in it (since FSD does not work)  and bam. Fuck you Amtrak.

Nah, that $30K severance will be paid out in Tesla's or Tesla shares.

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47 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep. Think about it. We all get a Tesla with a laid off government worker who has to be in it (since FSD does not work)  and bam. Fuck you Amtrak.

How often do you get into a taxi or ride share that isn’t driven by an immigrant?

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Setting the bigotry and ignorance aside, this is just rank stupidity and silliness:

 

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13 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Setting the bigotry and ignorance aside, this is just rank stupidity and silliness:

 

 

"Jesus Loves the Little Children" is WOKE!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-education-department.html?smid=url-share

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President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials.

The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But the Trump administration has already taken steps to narrow the agency’s authority and significantly cut its work force while telegraphing plans to try to shutter it.

The White House officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plans, said the order instructed Ms. McMahon to return authority over education to the states.

USA Today was first to report Mr. Trump’s intent to sign the order on Thursday.

Republican attempts to shutter the agency date back to the 1980s. But the push gained steam in recent years after a parents’ rights movement grew out of a backlash to school policies and shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

That movement, which includes key pro-Trump, grass-roots activists, expanded around opposition to progressive agendas that promoted mandating certain education standards and inclusive policies for L.G.B.T.Q. students. Activists contended that these policies undermined parental rights and values.

But the hyper-partisanship around education issues has been present for decades, from progressive-leaning teachers’ unions who organized against President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policies to conservative Republican presidential candidates in 2016 who ran against the Common Core standards elevated by President Barack Obama’s “Race to the Top” program.

Caught in the middle are the nation’s 50 million public school pupils, 15 percent of whom have disabilities. Also watching the debate are undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants because they qualify as low-income (nearly one-third of all college students) and those who receive federal student loans (about 28 percent).

Public schools are mostly funded by taxes collected by states and municipalities that, by definition, already have control over that money. The federal government accounts for about 10 percent of total school funding, but that is distributed by the Education Department largely according to federal law — not the discretion of the president.

That balance of power in Washington explains, at least in part, why no modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department. The Education Department was created by an act of Congress in 1979, and federal lawmakers would have to approve of eliminating it.

Shuttering the Education Department is broadly unpopular, public opinion surveys show. Multiple polls in the past month have shown that roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose the idea.

Mr. Trump’s order is expected to spark another legal fight for the administration, which is already embroiled in multiple lawsuits.

No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department. Other agencies, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board, were phased out under Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, but with the support of Congress through legislation.

Additionally, no cabinet-level department has been abolished outright since the U.S. Postal Service replaced the Post Office Department more than half a century ago, and many of the programs the Education Department administers provide a lifeline to schools and students that most lawmakers have been hesitant to jeopardize in the past.

Still, Republican lawmakers have already shown unusual deference to Mr. Trump, even as he has taken steps to challenge Congress’s authority in several areas while flexing his own. Notably, he directed agencies not to spend funds already authorized by Congress on programs he dislikes, a move that is banned under current law and may be unconstitutional.

Closing the department would not by itself revoke the various laws that established federal funding for public schools and underserved school districts or for specific student populations, including those with disabilities. Furthermore, many education policies are controlled by other agencies, and the department does not oversee schools on military bases or in Native American territories.

The Education Department has already reoriented itself to pick up many of Mr. Trump’s goals by winding down investigations started under the previous administration; starting new ones reflecting its own priorities; rolling back protections for transgender students; and cracking down on diversity programs.

 

 

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Certainly seems like the republican party is the political party of choice for pedophiles.

It’s a feature, not a bug
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Posted
11 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

If Cannon is nominated, at least there won’t be push back to the idea that cunt was bought and paid for by turnip. Totally in the bag. Like we always knew.

No no no! She’s just a dumbass!

Lulz. 

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8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

what a fucking snowflake ....

@lemondefr reports that a French research traveling to the United States for a conference was denied entry by CBP because a border agent searched his phone and found comments criticizing President Trump.

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html


How do they search your phone? 

Posted
39 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


How do they search your phone? 

 

hold to your face to open

maybe he was posting stuff online and that flagged him

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Sorry granma, there's no money for your prescriptions but the President gets to put in a fucking concrete patio.


 

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We should ALL be grateful the children have left. What says you, @realgreggym

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17 hours ago, bluto said:

The rumor mill is running that Alito and Thomas will step down so Trump can reload. At the top of the list…. No not Frank Stallone… Aileen cannon. 

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5 minutes ago, Underdog said:

We should ALL be grateful the children have left. What says you, @realgreggym

He’s a coward and that thread he put up about his orange god king put a glaring spotlight on exactly who he is. He’s been one for the entirety of his existence. The guy is around 70+ or so and he’s never done a single thing that was not in some way beneficial to him or the image others might have of him. 
 

It’d be nice if some of the newer Longhorn basketball alumni saw the stuff he writes on here while simultaneously trying to be their friend when he sees them at events or athletic department functions. He’s an embarrassing human being. 

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4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

It’d be nice if some of the newer Longhorn basketball alumni saw the stuff he writes on here while simultaneously trying to be their friend when he sees them at events or athletic department functions. He’s an embarrassing human being.

He's almost like a MAGA derka when you put it that way

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How do they search your phone? 

CBP can absolutely search your devices at a port of entry.
Which is why my devices are NOT enabled for biometric access. Password only. Want to take my phone? Have at it, I’ll buy a new one. But I’m not going to grant you access to something that can get you to confidential client information. Take my phone and brick it.
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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


CBP can absolutely search your devices at a port of entry.
Which is why my devices are NOT enabled for biometric access. Password only. Want to take my phone? Have at it, I’ll buy a new one. But I’m not going to grant you access to something that can get you to confidential client information. Take my phone and brick it.

if you're on iphone, you can click the lock button 5 times to "secure lock" it and require a password to get in. Or just a good ol' fashioned reboot whenever the cops ask to see your phone. It's non-destructive and complies with their request so they can get bent

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16 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

May as well go here.  I just finished a stint on a jury in criminal court.  Very short case, judge was great, attorneys were great (very young prosecutors, wizened old "voy d-yer" defense attorney.  Jury very young (except me) but we all had the same first instinct.  

I left feeling pretty good about "local government" and the lower court system.  Everyone trying to do well, a case that could have had racial components but didn't, everyone just doing their part to make the system work well.  

At least for a moment, it got the bad taste out of my mouth.  And for a moment felt that this vulgarian fuckwit and his henchmen might not break everything.

 

Was on a Capital Murder (not seeking death penalty) case back in 2016 and came away with the same sentiment.  

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13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Wait, Barron can turn on a laptop?  That kid is going places!

Compared to Don Jr and Eric Barron must seem like a genius !

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@Brisketexan, this how it starts?


Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda

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Federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration this year are confronting a wave of threats, potentially compromising their personal safety and the independence of the judiciary.

The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, and lower court judges who hit pause on some of President Trump's efforts to dismantle federal agencies and programs have been singled out on social media.

Republican lawmakers close to the president even have proposed impeachment proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.

Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency making cuts to federal agencies, himself has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching judges who delay or block parts of Trump's agenda.

Efforts to undermine the judiciary come at the same time the Trump administration has moved to fire lawyers inside the Justice Department and the Pentagon, penalize private law firms who represented clients Trump does not like, and to back away from participation in the activities of the American Bar Association.

Judge Richard Sullivan, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, said in his lifetime four federal judges have been killed in retaliation for their work on the bench.

"This is not hypothetical," Sullivan, who leads a Judicial Conference panel on security issues, told reporters in a news conference this week. The Judicial Conference is a representative body of federal judges that frames policies for courts. "It's real. It's happened before. We have to be certain that it doesn't happen again," he said.

The Federal Judges Association, a voluntary group of more than 1,000 judges across the nation, said the judiciary plays a "critical role in preserving democracy and a law-abiding society."

"Judges must be able to do their jobs without fear of violence or undue influence," the group said in a written statement to NPR.

Early threats

One thing stands out to legal experts: these attacks on judges are coming at a very early stage in the legal process — often, before the Supreme Court weighs in as the final decider.

"We have a system of justice that allows for appeals," Judge Jeffrey Sutton, chief judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, told reporters this week. "That's typically the way it works. Impeachment is not and shouldn't be a short-circuiting of that process. And so it is concerning if impeachment is used in a way that is designed to do just that."

Only 15 federal judges have faced impeachment, mostly for allegations of wrongdoing such as bribery, corruption or perjury, in the past couple of centuries.

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said the odds of a successful judicial impeachment are pretty low, and to remove a judge from the bench would require a two-thirds vote from the Senate.

"The more that people like Elon Musk are putting on the wall the idea that it's appropriate to attack these judges for nothing more than ruling against the federal government, the more that we're normalizing what really are in the main very serious threats to judicial independence," Vladeck said.

"Jeopardize the rule of law"

But Paul Grimm, who spent 26 years as a federal judge, said even the threat of impeachment can amount to intimidation.

"And if you try to intimidate judges, if that's your goal, so that they do not do their constitutional duty, then you jeopardize the rule of law," said Grimm, who leads the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. "And without the rule of law, every liberty and every right that we cherish as Americans is vulnerable."

Grimm said he worries a lot about online posts that display the home and work addresses of judges and their adult children, a step that he said "crosses the line."

Nearly five years ago, an angry litigant shot and killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey.

In 2022, a California man carrying a gun and zip ties traveled to the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He turned away after spotting a security detail there. The man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted assassination of the justice, and awaits trial this year.

And in 2023, a state court judge in Maryland was gunned down in his driveway.

Attacks over rulings

The U.S. Marshals say threats against federal judges have doubled in recent years, according to the most recent data. And those threats have been directed at both Democratic and Republican judges.

Justice Barrett came under withering criticism this month from some right-wing political commentators, after she voted alongside Chief Justice John Roberts and the liberals on the high court against Trump's effort to freeze foreign aid.

Lower court judges have faced online attacks for their early rulings on Musk's DOGE team, efforts to restore government web pages and the freeze on foreign aid.

The Marshals protect judges, but they also report to the U.S. attorney general, not to the courts themselves. That's got some members of Congress on alert.

"A judge's security is dependent in many ways on the Marshals Service who the president appoints to protect the judges, and if a president doesn't like a decision that's coming from a judge, theoretically they could pull their security," Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said at a congressional hearing this month.

The administration has already yanked protection this year from former military and national security officials who disagreed with Trump in his first term.

Swalwell said Congress should consider giving judges their own security force — one that's independent from the White House.

 

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-kidnapping-evidence-b2717730.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/19/trump-abducted-ukrainian-kids/82541604007/

 

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A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin

Trump administration still simpin for Putin

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

We’re deploying an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the Gulf of Mexico to guard our southern border.

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/uss-gravely-texas-gulf-coast-deployment-southern-border-mexico/

The trump administration promised to invoke the insurrection act within 90 days to "obtain complete operational control of the southern border". Deploying an AEGIS DDG will certainly fuckin' further that particular mission.

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

if you're on iphone, you can click the lock button 5 times to "secure lock" it and require a password to get in. Or just a good ol' fashioned reboot whenever the cops ask to see your phone. It's non-destructive and complies with their request so they can get bent

I thought it was A-B-A-B-A-B-Up-Down-Up-Down?  Or was that NES?

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Posted
8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

*Gulf of America

That article calls it everything from "The Gulf" to the "waters off the Texas coast."  It avoids calling it the "Gulf of" anything.

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8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

*Gulf of America

We are in Mexico for spring break and our captain on United referred to it as the Gulf of America.  Curious whether that’s an instruction from management. 

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3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

That article calls it everything from "The Gulf" to the "waters off the Texas coast."  It avoids calling it the "Gulf of" anything.

Noticed that as well

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2 minutes ago, Disco Strangler said:

To me, it will always be El Golfo de Los Estados Unidos.  Just the same way that the ComManDerS will forever be known to me as The Washington Football Team.

Fuck that, I like some of these names.

Early European 16th-century maps such as those by Juan de la Cosa and Martin Waldseemüller depicted the eastern extremity of the gulf, though left it unlabeled.[13] Hernán Cortés called it "Sea of the North" (Spanish: Mar del Norte) in his dispatches, while other Spanish explorers called it the "Gulf of Florida" (Golfo de Florida) or "Gulf of Cortés" (Golfo de Cortés).[13] A 1584 map by Abraham Ortelius also labeled it as the "Sea of the North" (Mare de Nort).[14] Other early European maps called it the "Gulf of St. Michael" (Latin: Sinus S. Michaelis),[15] "Gulf of Yucatán" (Golfo de Iucatan),[16] "Yucatán Sea" (Mare Iuchatanicum),[17] "Great Antillean Gulf" (Sinus Magnus Antillarum), "Cathayan Sea" (Mare Cathaynum), or "Gulf of New Spain" (Spanish: Golfo de Nueva España).[13] At one point, New Spain encircled the gulf, with the Spanish Main extending into what later became Mexico and the southeastern United States.[14]

 

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14 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

We are in Mexico for spring break and our captain on United referred to it as the Gulf of America.  Curious whether that’s an instruction from management. 

Flight back from Guatemala last week on American.  Captain just said "our flight over the Gulf." 

Easy sidestep.  Just trying to get everyone from point A to point B safely.  

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7 minutes ago, Disco Strangler said:

To me, it will always be El Golfo de Los Estados Unidos.  Just the same way that the ComManDerS will forever be known to me as The Washington Football Team.

I guess i should be happy that it's not The Gulf of the Washington Redskins Suck It Libs and Slavery was Mischaracterized as Bad and We're All Going to be Very, Very Rich, That I Can Tell You. 

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Just now, Chooky said:

I guess i should be happy that it's not The Gulf of the Washington Redskins Suck It Libs and Slavery was Mischaracterized as Bad and We're All Going to be Very, Very Rich, That I Can Tell You. 

I'm probably not the only one, but I read your posts as the character in your avatar. makes things even better.

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21 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

But, I mean....y'all know what's NOT domestic terrorism?

This:

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Y'all are already in a violent civil war.  It's long past time you grasped that fact.

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