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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

I don't know about you guys, but it looks like it might be a good time in the foreseeable future to commit some federal crimes.

It's like an open invitation.

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Shoot, if you’re violent enough, you could get lucky:

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-jan-6-rioters-compensation-fund-discussions

President Trump suggested Tuesday night the Jan. 6 rioters he pardonedcould get compensation payments.

The big picture: Newsmax's Greg Kelly asked Trump during their interview whether there would be a "compensation fund" for the roughly 1,500 defendants he issued a sweeping pardon for and the president confirmed "there's talk about that."

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2 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 Fucking dorks

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TIL that the VP of the US has a functioning index finger on his right hand.  Kudos to you, sir.

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9 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

TIL that the VP of the US has a functioning index finger on his right hand.  Kudos to you, sir.

Well, but when you're part of the pathetic MAGA cult, it's important to show that you have some digit to make up for your utter lack of a functioning dick.

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4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I feel bad for the children that have morons for parents. As for the parents themselves, I have zero sympathy for their feelings if their child is sick or even dies. It's their fault. I would have no problem if they were arrested for endangering a child if not manslaughter but since this is Texas, Abbott will pin a freedom medal on their chest.

As Andy Andrews says, "we celebrate gifted students all the time...where are all the gifted parents"

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8 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

As Andy Andrews says, "we celebrate gifted students all the time...where are all the gifted parents"

I remember when we were invited to a "gifted and talented" presentation at our elementary school.  The first thing the teacher in charge said was "for starters, none of your kids is gifted".  It was a good point and we never gave the program another thought.

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I don't know about you guys, but it looks like it might be a good time in the foreseeable future to commit some federal crimes.

Tax crimes looking particularly tasty.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Tax crimes looking particularly tasty.

Between that and an antitrust empire I've got in the works, it turns out I might like this Trump presidency.  

I mean, sorry for the gays, the browns, and the poors.  

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/trump-dea-atf.html?smid=url-share

The Trump administration is considering major changes in how the Justice Department operates, including by merging the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into one, according to an internal memo.

The other changes include drastically altering how the department’s public integrity section functions; downsizing the fraud-focused investigations that involve foreign business practices and foreign influence efforts; and closing down the community relations office that works to quell public unrest after police shootings.

The proposal, outlined in a memo issued by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, and obtained by The New York Times, has yet to take effect. Officials are still seeking feedback from within the department before proceeding with what current and former Justice Department officials view as a significant reorganization.

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately comment on the memo.

Overall, the Trump administration’s vision for the Justice Department, as outlined in the memo, is to downsize by consolidating some work inside its headquarters, while farming other responsibilities out to the U.S. attorney’s offices. The changes are described as part of the government’s efforts to downsize and streamline the federal work force, with help from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

The proposal to merge the D.E.A. and A.T.F. would almost certainly require congressional approval, though so far in the new administration, Congress appears to be playing a shrinking role in how the federal government is organized.

Historically, lawmakers on the appropriations committees zealously guarded their authority over the organization of agencies like the Justice Department. It is unclear if the current leaders in Congress intend to assert such authority during the Trump administration.

Administrations have long considered restructuring one or both of those two agencies, but no major reorganization has occurred since the post-Sept. 11 era, when the Department of Homeland Security was created and the A.T.F. was moved from the Treasury Department into the Justice Department.

Under the plan, antitrust offices in Chicago and San Francisco would close, as would environmental offices in Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Sacramento. Civil litigation offices in New York, Chicago, Raleigh and San Francisco would also be closed, according to the memo.

The plan also calls for reassigning tax division lawyers to U.S. attorney offices around the country, and consolidating the department’s various legal divisions, including for national security, criminal prosecutions and other matters, into one single office.

In the memo to Justice Department employees, Mr. Blanche asked for feedback on the plans by April 2.

I could probably get behind merging DEA and ATF, especially if that meant curtailing the drug war.

But what it means here is that there will be no more regulation of firearms and lots of extra-stupid drug war.

The "civil litigation office" thing is interesting, because those look like pretty active civil litigation centers and most of what Main Justice does is civil litigation.  Probably means non-enforcement of civil rights and environmental laws.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

I could probably get behind merging DEA and ATF, especially if that meant curtailing the drug war.

But what it means here is that there will be no more regulation of firearms and lots of extra-stupid drug war.

The "civil litigation office" thing is interesting, because those look like pretty active civil litigation centers and most of what Main Justice does is civil litigation.  Probably means non-enforcement of civil rights and environmental laws.

That second of the two that I bolded is the one that stood out to me as causing more potential harm. The DEA/ATF merger is what's going to get the headlines though, but I don't have much to criticize about that other than what you've stated.

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8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

That second of the two that I bolded is the one that stood out to me as causing more potential harm. The DEA/ATF merger is what's going to get the headlines though, but I don't have much to criticize about that other than what you've stated.

For reference purposes, the vast majority of legal work gets handled in the US Attorney's offices, both civil and criminal.  And, for a lot of that stuff, the people at "Main Justice" in DC are just a layer of bureaucrats.

But there are several major divisions, Civil Rights, Environmental, and Antitrust, among others, that are civil in nature and concentrated in DC.  I'm not sure if it's better to decentralize those or centralize them.  Whichever makes more sense, you can rely on Trumpco to do the opposite.

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28 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

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Wait wait whoa whoa.....WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?  Is that accurate?  Our secdef....has a fucking Russian email account?

If true -- again, imagine this was ANY other administration. That would be "game over."  There are zero, none, not a one, reason for him to have EVER had a Russian email address.

If it is even remotely true, it is beyond clear that our entire executive branch is compromised and working as agents of a foreign power.  Every person in that branch is an existential threat to the United States.

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Wait wait whoa whoa.....WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?  Is that accurate?  Our secdef....has a fucking Russian email account?

If true -- again, imagine this was ANY other administration. That would be "game over."  There are zero, none, not a one, reason for him to have EVER had a Russian email address.

If it is even remotely true, it is beyond clear that our entire executive branch is compromised and working as agents of a foreign power.  Every person in that branch is an existential threat to the United States.

This can't possibly be real.  I mean, I'm about as far out on the ledge as you can go, but this would be completely beyond the pale.

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2 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

We’re basically a Russian puppet state.

It would take an absolute fucking imbecile to not realize what is happening. Everything we have done the last two months destroys us and helps Russia. 

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It’s getting darker by the minute:

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/

Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025.

Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. 

Stanley wrote to the Daily Nous that his decision to leave was “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” On Wednesday, he told the Guardian that he chose to move after seeing how Columbia University handled political attacks from Trump. 

After the Trump administration threatened to deport two student protesters at Columbia and revoked $400 million in research funding from the school, Columbia agreed on Friday to concede to a series of demands from the Trump administration that included overhauling its protest policies and imposing external oversight on the school’s Middle Eastern studies department.

“When I saw Columbia completely capitulate, and I saw this vocabulary of, well, we’re going to work behind the scenes because we’re not going to get targeted — that whole way of thinking presupposes that some universities will get targeted, and you don’t want to be one of those universities, and that’s just a losing strategy,” Stanley told the Guardian.

“I just became very worried because I didn’t see a strong enough reaction in other universities to side with Columbia,” he added.

Yale has not released a statement addressing the revocation of Columbia’s funding. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis has told the News that he does not anticipate any changes in Yale’s free expression and protest policies. University President Maurie McInnis previously said that she is prioritizing lobbying for Yale’s interests in Washington over issuing public pronouncements

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46 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

This can't possibly be real.  I mean, I'm about as far out on the ledge as you can go, but this would be completely beyond the pale.

Yeah.....it's damning enough -- I'm talking "kill shot, and he should likely be in prison" damning -- that I need to see a lot more info to support the assertion that that is actually his email address.

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It can't be that he has a burner Russian phone and email address with his own fucking name?  

Certainly he could've come up with something better.  Something more subtle.  

Something like "whiskeyleaks@mail.ru"?

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13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah.....it's damning enough -- I'm talking "kill shot, and he should likely be in prison" damning -- that I need to see a lot more info to support the assertion that that is actually his email address.

My search skills failed to find corroborating information.

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Let's just send a message to that address.  Invite him to a kegger and see if he shows up.  Then we'll know.

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

history professors Timothy Snyder 

Snyder was on MSNBC a lot the past year or so.  Really sharp guy.  

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54 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

this go here? seems like it could go in about 6 threads

 

Sorry, the messages were already over international waters. Oops!

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Every class session from Snyder's Ukrainian History course at Yale is available YouTube and worth watching. He's a fucking great teacher

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

this go here? seems like it could go in about 6 threads

 

Haha and it's Boasberg.  Guy needs to watch his cornhole.

So far, this guy is the hero of Trump 2025.

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10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Sorry, the messages were already over international waters. Oops!

Watch the assholes claim state secrets privilege in order to avoid this. /not classified

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4 hours ago, bolverk said:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/trump-dea-atf.html?smid=url-share

The Trump administration is considering major changes in how the Justice Department operates, including by merging the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into one, according to an internal memo.

The other changes include drastically altering how the department’s public integrity section functions; downsizing the fraud-focused investigations that involve foreign business practices and foreign influence efforts; and closing down the community relations office that works to quell public unrest after police shootings.

The proposal, outlined in a memo issued by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, and obtained by The New York Times, has yet to take effect. Officials are still seeking feedback from within the department before proceeding with what current and former Justice Department officials view as a significant reorganization.

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately comment on the memo.

Overall, the Trump administration’s vision for the Justice Department, as outlined in the memo, is to downsize by consolidating some work inside its headquarters, while farming other responsibilities out to the U.S. attorney’s offices. The changes are described as part of the government’s efforts to downsize and streamline the federal work force, with help from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

The proposal to merge the D.E.A. and A.T.F. would almost certainly require congressional approval, though so far in the new administration, Congress appears to be playing a shrinking role in how the federal government is organized.

Historically, lawmakers on the appropriations committees zealously guarded their authority over the organization of agencies like the Justice Department. It is unclear if the current leaders in Congress intend to assert such authority during the Trump administration.

Administrations have long considered restructuring one or both of those two agencies, but no major reorganization has occurred since the post-Sept. 11 era, when the Department of Homeland Security was created and the A.T.F. was moved from the Treasury Department into the Justice Department.

Under the plan, antitrust offices in Chicago and San Francisco would close, as would environmental offices in Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Sacramento. Civil litigation offices in New York, Chicago, Raleigh and San Francisco would also be closed, according to the memo.

The plan also calls for reassigning tax division lawyers to U.S. attorney offices around the country, and consolidating the department’s various legal divisions, including for national security, criminal prosecutions and other matters, into one single office.

In the memo to Justice Department employees, Mr. Blanche asked for feedback on the plans by April 2.

To be fair I can’t think of anything that goes better with alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives than drugs 

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1 minute ago, NWBuck said:

 

I'm really looking forward to learning what Anonymous is quietly up to during all these revelations 

I've pinned my hopes on them before and always ended up disappointed.

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

It would take an absolute fucking imbecile to not realize what is happening. Everything we have done the last two months destroys us and helps Russia. 

Two months? Did you miss 2015-2021?



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