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On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
We’re gonna need a link for that.
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Over at Substack, Thom Hartmann points out that ordering the DoJ to investigate truth tellers is at the very least unconstitutional. Not that it seems to matter much anymore.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-this-the-moment-american-democracy-345?r=v677&utm_medium=ios
On “What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade War”
What do you expect will change as a result?
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
Right, because the President isn’t currently doing that now?
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Which SCOTUS now appears to have paused. Along with a whole bunch of other things.
On “Group Activity: Manic Monday Market Watchalong”
That I don’t know
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The Japanese have reportedly dumped $5 trillion in US treasuries. So there’s that.
On “Tariffs Making China Great Again”
Well from inside the machine that’s how we’ve always done it, yet that only seems to be a problem when democrats are in charge. Go figure.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
Well you do have to admit that being openly racist and misogynistic seems to be a thing for these folks.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25”
And they sacked the government lawyer arguing at the district court level for admitting he wasn’t getting information from DHS he needed to answer the judge.
On “Tariffs Making China Great Again”
Given that the “Major Questions Doctrine” was made up horse hooey to keep Biden (and Obama retroactively) from being successful, I would doubt such things would do much good, much less be allowed by the Courts. A other to remedy this exists but House Speaker Johnson cares. It to take up his powers and use them.
On “About Last Night: Voting Fun in Wisconsin and Florida”
They keep running black men for senate in Mississippi.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25”
Elon likely does. $277M buys a lot.
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Old school 1970’s Argentinian president but yes.
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It’s being widely reported that Facebook is taking down recent posts by historian Heather Cox Richardson. The post detail significant alleged wrong doing by the current regime and were removed with no warning or apparent recourse available to the author.
While corporations are, indeed free to do as they please with their content, suppressing speech like this puts Zuckerberg on par with Musk as slayers of truth.
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Worth noting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court went to the Democrat by 57%.
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He alone among his colleagues has finally grown some back bone. I can’t wait for the speech to be published.
On “Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For”
And yet Trump seems to be speaking for you quite regularly.
On “Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)”
Is now a good time to say we warned you?
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25”
Better then nothing at this point.
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Idiots.
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The new administration is certainly succeeding at one thing.
https://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/maga-goal-lets-traumatize-federal-workers/
On “Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For”
I’m still waiting on our resident free speech absolutists to weigh in on this one. Popcorn is all done …
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Because the administration has listened to all the other things courts have told them to undo?
On “Signal Controversy Over Houthi Strikes Deepens”
As it should, though only on the civil side so far.