Jim Saksa

Trump calls on divided GOP to pass SAVE America Act ‘at the expense of everything else’ Trump suggested the SAVE America Act includes a number of provisions that are not in the proposal.

I've written dozens of articles on this bill, here's one: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I don't really trust this (not a ding on the pollsters): A lot of polls of GOP voters show that they dramatically switch where they are before and after a Trump action. E.g. 20-30% who said they opposed Trump ordering an intervention in Venezuela later said they backed it...

So far during this Doral speech to House GOP, Trump asked them to pass:
Rx pricing law; Wall Street landlord ban; no CDL for aliens... now talking about SAVE America Act

Trump to House GOP: "They said this about a lot of things: No other president could do some of this shit I'm doing."

I'm watching this same speech, and he's declaring economic victory. It's all great. Congrats everyone, we did it

Note: McBride is actually an ordained Presbyterian elder in the same denomination as Talarico.

Talarico is in seminary. But unless he is also an elder like McBride (more common than you'd think), she's currently in a higher office than him in local church polity. religionnews.com/2024/11/25/b...

In case you’d forgotten Arizona Republicans hired “Cyber Ninjas” to audit 2020 election result in Maricopa County & Biden picked up 360 more votes when it was done

Senate Majority Leader Thune still doesn't see a successful way to pass the SAVE America Act via forcing Dems to use a talking filibuster

“Having studied it, researched it pretty thoroughly, you have to show me how in the end it prevails and succeeds. Because I think what has been promised...

It really good :)

DOJ aims to speed up voter roll case as deadline for removing voters looms "That ship has already all but sailed,” Michigan’s lawyers wrote.

NEW: Michigan pushed the breaks on the DOJ’s effort to acquire its unredacted voter data, asking the 6th Circuit to deny a quicker review of the case.

The dispute underscores the DOJ's seeming realization that it must act swiftly before it's legally barred from purging voters close to the midterms.

You're doing god's work (totally wrong about 7+6, gotta flip them, and also move them up, but spot on #1, I've got it on a sweatshirt and it rocks)

For those who might not remember: Gonzales resigned as GWB's AG after he fired a bunch of U.S Attorneys for not abiding by the White House's back channel orders to prosecute political enemies. This is the pot calling the kettle a partisan hack

Today it appears to many former DOJ employees and officials that the cathedral of justice is being dismantled stone by stone. Prosecutors appear to no longer enjoy prosecutorial independence. Prosecutions at the federal district level against perceived political or personal enemies of the administration’s leadership are, in many cases, now directed by senior leaders at the Department or by subordinates at the White House. Further, we see the entire legal profession weakened by attacks on law firms. Politically motivated criticism of our judges, as well as threats to their families, threaten to undermine the independence of the courts. Recently, it was reported that leaders in the various 93 US offices were told to provide DOJ headquarters with examples of perceived judicial activism that would serve as the basis for referral to the House of Representatives for possible impeachment proceedings. There are growing complaints about executive branch defiance of court orders. Some prosecutions now appear to be motivated not by justice—but by politics, intimidation, or retribution. Recent prosecutions of perceived political enemies of the current administration—including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and six members of Congress, including Sen. Mark Kelly—have all failed to an embarrassing level. These failures damage morale at DOJ and lessen respect for the agency primarily responsible for protecting the rule of law and our freedoms.

How politicized is Pam Bondi's DOJ? So much so that ALBERTO GONZALES is saying this about it

chkbal.substack.com/p/the-cathed...

IF GOP adds mail-in ballots and trans issues to the bill, they'll lose Republican votes (mail in ballots are popular!). And even IF it then passed the Senate (lol), it would have to go back to the House, where there are now 3 lame duck Texas reps... no way

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump is literally delusional. No version of the SAVE America Act, certainly not the one the House passed, does anything on mail-in ballots, trans athletes or gender affirming care.

Just completely detached from reality.

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

You have my permission to politicize the shit out of my death and throw this callous statement in Trump’s face if some retaliatory Iranian suicide bomber kills me

Surely the man who said “when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything,” would never!

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Someone in the White House press corps please, please ask Trump what is in this bill, the man doesn't seem to have a clue.

The GOP would absolutely repost this a bazillion times and ask why a Democrat let this monster go if he was an undocumented immigration instead of a January 6 rioter

Can someone in the White House press corps please ask Trump what he thinks is in this bill?

If I were a college newspaper reporter, I would definitely go quasi-undercover, join all the campus right wing groups, and get on the group chats right now.

On the same day the US sank an Iranian ship in international waters, we have heard three entirely different answers from the highest Republicans in Washington about whether the US is at "war" with Iran

Azerbaijan says two people injured by Iranian drones Azerbaijan's foreign ministry lodged an official protest with ​the Iranian embassy on Thursday after a pair ‌of Iranian drones flew across the border into Azerbaijan and injured two people at an airpo...

The latest news at this hour:

CONFLICT WIDENS WITH AZERBAIJAN STRIKE: Two Iranian drones flew into Azerbaijan today, injuring two. One fell at an airport just 6 miles from the border with Iran, and the other fell near a school building in a nearby village.

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.

So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The very obvious problem with this implementation of popularism, as a purely political matter, is that you are *constantly* raising the salience of your worst issues!

sixers win

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.