If DOJ had any brains, they'd move to strike for improperly named party.
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If DOJ had any brains, they'd move to strike for improperly named party.
Click through to The Atlantic piece.
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If, as Republicans claim, much of DHS is now shut down b/c Democrats, how is DHS able to spare HSI agents – hard-pressed doing child exploitation, human trafficking, and cybercrime investigations – to send them to Arizona to investigate (BS) allegations of election irregularities from 6 YEARS AGO?
Screenshot of a browser window URL says: www.ice.gov/hsi/investigate Then in the window Homeland Security Investigations Below that, in large letters, "HSI". Below that is an HSI "Special Agent" gold badge. In two columns on each side of that badge, a list: CHILD EXPLOITATION CULTURAL PROPERTY, ART, AND ANTIQUITIES SMUGGLING CYBERCRIME FINANCIAL CRIMES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND WAR CRIMES HUMAN SMUGGLING HUMAN TRAFFICKING IDENTITY AND BENEFIT FRAUD ILLEGAL TECHNOLOGY PROCUREMENT AND SANCTIONS VIOLATIONS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT AND COMMERCIAL FRAUD LABOR EXPLOITATION NARCOTICS SMUGGLING TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS TRANSNATIONAL GANGS WEAPONS TRAFFICKING WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
So HSI (w/in ICE, w/in DHS) is doing an election investigation, while FBI CT and CI agents are doing immigration enforcement, and JAG lawyers are in federal court doing habeas cases.
And for anyone wondering: Per the "What we investigate" page at the ICE website, "Elections" is not on the HSI list.
The President Donald J Trump-Le Petomane War Supplemental
… and the chair states, "without objection" the motion is agreed to.
Then Biden starts his remarks– Whoops. Foreign Relations Cmte Chair Pell (D-RI) asks UC the agreement to the motion be vitiated. "Without objection, it is so ordered." Pell then asks UC to proceed to the very same bill. 😀
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In which we find a cite to this, which may be filed under "Odd Moments in Senate Motions to Proceed History".
Sen Biden (D-DE), a tad inartfully, makes a motion to proceed to a bill, agree to a committee amendment to it, and pass the bill. The chair states the question as a motion to proceed…
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FUN FIND from CRS: Motions to Proceed to Consider Measures in the Senate: Who Offers Them?
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Dems should offer an amendment to the bill's short title to make it the "War Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2026".
ALT: The "Donald J Trump War Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2026"
Don't have the votes to proceed? 🤯🤯🤯
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If past is prolog
Nov 11, 2017,
TRUMP: 'I really believe' Putin 'means it' when he says Russia didn't interfere in the election
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... thus revealing why such UC agreements were often called "time agreements".
Why the chair asked, "Is there objection to consideration of the bill?"? 🤔
Oddly, I was unable to find where the time agreement on HR 15586 was entered into. Mentions, yes. Entered into, no. 🤷🏻♂️
#SRules
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I decided to check the Record for the unanimous consent agreement (UC) mentioned in what @ringwiss.bsky.social posted from June 30, 1972 – just to be sure about what "etc." meant. ✅
> Note there is no limit on amendments that may be offered, just a limit on debate time for any that are offered…
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TIL: Bluesky is pronounced bloo-ski.*
(* – that is, according to Sen John Kennedy (R-LA))
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
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Good times.*
(* – no, I wasn't there back then, but the Senate was still that way when I started working there; AND (tbc) it was still that way when I left!)
You would think that being able to consider nominations en bloc would have freed up that precious, precious floor time for proper consideration of legislation.
Today in... News You Can't Use
"CIA faces furious backlash after hidden document with potential cure for cancer is declassified," claims the Daily Mail.
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To prepare your plumbing for Quantum dishwasher detergent?
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Cc: secretary of defense hegseth
Among the things that's going on is Mamdani is being judged against the WILDLY inappropriate practice of Trump, Bondi, Kash, Noem, et al, publicly weighing in on matters that involve criminal charges.
A political leader SHOULD NOT get ahead of investigations. Trump routinely does.
Anything about calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico? 🤦🏻♂️
What if you draw 2 lines to Europe, one from SV and one from Seattle.
For 💩💩 & 😄 I asked Grok today what post-WWII wars, if any, involving America could be considered world wars, and Grok said, while it's early, only this one against Iran has the attributes of a world war.
Wine History: Carloads of Wine Grapes at Stockton, California — Early 1900s colorized picture postcard depicting grapes arriving at Stockton's El Pinal Winery, a winery founded in 1858.
How did he do it? Volume!
Every money bill should tithe for farmers.
About that, all that would have to happen would be for the US press not to much cover Israel still beating on Iran.
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