One more step closer to Trump declaring a national emergency under fake pretenses to subvert the legitimate November election.
Owen Smigelski
Owen Smigelski
@lothar.blue
Dad of 3 boys, server admin since 93. I do ICANN policy, compliance & legal for Namecheap. Adjacent to LAX. Distance runner, geek, reader, Yankees, Stern fan. Big supporter of 🇺🇦 and science. Nothing I post is remotely legal advice.
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Sylvester Stallone has an estimated net worth of $400 million.
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I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs
OSSOFF: You didn't answer earlier. Answer now. Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election? MIKE COLLINS: You know, the 2020 election. Everybody has seen my views on that OSSOFF: What are they? COLLINS: There was a lot of doubt in that election OSSOFF: I didn't hear an answer
Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t get any more incompetent…
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What exactly should Zelenskyy be grateful to Trump for? That Trump has ensured that the war drags on for far longer than it needed to at the expense of Ukrainian property and lives?
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"
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More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
Yay qualified immunity!
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Important: the Trump Administration can't do all their evil themselves. They need people to enable their plans. Those people need to be deterred by fear for their own liability. They won't all get Trump pardons, which are useless for civil damages anyway and possibly useless altogether...
This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.
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This is the take you need re: Hegseth's "live stream an execution" plan.
Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/
Trump doing his best to be a fascist dictator
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This is so fucking barbaric, and a new low for the Trump administration.
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Cops are great www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
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“But Hunter Biden was on a board of directors inappropriately!” I hate the hypocrisy of the right.
Hey fucktard- if you don't want a same sex marriage, don't get one. And by using your religion as a basis to block marriage equality, you are forcing your religion on everyone. You do know religion was used to justify slavery, right?
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Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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It feels crazy to need to write this, but journalists should not be arrested because the president doesn’t like the way they report on the sizes of his crowds. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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I was today years old when I learned that "mechanical penis ride" is a thing (and apparently can cause permanent injuries!)
Good riddance to a scammer and grifter who spent his entire "career" stealing from believers in the name of Christianity.
Meanwhile, climate change is destroying the earth and shattering records.
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(pockets $550 Million Golden Parachute and $197 million in stock sales)
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Verisign announces Verisign Informed, applies for .pki top level domain New security product to provide current certificate status information. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced its… https://domainnamewire.com/2026/10/05/verisign-announces-verisign-informed-applies-for-pki-top-level-domain/
Wow, @cnn.com is really timely with this "analysis". The rest of us have known this for years.
Better late than never. I’ve been doing so since 2015.
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Glad to see the Internet rushed to judgment without knowing the real story behind "mom of the year" clip
Trump’s idiocy and ability to focus on performative bullshit know no bounds
SCOTUS allowing racist, bigoted, and fascist behavior to continue thus they support it.
OK Thune, whaddya gonna do about it other than make statements to reporters?
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That’s what they claim, but it’s really to allow fossil fuel companies to sell more gas while the earth burns due to climate change. Trump, yet again, doing everything possible to destroy everything.
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Orange Order provocateurs won’t be happy until they drag the North back to segregation and worse. Their marches are part of a plan of intimidation & provocation, and they want retaliation. In the past the intimidation was condoned by the govt. Seems like it still is.
Drumcree: Where are we now and what happens next?
Maybe not having Protestants march through a Catholic neighborhood to antagonize them is the proper solution? There's a reason there hasn't been a March there since the Good Friday Accords.
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Pointing out how much you suck and are a grave threat to the US and the world is the truth. But nice try Blanche.
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“Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, said the use of federal funds for the ads could be an ‘abuse of power’ and ‘an impeachable offense.’ He urged Congress to demand a reimbursement for the spending.”
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Brendan Carr is the guy who spent 5 years hyperventilating on cable news about the FAINTEST POSSIBILITY that China had undue influence over TikTok China, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar having a near 50% investment stake in a major U.S. media conglomerate: no problem