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Here is my big list of Dad jokes.

#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
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ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
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Secretary Cosplay is spending $200 million in taxpayer dollars for two luxury jets. Not one, but TWO!

Working families who are seeing their healthcare premiums and grocery bills rise are footing the bill for Noem's new props.
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A European diplomat briefed on the meeting between Trump and Zelensky described it as a mess and said Trump also “went on and on” about “his grievances of not having gotten the Nobel Peace Prize.”
-Washington Post
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Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021
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The Rose Garden is paved over.
The East Wing is under demolition.
And behind the scaffolding, billion-dollar corporations are writing checks to rebuild the White House in their own image.

This isn’t restoration — it’s a quiet takeover. Long thread 🧵 ⬇️

The Quiet Expansion
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Nice of Mike Johnson to take time off from checking his porn app to tell us all this
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so much about this case is judges in extreme distress
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What if everyone just decided to wear masks and jackets that say “ICE” on it? Maybe prompting the actual agents to properly identify themselves but also maybe because it would be funny.
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Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Is 1.5 miles in 14 minutes "running"?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 8h
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland
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In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.
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But if the courts and Congress fail to correct this judicial error, the Ninth Circuit will have paved the way for Trump to deploy the military against the people of this country at will. And our liberties cannot long survive in a country where the president has such a power. 23/23
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Oregon has asked for a rehearing en banc. If granted, 11 Ninth Circuit judges will rehear the case. In her dissent, Judge Graber urged her colleagues “to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur.” 21/22
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As a practical matter, if the president can federalize and deploy troops in a city based on small, overwhelmingly non-violent protests, it is hard to imagine any situation in which a president would *not* be empowered to deploy the military against Americans in U.S. cities. 18/23
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As a legal matter, there is no good faith interpretation of the relevant law and facts under which Trump was “unable to execute the law” in Portland without federalizing the National Guard. The Ninth Circuit panel majority might as well have removed the requirement from the law. 17/23
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It is hard to overstate how misguided and dangerous this ruling is. Even where protests involve acts of violence, deploying the military is illegal unless that violence reaches a level where state and local law enforcement are completely overwhelmed. 16/23
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By this logic, Trump should be able to deploy the military today—in Portland and many other cities—to address conduct that occurred during the 2020 protests over the police killing of George Floyd. That’s clearly not the right reading of the law. 9/23
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Yes, AIPAC. I do support human rights. Thanks for noticing!