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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 7d

It is indeed almost like that.

Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 7d

And “spied”? They didn’t wiretap him or listen to calls. In 2023 they subpoenaed lists of his calls for Jan. 4-7, 2021. A narrow request, as it should be. Again, it would be shocking if they hadn’t fully documented the evidence of those calls.

The Senator doth protest too much, methinks.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 7d

How can Sen. Hagerty act so shocked? The January Report disclosed retrieving toll records for calls from WH to a handful of senators on night of J6. And it was public that he was in that handful. It’d be crazy for a prosecutor not to have those records when the calls were a big part of indictment.

Footnote from Jan 2025 special counsel report detailing toll records of calls.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 8d

-282 former DOJ officials sound alarm on compromised integrity & abuse of power.
-6 former Surgeons General warn RFK endangering nation’s health.
-Amid government shutdown, White House threatens to withhold back pay.
-Two US cities challenging illegal troop deployments.

That’s just today.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

wild @MarshaBlackburn & Hagerty are making a big deal of this. calls from WH/Giuliani to Senators after 1/6 to halt certification is described in the Trump indictment

By all means let’s see every doc/grand jury testimony mentioning them to confirm if phone records were relevant!

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re in Nashville and don’t know if you live in CD7, you can check out here: tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/

Voter Registration Lookup

tnmap.tn.gov

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s Election Day to pick the nominees for the special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which includes lots of Nashville. If you’re not sure, there’s a handy tool posted below.

Polls open now and until 7pm. Go vote.

Davidson County Election Commission @davidsonvotes.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Election Day for voters who live in U.S. House District 7! Go to your assigned poll place from 7am – 7pm and vote for the candidate of your choice. This is a primary, so you must choose a Republican or Democratic ballot. View the sample ballot here: bit.ly/4mWC5j1

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 9d

We’re missing basic civics here. It’s Congress—not the President—that has the constitutional power to call out the Guard. Congress’s laws let presidents deploy under narrow, specific circumstances. For nearly 250 years, courts have enforced those limits to prevent abuse of power.

Walsh tweet calling for open defiance of judges and deployment of Guard.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s the @Tennessean latest on the push to expand it more.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/06/gov-lee-more-private-school-vouchers-2026/86503440007/

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 9d

The voucher program takes sales tax money paid by everyone all over the state and redistributes it to wealthier families who were already in private schools in a handful of suburbs & cities.

Map showing voucher enrollment concentrated in Shelby, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and to lesser extent Madison & suburbs outside Nashville.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 9d

“Evenly divided” here means half of the private school vouchers go to families making less than the ~$170,000 limit, which is 95% of Tennessee families and half go to families making even more, which is the wealthiest 5% of Tennesseans.

Gov Lee statement, including point that half go to families meeting income limits and half to families not within limit

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9d

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 9d

Good God, this is dangerous. And just an outright rejection of basic principles of constitutional government in the United States.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10d

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military

In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally ch...

www.yahoo.com

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 11d

Got so tired of complaining about voter fraud without proof that he just went out and did voter fraud. Now that’s commitment to a cause.

Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12d

MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issue—yet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 11d

George Washington won the Revolution, presided at Constitutional Convention, and was our first President. When Senate proposed his face for US coins, he rejected it as anti-republican and signed a law barring any actual person’s image on coins, which held until Lincoln was put on the penny in 1909.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 12d

H/t @parkerbutler.bsky.social for original post. Also worth reading this thread: bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 12d

During 2024 campaign, Trump lied and disowned Project 2025. CNN and others in media actually fact-checked Democrats for deceiving & misleading voters by linking it to Trump.

But it’s been the operational blueprint for his presidency from the jump.

2025 tweet from Trump re Russ Vought of Project 2025 fame

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 12d

Using drones, helicopters & flashbang grenades to storm an entire residential apartment building in the middle of the night and then hauling off zip tied children in rented vans.

The country’s entering a moral black hole here.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 13d

Having a Dr. Evil style meeting on how your detailed plans are finally falling into place seems a questionable strategy.

Jake Sherman post about vought meeting with House GOP on layoffs & cuts

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Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 13d

Historically bad decision for Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in hell this is.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

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Axios @axios.com · 14d

In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint and proclaimed the U.S. armed forces as his weapon of choice against domestic "enemies."

Trump's MAGA-fied military prepares for "war from within"

In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint.

www.axios.com

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