Stacy Fitz
@fitstace.bsky.social
Arizonan focused on democracy. Music, traveling, cooking and hiking for balance.
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#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case.
But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:
But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:
153. Living by the Ipse Dixit
A constitutional principle like the "unitary executive theory" isn't worth all that much if the Supreme Court can conjure new, unprincipled exceptions to it by simply asserting that they exist.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:24 PM
#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case.
But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:
But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:
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“.. Carney .. gave a magnificently powerful speech before the gathered elites that will be discussed many years from now. Decades, likely.”
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-ann...
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-ann...
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 AM
“.. Carney .. gave a magnificently powerful speech before the gathered elites that will be discussed many years from now. Decades, likely.”
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-ann...
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-ann...
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Not a projection. 450 Torches. Carried up the mountain and place correctly by 10 residents.
January 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Not a projection. 450 Torches. Carried up the mountain and place correctly by 10 residents.
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Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
January 20, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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So here is an updated list of US Treasury holdings by foreign assets.
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
So here is an updated list of US Treasury holdings by foreign assets.
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Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries By Investing.com
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries
www.investing.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
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Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.
January 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.
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Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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At any point in the last 30 years the GOP could have backed Immigration Reform, funding for immigration courts to reduce backlogs and any number of policies to control immigration and they didn't to provide a wedge issue to gain power for this end game we are in now, fascism under one Party control.
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
At any point in the last 30 years the GOP could have backed Immigration Reform, funding for immigration courts to reduce backlogs and any number of policies to control immigration and they didn't to provide a wedge issue to gain power for this end game we are in now, fascism under one Party control.
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Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃
January 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃
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Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless
Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.
www.city-journal.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
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NPR just referred to the Trump regime’s “willingness to push the boundaries of the law.”
Trump keeps breaking laws, and the media keep saying he’s *almost* breaking laws.
Trump keeps breaking laws, and the media keep saying he’s *almost* breaking laws.
January 16, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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ICE appears to have strangled a detainee to death.
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
wapo.st
January 16, 2026 at 6:09 AM
ICE appears to have strangled a detainee to death.
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
An employee with El Paso County’s Medical Examiner says the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center is likely to be ruled a homicide. A fellow detainee reports witnessing guards choke Campos to death.
wapo.st/49FW4NG
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Kenneth P. Vogel: Trump pardoned several people this week, including:
▶️A banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC
▶️A woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was convicted in an unrelated case in 2024
▶️A banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC
▶️A woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was convicted in an unrelated case in 2024
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Kenneth P. Vogel: Trump pardoned several people this week, including:
▶️A banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC
▶️A woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was convicted in an unrelated case in 2024
▶️A banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC
▶️A woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was convicted in an unrelated case in 2024
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Good scoop by @liamjscott.bsky.social:
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Good scoop by @liamjscott.bsky.social:
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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BREAKING | The Pentagon has suggested it would take over editorial content decision making for Stars and Stripes in a statement from the Defense Department’s top spokesman.
Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
www.stripes.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 PM
BREAKING | The Pentagon has suggested it would take over editorial content decision making for Stars and Stripes in a statement from the Defense Department’s top spokesman.
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Tariffs are taxes.
Trump is the tax king.
Without representation.
Trump is the tax king.
Without representation.
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Tariffs are taxes.
Trump is the tax king.
Without representation.
Trump is the tax king.
Without representation.
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New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ — Guardian US
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
apple.news
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
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To the notion of compliance: too many people saying ‘if she only complied’ as justification. Failure to comply doesn’t interfere with police work. Failure to comply IS police work. Otherwise just put signs up. It’s people not complying that we must handle smartly. With thought
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
To the notion of compliance: too many people saying ‘if she only complied’ as justification. Failure to comply doesn’t interfere with police work. Failure to comply IS police work. Otherwise just put signs up. It’s people not complying that we must handle smartly. With thought