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Julie DiCaro
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Independent Journalist. IU alum. Recovering lawyer. She/her

Author - Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being A Woman in America; Losing My Perspicacity (newsletter)

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"The No Secret Police Act and No Vigilantes Act directly regulate the Federal Government by dictating permissible uniforms for federal agents and forcing federal agencies to adopt specified policies."
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"(Newsom's) latest resistance—imposing a mask ban and identification requirement on federal agents operating in California— violates the US Constitution, as even Newsom apparently appreciated when he acknowledged ...that “[i]t appears we don’t have the legal authority for federal agents.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is just interesting.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"President Trump’s expression of surprise at Ms. Ingraham’s knowledge of the planned painting of the EEOB suggests that similar secrecy surrounds his current plan to paint the EEOB."
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Referring to the building’s existing gray granite, (Trump) said, “Gray is for funerals.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"President Trump stated that he planned to paint the EEOB white and showed images depicting the building covered entirely in pale white paint. In responding to the images, President Trump said, “Look at that, how beautiful that is.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"As the facts illustrate, Director Pulte, Mr. Martin, AG Bondi, and Ms. Halligan do not believe themselves bound by the Constitution, federal statutes, or fundamental ethical norms."
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Director Pulte was not willing to let the lack of evidence—or the judgment of career prosecutors— stand in the way of his ambitions to please President Trump. On September 19, 2025, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that "AG James was. “very guilty of something."
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
God, these people are dumb. They can't shut up to the media and it nearly always comes back to bite them in the ass.
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"Just two days later, on August 14, Mr. Martin orchestrated a bizarre media stunt where he and a DOJ colleague traveled to Brooklyn, New York, to visit AG James’s private home there and
stage a photo opportunity in front of it for the New York Post."
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Ed Martin—who according to his letterhead, is U.S. Pardon Attorney/Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud/Associate Deputy Attorney General/Director of the Weaponization Working
Group—has engaged in a well-documented series of actions that cannot be described as anything but outrageous."
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Intent on covering his tracks, instead of allowing the internal investigation to continue, Director Pulte fired about a dozen members of the ethics and investigations units."
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Pulte either (1) relied exclusively on a single fringe blogger’s “evidence” that James committed fraud, (2) took it upon himself to purchase these documents from various county clerk offices, or (3) unlawfully accessed James’s loan files from Fannie Mae’s database."
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Many of the exhibits referenced... were available from a single source:... the blog of a right-wing “investigator,” Sam Antar, who has claimed credit for providing Pulte with the facts necessary for the criminal referral."
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Also on April 18, a Fannie Mae fraud investigator sent emails attaching social media posts by AG James’s great-niece, Nakia Thompson."
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"According to FHFA’s regulations, the chairperson of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac boards must be independent of FHFA. As FHFA Director, Pulte is the furthest thing from independent."
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"In March 2025, William Pulte began his tenure as FHFA Director and quickly transformed the little-known agency into a weapon to be brandished against President Trump’s political
enemies."
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
BREAKING:

We have a new Motion to Dismiss from Letitia James, this time for Outrageous Gov't Conduct and focusing on Bill Pulte's behavior.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Similarly, the alleged practice of agents pressuring detainees to sign legally binding documents, lack of access to medical care, and lack of access to appropriate toilet facilities would injure all detainees, not just long-term detainees."
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Cantú’s testimony will bind the Respondents. Cantú must be adequately prepared to testify on the subject matter...to that end, Respondents and their counsel are further ORDERED to make a good-faith effort to prepare Cantú for his testimony consistent with this Order."
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"The Govt’s new position—made through yet another new DHS witness’s recitation of unspecified hearsay conversations with unnamed members of the Department of State—is but the latest installment in a seemingly endless series of machinations designed to punish Petitioner and deny him due process."
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"We write on behalf of Petitioner Abrego Garcia regarding the Government's newly asserted "factual developments" and to request that the witness through whom the Government has proffered its new evidence be presented for examination of the. November 20, 20205 hearing."
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM