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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
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I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
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Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks as The 2000 Year Old Man

#fornoreason
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
That Trump was wrong to deploy National Guard troops in DC is in no way to blame for two of them being shot here. And while it would have been just as wrong to blame that if the shooter had been a local angered by troops in his city, reporting says he wasn't; he traveled X-country to do this.

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November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
David Letterman. Oprah and Uma.
Olivia Nuzzi. Donald Trump.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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If you think studies w/ mice & rats cld be applicable to humans, then RFKjr's adolescent use of heroin may be a part of the problem. Eg, "Adolescent morphine exposure induced long-term cognitive impairment and prefrontal neurostructural abnormality in adulthood in male mice"

doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Apart from whether or not this is the right response, we now know from his response time today that, while Trump may not really care about our troops, he cares more about the troops than he does about members of Congress.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
HOT TAKE: In a long delayed response to those calling the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party", the other party shall now be referred to as the Republicany Party, and its members Republicanies*.

(* – "reh-PUH-bleh ka-neez";
also:"reh-PUH-bleh ka-NIN-eez")

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www.thedailybeast.com/tepublican-o...
Trump, 79, Has Baffling Plan to Rename the Republican Party After Himself
The president’s new nickname idea is not one of his best.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
@orinkerr.bsky.social And it began...
Nov. 26, 1925: Roy Olmstead, a police officer-turned-bootlegger described as the “king of the Pacific Coast rum trade,” is arrested as he’s helping to load 100 cases of liquor into a fleet of cars outside Seattle. He was tracked by police who had wiretapped his phone.
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
DAILY BEAST: "Trump is reportedly locked in a bizarre standoff with the architect he personally tapped to design a new White House ballroom – b/c the president wants it even bigger than the White House itself."

In the last image his architect released, its footprint looked bigger already.

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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
HEADLINE: Trump says China's Xi 'more or less agreed' [ fill in the blank ]

I'll take the under.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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NEW (and CURIOUS) at SCOTUS: Court defers Trump administration's emergency plea to fire the Register of Copyrights pending upcoming decisions in two related cases that haven't been argued yet
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Curious because this keeps the top U.S. copyright official in her job for at least a couple more months after she was fired earlier this year.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And a package cannot be "delayed in transit" when it has yet to start its transit.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
FUN FIND: On Carter's way out the door in 1981, AAG Phil Heymann rec'd an OLC memo: "We believe that Congress may not 'waive' or abrogate its members' rights under the Speech or Debate Clause. [… T]he clause protects Congress chiefly by protecting the speech and debate of every member."

Link in ALT
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
TIL: I can set my home thermostat to lie.

"Can we get some heat in here?!"
"Put on a sweater."
"But–?"
"What does the thermostat say?"
"70."
"70?! That is warm enough."
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Philadelphia Inquirer. The fame Dunham wins for the Ford gig will later land him a vaudeville contract.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
PSA: Military retirement appears to be exempt from congressional financial disclosure reporting (as is the value of a senator's primary residence).

Re: Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
PSA: Military retirement appears to be exempt from congressional financial disclosure reporting (as is the value of a senator's primary residence).

Re: Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Me, on why and how Marco Rubio is actually the good guy on the Ukraine "piece" deal.

Yikes!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7s...
Marco Rubio in the Room
YouTube video by emptywheel
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
YES. If you're part of a decision-making group & you don't like the direction it's going, and you say it publicly, at the next meeting, you may not be in the room. And w/ Rubio, he's barely been in the room from the get-go.

Rare props to Rubio for how he (non-pejoratively) used those senators.

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Me, on why and how Marco Rubio is actually the good guy on the Ukraine "piece" deal.

Yikes!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7s...
Marco Rubio in the Room
YouTube video by emptywheel
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This take is very, very funny and very, very, very sadly true.
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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So a bunch of people who want enormous financial bribes from Russia bypassed the man who REMAINS both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to capitulate to Russia.

Then he got the backing of key Senators, and with it, tried, once again, to prevent the total capitulation by the US.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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HOT TAKE: One of the House members in the "Don't follow an illegal order" video should blow up this image to poster size, take it to the floor, and use it while giving notice of an impeachment resolution.* 🤷‍♂️

(* – terms and conditions may apply)
Trump didn’t read before posting:

“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM