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  On 3/19/2025 at 2:56 PM, bluto said:
The rumor mill is running that Alito and Thomas will step down so Trump can reload. At the top of the list…. No not Frank Stallone… Aileen cannon. 

Let it fucking burn.
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  On 3/19/2025 at 4:09 PM, crash_davis said:

Trump Highway going right through Austin

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/could-i-35-in-austin-be-named-after-president-trump/

You’ve heard of Trump Tower, but what about the President Donald J. Trump Highway?

That’s the proposed designated name for Interstate 35 in Travis County, according to a new bill filed Friday by Texas Rep. Joanne Shofner (R-Nacogdoches). The bill outlines the design and construction of markets “indicating the designation as the President Donald J. Trump Highway” alongside any other existing designations.

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Kinda fitting that one of the worst stretches of road on the planet might end up bearing the Trump name. I mean, if they want to go there ...

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Posted
  On 3/19/2025 at 2:56 PM, bluto said:

The rumor mill is running that Alito and Thomas will step down so Trump can reload. At the top of the list…. No not Frank Stallone… Aileen cannon. 

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thomas will want at least $20 mil cash to step down + some kind of position paying $1mil a year 

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  On 3/19/2025 at 6:17 PM, TexasHooch said:

Confirmed.

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Interestingly, if you substitute "District Court/Federal judge" with "Billionaire Oligarch", I pretty much agree with him.

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I'm old enough to remember when Matt Kacsmaryk made himself secretary of homeland security and secretary of health and human services 

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what a fucking snowflake ....

@lemondefr reports that a French research traveling to the United States for a conference was denied entry by CBP because a border agent searched his phone and found comments criticizing President Trump.

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

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Posted
  On 3/19/2025 at 7:13 PM, Hank_Hill said:

I mean, molotoving car dealerships should be charged as such even if it’s terrorism I support.

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It's vandalism and there are already laws that handle that within each state. In Texas depending upon the damage, it can be a first degree felony with lengthy prison time and a fine.

The GOP frequently uses the 'already laws on the books' excuse, then so can everyone else.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 2:08 AM, Hookah Horns said:

Yep, all MAGAts parrot the same stupid, unfunny, bigoted and ignorant shit they get handed down from their idiot influencers. 

 

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That is hilarious and creative. Like Hitchcock's Birds is what I imagine, having never seen that movie.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 2:35 PM, TexasHooch said:

This motion is bananas.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.37.0_2.pdf

 

How it starts:

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How it concludes:

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There's no way this was written by an attorney, right?  This is a political memo, not a legal document.  Stephen Miller authored this- at the very least directed it.  You can't convince me otherwise.

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Surprised there hasnt been more discussion about this unbelievable garbage. Agree that this came from Miller, but whoever signed their name to it should be kicked out of federal court at a minimum. 

Idk how the judge was so restrained in his order. I hope it's not indicative of anything. 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/trump-judges-threats.html

President Trump’s angry call on Tuesday for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his administration on deportation flights has set off a string of near-instant social media taunts and threats, including images of judges being marched off in handcuffs.

The call came against an ominous backdrop. Nine days earlier, police officers in Charleston, S.C., had been dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters because of a threat that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox. “The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened,” the emailed threat read.

The pipe bomb proved to be a hoax, but the threats and intimidation faced by judges and their families in recent weeks are real, judges say. At a moment when the judiciary is weighing pivotal decisions on the legality of Trump administration policies, the potential for violence against judges seems to be rising.

“I feel like people are playing Russian roulette with our lives,” said Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, whose 20-year-old son was shot and killed at her home in 2020 by a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer.

“This is not hyperbole,” she added. “I am begging our leaders to realize that there are lives at stake.”

The threats and intimidation may have not become actual violence, but they appear to be mounting, as Mr. Trump, his advisers and his supporters are questioning almost daily the legitimacy of the American legal system. There is no evidence that jurists’ judgment in the high-profile cases before them has been warped by their antagonists. But at the least, public perceptions of judicial decisions could be shaped by the volume of attacks on the courts.

The attempts at intimidation have taken many forms: bomb threats, anonymous calls to dispatch police SWAT teams to home addresses, even the delivery of pizzas, a seemingly innocuous prank but one that carries a message.

“They know where you and your family members live,” said one judge who is overseeing litigation against the Trump administration and has received a pizza delivery. The judge requested anonymity, citing concerns for their own security and that of their family.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 9:43 PM, Hookah Horns said:

Surprised there hasnt been more discussion about this unbelievable garbage. Agree that this came from Miller, but whoever signed their name to it should be kicked out of federal court at a minimum. 

Idk how the judge was so restrained in his order. I hope it's not indicative of anything. 

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A theory:

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Corruption.

Donald Trump Jr. Mixes Business and Politics in Serbia, as Protests There Rage
President Trump’s oldest son visited Belgrade, the site of a Trump International Hotel project, and pushed back on calls for the country’s president to resign.

The protests against President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia had been growing in intensity and size when an unusual guest showed up in its capital this month to meet with the embattled European leader: Donald Trump Jr., the oldest son of President Trump.

The quick visit by Mr. Trump, which included a meeting with Mr. Vucic to talk about U.S. foreign aid to Serbia, came as the Trump family and Jared Kushner, the American president’s son-in-law, were moving ahead with plans to build a Trump International Hotel in Belgrade, the first such property in Europe.

The hotel is slated to be built atop the site of the former Yugoslavian Ministry of Defense headquarters, which was bombed by NATO 26 years ago on land now owned by the Serbian government. Opposition leaders in Serbia have criticized the agreement and called for it to be terminated, raising the prospect that the deal could be scuttled in a change of power.

Mr. Trump used the visit as an opportunity to express his support for Mr. Vucic — a trip that offered perhaps the most explicit mixing so far in President Trump’s second term of U.S. foreign policy and the Trump family’s financial interests.

On Wednesday, the Serbian prime minister resigned, effectively bringing down the ruling party and forcing Mr. Vucic to form a new government or hold new parliamentary elections later this year, creating more uncertainty there.

A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. dismissed any suggestion that his visit created a conflict of interest. The spokesman said the trip had been driven by a plan to interview Mr. Vucic for Mr. Trump’s podcast, not to step into foreign relations issues or the real-estate deal.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 6:17 PM, TexasHooch said:

Confirmed.

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Interestingly, if you substitute "District Court/Federal judge" with "Billionaire Oligarch", I pretty much agree with him.

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wrong you demented nazi fuck, each day the nation arises to see what insane, stupid, cruel, regressively horrifying policies the ELECTED troll in chief is enacting. 

and every day is a little bit worse. i hope you in particular die a horrible painful death motherfucker, hopefully something that has you shitting your guts out for a month. 

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  On 3/19/2025 at 9:51 PM, bolverk said:

“This is not hyperbole,” she added. “I am begging our leaders to realize that there are lives at stake.”

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Oh.....they realize it.  That's why they are doing it.

Again, the sooner the rest of us realize that they are waging a hot civil war against anyone not MAGA, the sooner we can start working to set shit straight.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 1:43 AM, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

 

So, just saw the below on NBC news.  Is this normal?  Seems like something Putin would want but not in America’s best interest.  Go figure. 

 

Trump admin considers giving up NATO command that has been exclusively American since Eisenhower

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Extremely sharp response to this from the GOP committee chairs.  Rightfully, but will they have the backbone in the end? 
 

I know it’s not sexy and arcane but the key things to make noise about and call Congress and get active are the  (decisions made to reshape the bureaucracy.  COCOM structures and military titles seem deathly dull but this is how a dictatorship locks in its choices by default.  Stalin once said “the cadres decide everything!”

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  On 3/19/2025 at 10:45 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Extremely sharp response to this from the GOP committee chairs.  Rightfully, but will they have the backbone in the end? 
 

I know it’s not sexy and arcane but the key things to make noise about and call Congress and get active are the  (decisions made to reshape the bureaucracy.  COCOM structures and military titles seem deathly dull but this is how a dictatorship locks in its choices by default.  Stalin once said “the cadres decide everything!”

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Blah blah blah.  They'll cave.  There is no government.  There is no party.  There is only Trump/Elon.  They will all get in line.  And everyone knows it.

You have a better chance of finding a live triceratops than a single vertebrae in the entire Republican party.

Of course, if they wanted to obtain a vertebrae.....their Dem counterparts would be no help either.

There ain't a spine to be found, as far as the eye can see.  We live in the Age of Cowards, which is shitty in that it overlaps with the Age of Cruel Assholes.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 10:39 PM, Brisketexan said:

Oh.....they realize it.  That's why they are doing it.

Again, the sooner the rest of us realize that they are waging a hot civil war against anyone not MAGA, the sooner we can start working to set shit straight.

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I remember briefly naively assuming we would collectively process after 9/11, punish the guilty, and change our ways to the extent we contributed to that horrific outcome. Instead we beat our chests and used it as a false pretext for invading Iraq.

Then came Jan 6, 2021. Surely trying to overthrow elections will be like smelling salts that awake us from being hateful, divided, ignorant zombies. Nope.

I can’t imagine what events could awaken enough Americans to begin setting shit straight. Part of me anxiously awaits that day. The other part knows it will be a bloody epiphany and fears what is to come.

Good times.

 

 

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Surprised that Ben & Jerry’s becomes the latest brand that I won’t touch.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ben-jerrys-says-parent-unilever-decided-oust-ice-cream-makers-ceo-2025-03-18/

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Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever in November to stop alleged efforts to dismantle its board and end its progressive social activism, which has included protesting the war in Gaza, supporting a movement to defund police, and attempting to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump.



TLDR: Some hippie’s from Vermont making some ice cream sold out and then get silenced by the man.
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One fun thing about the court shit.  The libs are using a tactic devised by fascists -- the nationwide injunction -- against them.  Most of the earliest ones were granted by Texas federal judges against the Obama administration.

Well, how ya like them apples?

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  On 3/19/2025 at 9:43 PM, Hookah Horns said:

Surprised there hasnt been more discussion about this unbelievable garbage. Agree that this came from Miller, but whoever signed their name to it should be kicked out of federal court at a minimum. 

Idk how the judge was so restrained in his order. I hope it's not indicative of anything. 

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we are days from trump nuking the judicial 

so much fraud and bias 

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  On 3/19/2025 at 9:21 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

It's vandalism and there are already laws that handle that within each state. In Texas depending upon the damage, it can be a first degree felony with lengthy prison time and a fine.

The GOP frequently uses the 'already laws on the books' excuse, then so can everyone else.

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trump is going to bail out musk + us govt will make a massive purchase 

the tesla slide isn't stopping

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  On 3/20/2025 at 12:36 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

trump is going to bail out musk + us govt will make a massive purchase 

the tesla slide isn't stopping

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Yep. Think about it. We all get a Tesla with a laid off government worker who has to be in it (since FSD does not work)  and bam. Fuck you Amtrak.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 11:49 PM, TwiceHorn said:

One fun thing about the court shit.  The libs are using a tactic devised by fascists -- the nationwide injunction -- against them.  Most of the earliest ones were granted by Texas federal judges against the Obama administration.

Well, how ya like them apples?

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Future justice Aileen Cannon will fix any judicial problems that trump is facing, duhhhhhh

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  On 3/20/2025 at 12:38 AM, InkaUtexas said:

Yep. Think about it. We all get a Tesla with a laid off government worker who has to be in it (since FSD does not work)  and bam. Fuck you Amtrak.

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Nah, that $30K severance will be paid out in Tesla's or Tesla shares.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-education-department.html?smid=url-share

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President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials.

The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But the Trump administration has already taken steps to narrow the agency’s authority and significantly cut its work force while telegraphing plans to try to shutter it.

The White House officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plans, said the order instructed Ms. McMahon to return authority over education to the states.

USA Today was first to report Mr. Trump’s intent to sign the order on Thursday.

Republican attempts to shutter the agency date back to the 1980s. But the push gained steam in recent years after a parents’ rights movement grew out of a backlash to school policies and shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

That movement, which includes key pro-Trump, grass-roots activists, expanded around opposition to progressive agendas that promoted mandating certain education standards and inclusive policies for L.G.B.T.Q. students. Activists contended that these policies undermined parental rights and values.

But the hyper-partisanship around education issues has been present for decades, from progressive-leaning teachers’ unions who organized against President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policies to conservative Republican presidential candidates in 2016 who ran against the Common Core standards elevated by President Barack Obama’s “Race to the Top” program.

Caught in the middle are the nation’s 50 million public school pupils, 15 percent of whom have disabilities. Also watching the debate are undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants because they qualify as low-income (nearly one-third of all college students) and those who receive federal student loans (about 28 percent).

Public schools are mostly funded by taxes collected by states and municipalities that, by definition, already have control over that money. The federal government accounts for about 10 percent of total school funding, but that is distributed by the Education Department largely according to federal law — not the discretion of the president.

That balance of power in Washington explains, at least in part, why no modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department. The Education Department was created by an act of Congress in 1979, and federal lawmakers would have to approve of eliminating it.

Shuttering the Education Department is broadly unpopular, public opinion surveys show. Multiple polls in the past month have shown that roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose the idea.

Mr. Trump’s order is expected to spark another legal fight for the administration, which is already embroiled in multiple lawsuits.

No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department. Other agencies, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board, were phased out under Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, but with the support of Congress through legislation.

Additionally, no cabinet-level department has been abolished outright since the U.S. Postal Service replaced the Post Office Department more than half a century ago, and many of the programs the Education Department administers provide a lifeline to schools and students that most lawmakers have been hesitant to jeopardize in the past.

Still, Republican lawmakers have already shown unusual deference to Mr. Trump, even as he has taken steps to challenge Congress’s authority in several areas while flexing his own. Notably, he directed agencies not to spend funds already authorized by Congress on programs he dislikes, a move that is banned under current law and may be unconstitutional.

Closing the department would not by itself revoke the various laws that established federal funding for public schools and underserved school districts or for specific student populations, including those with disabilities. Furthermore, many education policies are controlled by other agencies, and the department does not oversee schools on military bases or in Native American territories.

The Education Department has already reoriented itself to pick up many of Mr. Trump’s goals by winding down investigations started under the previous administration; starting new ones reflecting its own priorities; rolling back protections for transgender students; and cracking down on diversity programs.

 

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  On 3/19/2025 at 9:09 PM, tx 3 putt said:

what a fucking snowflake ....

@lemondefr reports that a French research traveling to the United States for a conference was denied entry by CBP because a border agent searched his phone and found comments criticizing President Trump.

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

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