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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Good use of taxpayer funds.  No streets in nacadoches need this, where it would be celebrated?  They’d rather it be a fork in the eye of the libs?

Fuckin duh

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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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29 minutes ago, 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.

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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37 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

If Cannon is nominated, at least there won’t be push back to the idea that cunt was bought and paid for by turnip. Totally in the bag. Like we always knew.

I'm pretty sure TwiceHorn will still push back on it.

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2 hours ago, 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. 

 

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

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43 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

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

Of counsel at Tesla, done. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

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.

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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2 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

Confirmed.

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

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
2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

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

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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Posted
19 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

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

 

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

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7 hours ago, 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.

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 the day that police responded to Justice Barrett’s sister home, the U.S. Marshals Service in the Southern District of New York issued a bulletin: Federal judges were being targeted with anonymous Domino’s deliveries. Police say members of Justice Barrett’s immediate family were among those who received pizza deliveries.

“This emerging form of harassment has been seen in several districts throughout the country,” the bulletin read.

Judges nominated by presidents of both parties have been targets, but a pattern is emerging: Many of the threats are aimed at jurists who are hearing lawsuits against the Trump administration.

“We assess that these incidents are related to high-profile cases that have received extensive media coverage and public interest,” the Marshals Service wrote of the pizza deliveries.

After Judge John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued his first order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to abolish birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of noncitizens, he said in an interview that he had been the target of a “swatting” attack, in which a false tip sent sheriff’s deputies to his home expecting to find an armed intruder. That was followed by a mailbox bomb threat sent to the F.B.I. that proved to be a hoax.

After a federal judge in Rhode Island, John J. McConnell Jr., blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to freeze as much as $3 trillion in federal funding to the states, his courthouse received a large volume of phone messages and emails, some of which were referred to the Marshals Service for review, according to Frank Perry, a court spokesman.

Threats against judges and justices are not new. In June 2022, an armed man, Nicholas John Roske, was arrested near the home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, and told the police that he had traveled there from California to kill the justice, according to federal officials. His trial is set for June.

Even so, members of the federal judiciary are raising alarms that the dangers appear to be escalating, both online and in the real world.

Two federal appellate judges, Jeffrey S. Sutton and Richard J. Sullivan, both Republican appointees, raised concerns about the safety of judges earlier this month after a meeting of the Judicial Conference, the national policy-making body for the federal judiciary.

“Criticism is no surprise; it’s part of the job,” said Judge Sutton, who is the chief judge of the Sixth Circuit. “But I do think, when it gets to the level of a threat, it really is about attacking judicial independence.”

In his social media post on Tuesday, Mr. Trump did not just demand that District Judge James Boasberg be impeached; he also called the judge, who issued an order temporarily blocking the administration’s plan to deport Venezuelan immigrants, a “Radical Left Lunatic, a troublemaker and agitator.”

The post prompted Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to rebuke Mr. Trump in a rare public statement. “Impeachment,” he wrote, “is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”

But by then, Mr. Trump’s followers had already followed his lead. Pseudonymous social media accounts called judges who ruled against the president “traitors” and “lawless.” One post called Judge Boasberg a “terrorist-loving judge.” Another suggested that he be sent “to GITMO for 20 years.”

Laura Loomer, a close ally of Mr. Trump, trained the attention of her 1.5 million online followers on Judge Boasberg’s daughter.

“His family is a national security threat,” she wrote.

That post echoed an earlier instance when Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to Mr. Trump and owner of the social media site X, reposted what Ms. Loomer claimed was personal information that she had gleaned from the LinkedIn page of Judge McConnell’s daughter.

Judge James C. Ho, a conservative appellate judge who was named to the bench by Mr. Trump, said he was not convinced that there had been any uptick in threats, and suggested that the alarms being raised now about the threats may be driven by partisanship.

“Judges have faced hateful attacks, and worse, for years,” Judge Ho said, pointing to threats against two conservative federal judges, Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas and Aileen Cannon in Florida. “Defending judicial independence only when you like the results is not protecting the judiciary. It’s politicizing the judiciary.”

Data collected by the Marshals Service, which provides protection for judges, show that the number of investigated threats against federal judges, prosecutors, court officials and members of the public who visit or work in federal courthouses had declined over the last two years, to 822 in 2024 from 1,362 in 2022. The Marshals Service did not respond to a request for threat statistics for the first months of 2025.

In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice Roberts issued an unusually somber and urgent warning of “a significant uptick” in threats. He said Marshals Service data, showed that hostile threats and communications directed at judges had more than tripled over the previous decade.

“The judges that I talk to are worried,” said Gabe Roth of Fix the Court, a nonprofit advocacy group. “More so than they were four, or eight, or 12 years ago.”

Court watchers say that singling out individual judges who rule against the administration poses a unique danger, both for the judges themselves and for a judicial system that relies on their fearless impartiality.

“It doesn’t take a mob storming the courthouse,” said Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge and ethics expert who directs the Berkeley Judicial Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. “It just takes one person who decides to go after a judge.”

If nothing else, threats to impeach judges over their rulings suggest that it is permissible to disregard judicial orders and sidestep the regular appeals process, according to Judge Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“We don’t have the power of the sword, or the purse,” she said of the judicial system. “We depend on respect. And the minute you start undermining that respect? Who knows where that might lead.”

Judge Coughenour, who was threatened during the 1999 trial of the Montana Freemen militia and again during the 2001 trial of an Al Qaeda terrorist, said he had taken the new threats against his life in stride.

“I’ve been at this so long, that stuff kind of rolls off my back,” he said in an interview.

But threats from Congress to impeach him over his rulings? Those are “something I’ve never seen before,” Judge Coughenour said.

A Supreme Court spokeswoman said the court did not comment on security matters. Justice Barrett did not respond to a request for comment. Law enforcement officials in Louisiana confirmed that they had received incident calls for the home addresses of the justice’s parents and another of her sisters, and had referred the matters to federal law enforcement.

 

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10 minutes ago, 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. 

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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“Don hosts one of the biggest political podcasts in the world and was in Serbia strictly in his capacity as a podcast host for an interview,” Andy Surabian, the spokesman, said. “He was in and out of the country in less than eight hours and at no point had any discussions with anyone relating to Trump Org.”

The visit, according to two individuals briefed on the plan, was arranged by Brad Parscale, a former campaign manager for President Trump.

Mr. Parscale, an executive at a conservative podcast and radio broadcasting company, also founded a political campaign consulting firm. He had pitched advising Mr. Vucic during his 2022 re-election campaign, but has asserted he did not get hired.

Mr. Vucic is now facing one of the biggest tests of his nearly eight years as president. Protests against his administration erupted in November after the collapse of a concrete structure atop a railway station walkway that killed 15, an accident that demonstrators blamed in part on government corruption.

The visit by Mr. Trump last week had brought a brief pause in those troubles and immediately became national news in Serbia, with Mr. Vucic and his top advisers pointing to it as a sign that the Trump administration supports Mr. Vucic, despite the growing protests in the streets of the capital.

“A cordial conversation with Donald Trump Jr., the son of U.S. President Donald Trump about bilateral relations between Serbia and the U.S.A. and current topics that shape the global political and economic scene,” Mr. Vucic wrote in a social media posting after the meeting.

Marko Djuric, Serbia’s foreign affairs minister, added in a television interview after Mr. Trump’s visit that the presence of President Trump’s son “provides great momentum for an excellent start to relations with the new administration.”

Others in the country had quite a different view.

“The son of President Trump is here to try to give Vucic a helping hand,” said Dragan Jonic, an opposition-party member of Serbia’s parliament. “It is obviously a conflict of interest, as Vucic is trying to hold on to power and the Trumps want to keep their real estate deal alive.”

Mr. Vucic’s government signed an agreement last May with Affinity Global Development, a company set up by Mr. Kushner. The company plans to invest $500 million to build a 175-room Trump hotel with 1,500 luxury apartments and other amenities at the former defense ministry site in Belgrade.

“We are thrilled to expand our presence into Europe,” Eric Trump, another of President Trump’s sons, said in January, when the inclusion of a Trump International Hotel to the project was first publicly announced. Eric Trump is the lead family member running its real estate company.

But Donald Trump Jr. is also an executive vice president at Trump Organization, which operates the family’s hotels, golf courses and other assets, and is helping with planning for the Serbian hotel project.

Two individuals who had been briefed on Donald Trump Jr.’s travel, but who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly, said Mr. Trump was not paid for taking the trip. But his airfare, and that of his girlfriend, Bettina Anderson, was covered by Mr. Parscale, who has a business partner based in Serbia. Mr. Parscale declined to comment or to disclose the name of his Serbian business partner.

Virginia Canter, a former ethics adviser to the International Monetary Fund, said that Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Serbian president was reminiscent of activity by Hunter Biden, who was accused by Republicans of leveraging the position of his father, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as vice president to make lucrative overseas business deals.

“It is kind of the height of hypocrisy that they were concerned about Hunter Biden’s foreign work,” said Ms. Canter, who also served as an ethics lawyer in the Clinton White House and now works at a nonprofit group called State Democracy Defenders Action, which has been critical of Mr. Trump.

In Ms. Canter’s view, the conflict of interest in Donald Trump Jr.’s case is more explicit.

“Don Jr., as a surrogate for his father, is using the public office of the president of the United States to help the president of Serbia stay in office — while furthering the Trump family’s personal financial interest,” she said. “It is unethical. It’s offensive.”

It remains unclear how much Mr. Trump’s presence in Serbia may have helped Mr. Vucic.

Several days after the visit, the streets of central Belgrade were jammed with more than 100,000 demonstrators for what organizers called one of the largest protests in the nation’s history.

Mr. Vucic’s government offered the Trump family a deal last year, as President Trump was running for re-election, to gain access to the prime real-estate development site in the middle of Belgrade.

The government is leasing the site to Mr. Kushner’s real-estate partnership for 99 years, according to Serbian officials. Affinity Global Development, the Kushner affiliate, in return has agreed to build the hotel and luxury apartments in a partnership with Mohamed Alabbar, a business executive from the United Arab Emirates.

Donald J. Trump, before he was first elected president and while he was still running the family real-estate business, had first considered building a hotel at this exact site in 2013 and associates of the Trump Organization traveled to Belgrade to inspect the location. The project did not come together before Mr. Trump’s election in 2016, but Mr. Kushner revived it last year while Mr. Trump was running again for office.

The hotel project had generated smaller scale protests in Belgrade even before the fatal rail station canopy collapse late last year.

Opposition leaders like Mr. Jonic argued that the former Ministry of Defense site was symbolic because it was attacked by NATO forces led by the United States in 1999 when Serbia and its neighbor Montenegro were part of Yugoslavia. It should not be turned over to American real-estate developers seeking a profit, the opposition leaders said.

“Can you imagine an American president, any president, giving West Point as a gift to an offshore company, only to demolish it and build a hotel?” Aleksandar Jovanovic, a member of Serbia’s parliament, said last year as the deal was being negotiated, referencing the U.S. Military Academy.

“One would have to have a vivid imagination to imagine that. Unfortunately, what is unthinkable in America is a tragic reality in Serbia,” he said at that time.

Donald Trump Jr., in addition to being shown the layout of downtown Belgrade by Serbia’s president, conducted a nearly hourlong interview with Mr. Vucic that was broadcast in recent days on Mr. Trump’s podcast, “Triggered.”

During the conversation, Mr. Trump compared the protests in response to the November rail station collapse to criticism of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his father’s supporters on the Capitol in Washington.

“It was later weaponized,” Mr. Trump said during the interview, before continuing with theories raised by Trump allies related to events in Washington “like our, you know, Jan. 6 turned into something that it wasn’t, to incite potentially even a revolution.”

Mr. Trump and Mr. Vucic also talked about Russia and the war in Ukraine and Mr. Vucic’s work with President Trump during his first term.

They both asserted separately that funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the Trump administration has slashed over the last two months, had been improperly used by some nonprofit groups in Serbia to play a role in the protests, although neither offered proof of this allegation.

The Trump family’s evident support of Mr. Vucic is much appreciated, the Serbian president made clear, adding that he believes it is part of the reason President Trump is so popular in Serbia.

“This was the country where Trump was enjoying the biggest popularity in the entire Europe by far,” Mr. Vucic said. “I’m not flattering him or I’m not flattering you. I’m saying what people here think.”

 

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3 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

Confirmed.

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

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. 

iswis 🖕

Posted
47 minutes ago, bolverk said:

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

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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