Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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General John Kelly: "He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law."

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law,

 

Heather Cox Richardson:

MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law, but before Trump and Vance took office, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called out Vance’s hints that he would be willing to defy the rulings of federal courts as “dangerous suggestions” that “must be soundly rejected.”

Today the American Bar Association took a stand against the Trump administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself” as it attacks the Constitution and tries to dismantle departments and agencies created by Congress “without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law.”

“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law,” president of the organization William R. Bay said in a statement. “That means holding governments, including our own, accountable.” He cheered on the courts that “are treating these cases with the urgency they require.”

“[R]efusing to spend money appropriated by Congress under the euphemism of a pause is a violation of the rule of law and suggests that the executive branch can overrule the other two co-equal branches of government,” Bay wrote. “This is contrary to the constitutional framework and not the way our democracy works. The money appropriated by Congress must be spent in accordance with what Congress has said. It cannot be changed or paused because a newly elected administration desires it. Our elected representatives know this. The lawyers of this country know this. It must stop.”





From Talking Points Memo:


Trump's DoJ appears to be disorganized and incompetent:




Overnight, the Justice Department had to file two separate corrections in pending court cases to clean up misstatements of fact they made to federal judges in open court. It’s an excruciating thing for any lawyer to have to do, but especially for the Justice Department which has prided itself on being a reliable narrator and has earned, for better or worse, the benefit of the doubt in federal court.
The impact and significance of the admitted errors isn’t entirely clear yet, but they undermine the Justice Department’s credibility and make it clear to the judges involved that these are not careful, considered, prudent government actions that deserve to be treated as regular or normal.
In the Treasury-DOGE case, the Justice Department now says it was mistaken when it told the court that since-resigned DOGE associate Marko Elez was a special government employee. He was in fact a Treasury Department employee.
In the USAID case, the Justice Department admitted it was wildly wrong when it told the court that 500 employees were placed on leave. The actual number was 2,140. It also mistakenly told the court that only future USAID contracts had been frozen when in fact existing contracts had been frozen as well.
The pace of the destruction unleashed by the White House combined with its disorganization, its ham-handedness, and the lack of involvement from lawyers at the front end has created an enormous mess for the Justice Department to try to clean up in real time in court. It’s not been pretty.
Trump being sloppy and non-strategic is neither new nor a surprise, but it might provide an opening to fend off some of his worst actions in his first three weeks in office.

Monday, February 10, 2025

AND THERE IT IS






Trump says no judge “should be allowed” to rule against his administration . 



Trump is telling us he is above the Constitution and that no law applies to him.

Trump said he'd be dictator, but only for one day. But, we know Trump is a lying liar. He meant for his entire presidency.

Trump has no intention of obeying the courts.

When you put a convicted felon -- a law breaker -- into office, expect him to break the law.




This is what authoritarianism looks like. It’s taken 249yrs to come to America. It’s up to the American people to resist it. To defeat it. I hope we do.
 



 Just In the last few hours, Trump has: 

 -Signed an executive order directing the DOJ to halt enforcement of anti-bribery laws for foreign officials. 

 -Pardoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, convicted on corruption charges. 

 -His DOJ ordered NY prosecutors to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. 

 Donald Trump IS the swamp.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

 

NEW: Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old employee of Elon Musk’s DOGE, known online as “Big Balls,” has been appointed senior adviser at the State Department, The Washington Post reports. Some U.S. officials expressed alarm about Coristine’s new perch at the bureau, which serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus.
All of the department’s IT and data management functions were centralized at the bureau during an overhaul before President Donald Trump returned to office, making it a treasure trove of information.
“This is dangerous,” said one of the U.S. officials, noting Coristine’s age and a report by Bloomberg that he was fired for leaking a data security firm’s information to a competitor.







 WIRED investigative reporters have confirmed that Elon Musk's 19-year-old staffer is deeply involved in an online community of cybercriminals who steal state and corporate secrets and trade them on the dark net to terrorists and foreign operatives. This is who Elon gave your Social Security information to and now just handed the keys to the State Department: a cybercriminal teenage punk who sells classified material to our enemies. It's time for a national rebellion.

THE TRUMP/MUSK REGIME IS BANNING WORDS

 


Judd Legum:


A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. 

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff: 

 Anti-Racism 
Racism 
Allyship 
Bias 
DEI 
Diversity 
Diverse 
Confirmation Bias 
Equity 
Equitableness 
Feminism 
Gender 
Gender Identity 
Inclusion 
Inclusive 
All-Inclusive 
Inclusivity 
Injustice 
Intersectionality 
Prejudice 
Privilege 
Racial Identity 
Sexuality 
Stereotypes 
Pronouns 
Transgender 
Equality 
ALT 

 1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. 

 2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. 

 3. The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with DEI. 

 4. The purge extends beyond public-facing websites to pages on the NSA's internal network, including project management software like Jira and Confluence. The NSA is trying to identify mission-related sites before the "Big Delete" is executed but appears to lack the personnel to do so. 

5. Instead, the NSA is working with "Data Science Development Program interns" to "understand the false-positive use cases" and "help generate query options that can better minimize false-positives." Nevertheless, the NSA is anticipating "unintended downtime" of "mission-related" websites. 

6. While Trump's executive order claims to target "illegal and immoral discrimination programs," the NSA's banned-word list demonstrates that the implementation is far broader. The Trump administration is attempting to prohibit any acknowledgment that racism, stereotypes, and bias exist. ‪

7. The ban is so sweeping that "confirmation bias" — the tendency of people "to accept or notice information if it appears to support what they already believe or expect" — is included, even though it has nothing to do with race or gender. For example, the term "privilege" is used by the NSA in the context of "privilege escalation," which is a counterintelligence technique 





That's the Trump/Musk Regime's order. (It doesn't like the word, "antiracism!") And since it is the government ordering a government agency to ban these words, the Trump/Musk Regime can legally do it.

But the Trump/Musk Regime cannot stop private citizens from using those words in non-governmental publications (yet).

I intend to use them on this blog.


RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

 

The men on the right in the two photos are running this country. 

They partied with the two notorious pedophiles on the left in the two photos  





Saturday, February 8, 2025

Friday, February 7, 2025

HEROES IN BLACK HISTORY

 

Because this is a WOKE blog!


Woke definition: "being aware of and attentive to important issues, especially social and racial injustice."