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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalThe condition of the Israeli hostages just released by Hamas is both disturbing and disgusting
These hostages were starved and tortured
https://x.com/Israel/status/1888275121489469484
https://x.com/AJCGlobal/status/1888210207001456732
https://x.com/FAB87F/status/1888739516527034807
https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1888740522073673968
https://x.com/FAB87F/status/1888740409003708500
Musk has been targeting agencies who are investigating him
Musk is targeting agencies/groups/inspector generals who have targeted Musk.
https://x.com/Msdesignerlady/status/1888361289501565405
Nicolle Wallace: FBI internal letter is 'an urgent warning for every American'
Full letter transcript👇
Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice
Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.
Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware of. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.
I am the coach of your childs soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.
This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep-cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.
Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of prediction and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.
I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?
Nicolle Wallace: FBI internal letter is 'an urgent warning for every American'
Full letter transcript👇
Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice
Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.
Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware of. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.
I am the coach of your childs soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.
This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep-cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.
Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of prediction and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.
I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?
Reagan-appointed judge slams Trump's approach to the rule of law
"The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore," a Reagan-appointed judge said in reference to Donald Trump.
https://bsky.app/profile/stubronstein.bsky.social/post/3lhmkkxnays2q
https://x.com/deviousfranklin/status/1888014358149496891
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/reagan-appointed-judge-slams-trumps-approach-rule-law-rcna191259
The language of the Constitutions 14th Amendment does not lend itself to wiggle room. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside, it reads. In other words, if youre born in the U.S., youre a citizen of the U.S.
Nevertheless, on Inauguration Day, the new Republican president kept one of his uglier campaign promises and issued an executive order that not only rejected the constitutional principle but also directed federal agencies to refuse to recognize U.S. citizenship for children who do not meet the administrations new standards.....
But its worth appreciating the degree to which Coughenour named to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan lowered the boom on Team Trump. The longtime jurist concluded:
It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain. Nevertheless, in this courtroom and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow.
The Constitution, the judge added, is not something the government can play policy games with.
Ouch.
This was hardly the only recent example of Trump facing judicial eloquence in the midst of a legal setback some of the rulings in Jan. 6 cases are especially notable and given the scope of the lawsuits surrounding the White Houses agenda, it probably wont be the last.
Maddowblog-AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force
Pam Bondi is the first attorney in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBIs Foreign Influence Task Force.
https://bsky.app/profile/jacquesd59.bsky.social/post/3lhmi2vnqds2p
https://x.com/chrisser1951/status/1887969542627795312
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-shutters-fbis-foreign-influence-task-force-rcna191221
Ordinarily, this isnt the sort of background one expects to find on a U.S. attorney generals résumé. Senate Republicans, however, didnt much care and confirmed Bondi anyway.
On Wednesday, Bondi took the oath in the Oval Office with Trump nearby, looking over her shoulder. Hours later, as NBC News reported, the former foreign agent shuttered her countrys Foreign Influence Task Force.
In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics. Buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos Bondi issued Wednesday, the order disbands the FBIs Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat.
This task force was established in 2017 by Trumps first handpicked FBI director, Chris Wray, before he fell out of favor in response to several foreign influence operations......
But in the opening weeks of Trumps second term, his handpicked attorney general nevertheless decided that itd be a good idea to close the FBI office focused on combating foreign influence campaigns.
Frank Figliuzzi, former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News contributor, called the developments astounding, adding: Its now a free-for-all for foreign intel services seeking influence.
Its going to be a long four years.
MaddowBlog-Trump makes an outrageous choice for his White House Faith Office
After Trump's 2020 loss, Paula White said "demonic confederacies" were trying to steal the election. She'll now lead the new White House Faith Office.
https://bsky.app/profile/turquoise-cat.bsky.social/post/3lhlwkxagdk2w
After Trump's 2020 loss, Paula White said "demonic confederacies" were trying to steal the election. She'll now lead the new White House Faith Office.
You cant make this craziness up!!!🤪
https://x.com/kkalmes2/status/1887985205996085302
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-outrageous-choice-white-house-faith-office-rcna191170
But as a Reuters report noted, there was one other element of the presidents vision that stood out:
The president on Thursday also announced he will create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to him for many years.
As a practical matter, this White House office, which also existed during Trumps first term, probably wont have a dramatic impact on public policy. It is, however, worth pausing to appreciate who the president is welcoming onto his team......
The Hill also noted that White delivered an opening prayer before Trumps re-election campaign kickoff, saying demonic networks had aligned themselves against the Republican. As People for the American Way noted, it was a familiar refrain: In the wake of Trumps 2020 defeat, the same televangelist held multiple emergency prayer services to battle the demonic confederacies that were supposedly trying to steal the election.
The same report from People for the American Way added:
White joined Trump at the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where she prayed that God would give rallygoers a holy boldness and that every adversary would be overturned right now in the name of Jesus. ... White has repeatedly declared that her mere presence in the White House makes it holy ground and warned that to oppose Trump is to oppose God.
Its not altogether clear what Whites responsibilities will be leading the White House Faith Office, or whether she intends to accept a taxpayer-funded salary. Watch this space.
MaddowBlog-Why the new cover of Time magazine is likely to get Trump's attention
Exactly eight years ago this week, Steve Bannon appeared on Time magazine's cover, and he departed the White House soon after. Is it Elon Musk's turn?
https://bsky.app/profile/lmariev.bsky.social/post/3lhm4xfrss22o
https://x.com/asytactrain/status/1887922012716413298
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-cover-time-magazine-likely-get-trumps-attention-rcna191200
Around the same time, The New York Times reported that Trump quietly expressed annoyance at the attention Bannon was receiving. The president was especially unhappy, the report added, about the President Bannon puppet-master theme promoted by magazines, late-night talk shows and Twitter.
But it was the Time cover that, according to multiple reports, especially bothered Trump, who has long invested great importance in the magazines cover images. (At one point, he even took a fake Time magazine cover, featuring his image, and hung it up in at least five of his properties around the world.)....
Eight years to the week after Bannon graced the magazines cover, getting Trumps attention, Time published a similarly striking report. The Hill reported:
A new cover of Time magazine features billionaire Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House. The photo illustration teased a cover story titled Inside Elon Musks War on Washington, which chronicles his efforts to implement massive government reforms during President Trumps first weeks in office.
The cover image, showing Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as if he were the real president, is not at all subtle.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc


To be sure, its entirely possible that the president will put aside his legendary insecurities and be entirely unbothered by the magazines cover.
But its also possible that Trump, desperate to be the only star in his White House production, will find the image infuriating, and this will mark the beginning of the end of Musks powerful role in the administration.
The Borowitz Report- Massive Computer Error by DOGE Donates Musk's Entire Fortune to Save the Children
We need satire in this crazy world
https://bsky.app/profile/cirellan.bsky.social/post/3lhlz3xtav22e
https://x.com/Charlie85915085/status/1887915073408041348
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/massive-computer-error-by-doge-donates
Treyson Parlow, 16, said that he had apologized to Musk, whose net worth now stands at zero dollars.
In fairness, he never should have hired me, the sophomore said. I got a C in computer science last semester.
According to sources, frantic attempts by the newly impoverished Musk to reach Donald J. Trump have gone straight to voicemail.
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