Nonilex<p>Meanwhile in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> Speaker <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> defended <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a>’s conduct during the Oval Office meeting on Friday, saying that President Volodymyr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zelensky</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> “acted so inappropriately” & should have “shown more gratitude.”</p><p>“For him to act as he did was rather shocking to everyone,” Johnson said of Zelensky, speaking to CNN. “Instead of showing gratitude, he interrupted & berated his hosts at a very perilous time for his country.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a></p>
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Go Weapons Hot<p>"It started on social media with news that Mr. <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Gretzky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gretzky</span></a> had been booed in some <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> bars showing the game. That spread to fringe outlets using words like <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/traitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traitor</span></a>. Which allowed mainstream outlets to use the word in quotes. ...<br>Things were probably irreparable after the first time he was pictured in a <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> hat, gone full <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a>. But when he would not wear our uniform after wearing theirs, that was truly it."</p><p><a href="https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281500756988411" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globe2go.pressreader.com/artic</span><span class="invisible">le/281500756988411</span></a></p>
Fight Fascism #RESIST<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Gothamist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gothamist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gothamist-Gothamist</span></a></span> “Homan excoriated Hochul for supporting a state law that allows undocumented immigrants to get drivers’ licenses but prohibits ICE from accessing Department of Motor Vehicles data.</p><p>“ I don't know anyone who thinks she's doing a good job. She's an embarrassment,” he said.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CryMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CryMore</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DefundIce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefundIce</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In the afternoon session of his confirmation hearing, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> is starting to push back more against his critics, & trying to paint himself as a defender of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a>🤣. “You can say whatever you want about me,” Patel says. “Bring it on. But you will not denigrate the men and women of the FBI.” For years, Patel has vowed to fire its leadership, empty the FBI headquarters building & bring law enforcement agencies “to heel.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerformativePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerformativePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> is trying not to say that Joe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> won the 2020 election. Under repeated questioning from Sen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeterWelch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterWelch</span></a> (D-VT), Patel concedes only that Biden was “certified” as the president. “The other way to say it is he won,” Welch said. “What’s so hard about just saying Biden won the 2020 election?”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Investigators called <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> as a witness to ask him under oath whether what he had said was true. It is not a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lie</span></a> to the public, but it is a crime to lie <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnderOath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnderOath</span></a>. Booker was trying to get Patel to say whether, under oath, he recanted his corroboration of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s claim.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Pressed over his claims that even the fmr F.B.I. director <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisWray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisWray</span></a> should be prosecuted, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> says he “will not go backwards. There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as FBI director.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Sen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisCoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisCoons</span></a> asked whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> would open an investigation into a political adversary because <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> asked him to do so, or if he would stop a legitimate investigation into an ally of Trump if pressed. Patel says he will simply obey the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, but evades Coons’s question of whether he would resign if forced or directed to do otherwise.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> also tried to distance himself from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/QAnon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QAnon</span></a>, a group that has embraced <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a>. Asked if he is a supporter or follower of QAnon, Patel says no, & that he “rejected outright QAnon baseless conspiracy theories.”</p><p>Previously, Patel had said he saw some value in the community. “I disagree with a lot of what that movement says, but I agree with a lot of what that movement says,” he said in a 2022 interview.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> tried to defend himself on the issue of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> by saying he has always condemned violence against law enforcement, but he sidestepped entirely his involvement in producing the jailhouse recording of the so-called “Jan 6 choir” singing the national anthem. Several members of that “choir” were in custody specifically for violently assaulting police officers on Jan 6.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Durbin’s remarks highlight a theme of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a>’s resume. Nearly everywhere he has worked, from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a> Dept to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a>, Patel has complained that he was beset by people making bad decisions for improper, baldly political motives. Patel’s book brands them “government gangsters” who are part of the “deep state.” Durbin says that is conspiratorial thinking.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Richard Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> Cmte, told <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a> he “does not meet the standard” to lead the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a>.</p><p>Durbin said Patel lacks the temperament to wield the power of an FBI director: “This is someone who’s left behind a trail of grievances throughout his life, lashing out at anyone who disrespects him or doesn’t agree with him.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Grassley was implying that just opening a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> investigation into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> — into his efforts to overturn his loss of the 2020 election — was self-evidently a corrupt & politicized scheme. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> has “yet to learn a lesson,” Grassley tells <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a>. “I hope you will learn that lesson for them, or teach them that lesson.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sycophant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
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The chairman of the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte, #ChuckGrassley of Iowa, began #KashPatel’s hearing by defending Patel from critics who have called him unqualified. Grassley also accused fmr #FBI director #ChrisWray of mismanaging the agency. The FBI is “in crisis,” & “infected by political decision-making,” the #Republican lawmaker said in his opening remarks.
DeSantis Rushes to Use “Gulf of America”
Leave it to Ron #DeSantis to use an emergency weather advisory to showcase his unending allegiance to #Trump.
In a Monday state executive order warning Floridians of a fast-approaching winter storm, the governor referred to the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been referred to for at least 353 years, as the “Gulf of America.” The usage made #Florida the first state to fall in line with Trump’s plans to rename the ocean
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/desantis-rushes-to-use-gulf-of-america/
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Elon Musk, now worth over $400 BILLION, leads Trump's super-rich administration
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/17/elon-musk-now-worth-400b-leads-super-rich-administration
* Musk received a one-day bump of $62.8 billion
* 1st person in the world to reach $400 billion mark
* Musk's unfathomable wealth: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049297750914546
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#Musk #sycophant #AmericaPAC #DOGE
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy
#WealthTax
#Christofascism #transgenocide
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https://www.vox.com/politics/389481/kash-patel-trump-fbi-steve-bannon-podcast
I listened to hours of #Trump's FBI pick on 
#SteveBannon's 
#podcast. Oh boy
by #ZackBeauchamp 4 dec 2024
Vox · I listened to hours of Trump’s FBI pick on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Oh boy.By Zack Beauchamp
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Senate Republicans concerned with Gaetz nomination ask to access House ethics probe
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191708/gaetz-nomination-republicans-ethics-probe
* Gaetz's nomination as next attorney general could face uphill path in U.S. Senate
* growing number of Republican senators calling for access to U.S. House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz's conduct
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Matt Gaetz: Trump Picks Literally Worst Person You Know for Attorney General
https://newrepublic.com/post/188395/trump-cabinet-matt-gaetz-attorney-general
Of all the people in the universe, Donald Trump has settled on Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to lead the Justice Department.
The New Republic · Trump Picks Literally Worst Person You Know for Attorney GeneralOf all the people in the universe, Donald Trump has settled on Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to lead the Justice Department.
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Trump will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/g-s1-34072/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-doj-oversight
Trump to Nominate and Famously Bad Lawyer Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/matt-gaetz-attorney-general
* Florida congressman one of the Trump’s most loyal supporters
* builds upon Trump’s long-held views of Justice Department as extension of White House
* Trump threatening to prosecute enemies f. from Nancy Pelosi to media
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