The Constitution authorizes impeachment for any damn thing you can get 67 Senators to vote yes on.
The Constitution does not authorize impeachment for a Secretary carrying out the orders of the Executive. That would give Congress direct power over Executive functions
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Article II, Section 4 subjects all civil Officers, including Cabinet secretaries, to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. No exception for following presidential orders. Belknap (1876) and Mayorkas (2024) were impeached.
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And 39 million Californians get the same representation in the Senate as Wyoming with 1/80th the population.
Rural conservatives in deep-blue states are effectively governed without consent. In New York, Republicans win most counties yet still lose statewide by 20 points because dense urban and suburban voters in New York City and its suburbs cast the decisive ballots and vote overwhelmingly Democratic. The result is that rural and upstate communities pay the taxes, live under the regulations, and absorb the costs set by politicians they consistently reject. Same story in California and Illinois. Population density has become a veto over the rest of the state.
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If there’s any Republican that knows when it’s time to walk away from the one you brought to the dance when the going gets tough, it’s ‘ole Newt here.
The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open.
If the administration had won a big victory, Vice President J D Vance would have had an enormous argument to be the inevitable nominee.
Now, with this go-slow strategy blowing up in Iran and his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy's horrible, inhumane ad featuring his opponent's mother attacking her own daughter, a good bit of the luster has come off the bloom.
The number of people who want to draft Secretary of State Marco Rubio is staggering.
In addition, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Pete Hegseth, Glenn Youngkin, and a surprising number of people may decide this is their chance to take advantage of the chaos of the shocking defeat and seek to be the champion who can rescue the party and the country.
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I mean TBF if you believe the Dems are going to win but think there’s a non-zero chance of rat fucking tomorrow, and can afford the bet, $1.5M is a pretty good insurance policy to help ride out shit going sideways another two years.
BREAKING: We just caught another massive prediction market trade.
Someone just bet $100,000 that Republicans will win both the House and the Senate tomorrow.
They will win $1,684,023 if they are correct.
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Donald Trump kidnapped the president of Venezuela and assassinated the leadership of Iran, but Carney saying he’ll just wait two years to negotiate with someone else is unlawful interference?
Mark Carney: Canada is prepared to wait for a new US president rather than sign Trump's trade deal.
Isn't that a midterm election interference?
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Yall have fun through Election Day. There is absolutely nothing new that is going to happen at this point and I’m spending a lot of time with family. My prediction is it’s going to be a bloodbath. I hope it’s not, but there is a very real chance and even likelihood that 3/4 major Southern races go Dem. There is a chance that we go Dem. Say whatever you want, but I do not want that, and that is why I am so pissed about what happened with Darline. She was the only candidate who risked this. I’m still doing what I’ve said I would do all along because I cannot support her or that cabal, ever. The Republicans in DC suck. The only people worse than them are the Republicans in Columbia. We need to send them all home (from both parties) and start over.
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Not one article on this has said who the sender was.
It’s not a valid test if the “From:” is within the org.
Knicks sent a "phishing email" disguised as a championship ring offer to Madison Square Garden employees.
Those that clicked the fake link were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to "help satisfy some of [James] Dolan's cybersecurity concerns."
(via @joevardon)
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Corporate TLS interception should have been strangled in the crib and every company that sold it driven out of the industry.
Suddenly everyone is obsessed about CA certs, let me tell you there is no such thing called "Transport Layer Security", it's a scam.
Let say your employer install a private root, like Zscaler on every corporate laptop. It can mint a cert for any site with no certificate timestamp, no log entry and no warning.
Chrome or any other browser only enforce certificate timestamp for publicly trusted CAs. Zscaler root is exempted so it can impersonate any domain, unlogged, with a normal padlock.
That's how TLS inspection boxes like Zscaler forge certs for any site without tripping a single alarm.
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The Speech and Debate clause says you can talk about it, and let the public decide if you were right or not.
Congress isn’t bound to the Executive’s classification system if it’s being used for illegitimate purposes to deceive the taxpayers.
Behind closed doors, the DoD has made a bad habit of classifying the minimal details they choose to tell Congress. Why?
Because if it's classified, we can't talk about it and they can go on hiding the cost of this war from the public.
No more. Americans deserve to know.
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How about buying embargoed diesel?
JUST IN: SCOTUS has granted cert in a case that could define what it means to provide "material support" to terrorists
The case involves a man who was hired to cook meals for a terrorist camp in Nigeria and fled, he says, once he realized their true aims. ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/24…
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My take on AI consciousness:
Humans elected Donald Trump. Along with putting a few hundred other monsters into positions of power around the world in the last 2000 years.
Human consciousness isn’t really some sacred gift worth bragging about.
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The clock change gives us 363 24 hour days, one 23 hour day and one 25 hour day a year.
The obvious answer is continuous clock slew that provides the optimum wake-to-sundown alignment every day. Add or remove a few seconds every night.
Year-round DST sucks, and year-round standard time sucks. If only there was a way to not have the same one year-round.
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He bragged about looting Venezuela and murdering foreign citizens on the open seas without due process. How is that defending the sovereignty of nations.
Today at the @UN, President Trump made clear that we will lead with peace through strength, champion economic vitality, and defend the sovereignty of nations.
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But we can’t let Iran have nuclear weapons because they’re a bunch of religious fanatics.
.@SECWAR "This is our first stop on what we are calling the SEND ME TOUR.
If you know your Book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, Verse 8, the Lord said, 'Whom shall I send?' Isaiah says, 'Lord, I AM HERE. SEND ME...'
For 250 years of this country, there have been men and women who RAISED THEIR RIGHT HAND and said, 'SEND ME.'
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE REDCOATS.
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE COMMUNISTS.
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE ISLAMISTS.
AND YOU ARE SAYING, SEND ME TO GO FIGHT WHATEVER THREATS THREATEN OUR NATION.'"
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