[NYPost] Rep. Jamie Raskin ...hanky-headed Congressman-for-life from Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which pushes (and defines) reason and science. In 2017 the newly-elected Raskin and several other members of the House objected to the certification of the 2016 presidential election because of (muh!) Russia. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Raskin was one of seven Democrats appointed to pack the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Before his election to Congress he was just another lefty law professor.... threatened foreign leaders who "facilitated authoritarianism in our country" by currying favor with President Trump on issues like deportation — saying that Democrats will not "look kindly" on his supporters when they "come back to power."
Referencing El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele specifically, Raskin (D-Md.), 62, suggested that Dems should keep score of foreign leaders who brownnose Trump, 78, during his second term.
"Implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power — and we will — we are not going to look kindly upon people who ... facilitated authoritarianism in our country," Raskin told "Pod Save America" host Tommy Vietor in an episode that dropped Saturday.
Vietor had told Raskin that a Latin American policy expert suggested to him that Democrats should "threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens."
Trump has tapped into warpowers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rapidly deport alleged gangbangers outside of traditional deportation channels to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) megaprison.
So far, those deportations have pertained to illegal immigrants, but Trump has publicly mused about exploring the legality of shipping extremely violent criminals who are US citizens to foreign countries.
Raskin praised the concept of putting foreign countries on notice and called for cutting off foreign aid to El Salvador in response to its cooperation with the Trump administration’s deportations of alleged gangbangers via warpowers.
"The whole idea that Bukele doesn’t have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he’s getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous," Raskin contended. "He’s our legal agent in this dubious arrangement they created. Of course, he’s got the power to return them."
Last week, Bukele met with Trump in the White House, becoming the first Latin American leader to do so, and claimed that he lacked the power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US, calling questions about returning him "preposterous."
Abrego Garcia, 29, a citizen of El Salvador, had illegally entered the US in 2011, and was blocked from being deported back home in a 2019 court decision due to gang threats against him.
The Trump administration deported him to El Salvador last month in what its attorneys initially described as an "error." Top officials have since defended his deportation and alleged that he’s had ties to MS-13, something his attorneys and family deny.
Raskin added that his party needs to engage "in far more work of transnational Democrat solidarity" to try and "prevent the spread of lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us."
Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Trump in Congress.
He had previously been a top defender of Hunter Biden from GOP-backed inquiries into the scandal-scarred first son.
A former constitutional law professor, Raskin argued that "we’re living in something like a gangster state right now" under Trump.
"We have to stop that, obviously, to prevent a slide into complete dictatorship," Raskin said of the administration’s use of foreign prison systems.
"Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. Could he be sent off to a foreign prison?," he mused.
"We’ve got to become the leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the descent into fascism in America," he argued before pivoting to slamming tech guru Elon Musk’s kindred spirits in Silicon Valley.
"These people really believe that democracy is defunct. They say we live in a constitutional America."
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Raskin added that his party needs to engage "in far more work of transnational
Democrat solidarity" to try and "prevent the spread of lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us."
[GatewayPundit] Topline: Ten state-level agencies accidentally overpaid $10.4 billion — and possibly much more — to people filing for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the overpayments were genuine mistakes, but an estimated $676.3 million was fraud.
The thing was designed to not merely allow but encourage fraud, preferentially feeding money to favoured groups of Friends of the Democrats.
Key facts: That’s according to a report from the Department of Labor that was conducted by the consulting group Regis & Associates. It reviewed labor departments in Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin from April 2020 to September 2022. Each state was paying unemployment insurance using federal funds sent through the CARES Act.
Call the DOGE crew! Or, you know, contact those Republican-congrolled states putting together DOGE initiatives of their own, like Florida.
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probably over %200B nationally in fraud or unintentional mispayments (the list in the article didn't include California, Minnesota and Illinois)
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During my time in the Navy DKs would periodically make a mistake and overpay me. The government always seemed very interested in recouping the money.
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[JustTheNews] Critics of the new push to ban soda and candy purchases under SNAP say it unfairly targets lower income families, limits consumer choice and won't result in better health outcomes.
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SNAP is necessary. If they go through the rolls, they will find the same issues with dead people and others getting benefits. I would resolve that first before dealing with candy issue so that the anti-corruption push does not get sidetracked.
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BREAKING - Colonel Sheyla Baez, the individual who refused to display photos of President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Pete Hegseth at her base, has been suspended as Fort McCoy Commander. pic.twitter.com/NzgWW3m5bM
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You are supposed to be apolitical as an officer. The fact that you won't show your COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S photo show you are disloyal and disobeys your oath.
Run her out of the service and yank her retirement. Fuck the stupid bitch.
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IIRC, all officers serve at the pleasure of the president. So relieving her is the least she should expect. If posting the pi turns is part of an instruction, rather than just a tradition, she could be charged with disobeying an order.
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Eric Adams just did something nobody expected—he defended ICE, and took a blowtorch to the far left for demonizing law enforcement.
And honestly? It might be the most reasonable thing he’s ever said.
Adams said speaking to Laura Trump on Fox:
“One of the big mistakes that’s being made in some parts of the far-left philosophy is that ICE is a criminal organization,”
“They are not. They are part of our law enforcement community — FBI, HSI, postal service investigators — they are part of our law enforcement community.”
He wasn’t just breaking with his old party. He was calling it out.
“We have to get bad, dangerous people off our street. I continue today of collaborating with our city, state and federal agencies to go after dangerous people.”
And when the left tries to spin deporting violent illegal immigrants into a political attack?
Adams doesn’t flinch.
“So people who want to turn this into a political agenda, I’m focused on New Yorkers,” he said. “80% of New Yorkers are stating, those who commit dangerous acts that are undocumented [illegal], after they are convicted and serve their time, they should be deported.”
Then he made it personal.
“I’m in alignment with working class people in this city and in this country,” he added. “That is what I believe in.”
The far left may want ICE gone—but Adams just flipped the script. Like many things, "Being a welcoming society" and being a "sanctuary" sounds better in principle than it works in reality. Importing somebody else's poopy diapers makes them your poopy diapers.
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His statements seem as controversial as an ingredients list on a loaf of bread.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...hanky-headed Congressman-for-life from Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which pushes (and defines) 
