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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: FOILED AGAIN! A federal judge just used Pete Hegseth's own unhinged anti-press rants to block his Pentagon press crackdown,

Ever since he left his cushy job at Fox News, Pete Hegseth has been raging about the media he was once an integral part of. On Tuesday, a federal judge made him eat every word.

s issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Defense Department's restrictions on press access to the Pentagon — and he did it by quoting Hegseth's own blather back at him, chapter and verse.

The rule Friedman blocked required all journalists visiting the Pentagon to have an official escort at all times — a policy the New York Times sued over in May after the DOD issued it as a workaround following the Times' earlier legal victory against Pentagon press restrictions.

But Hegseth handed the judge his own rope. Friedman cited "a consistent stream of derisive comments" from Hegseth in his ruling, methodically documenting the Defense Secretary's open hostility toward the press.

The judge quoted Hegseth attacking the Times for "slashing and burning people to ruin their reputations." He quoted Hegseth railing against the "legacy Trump-hating press" peddling an "endless stream of garbage." He even quoted Hegseth comparing reporters to the biblical Pharisees who "scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation, only looking for the negative."

The judge also made sure to include Pentagon flack Sean Parnell calling the Times "garbage" for good measure.

In other words: you told us exactly why you were doing this. And it wasn't national security.

Because that's the DOD's official excuse — that reporters were "maintaining a persistent physical presence near sensitive spaces." But when your Defense Secretary has spent months on record comparing journalists to ancient enemies of Jesus Christ, it gets a little hard to argue your escort rule is really about protecting classified information.

Meanwhile, Hegseth has been handing out press credentials to right-wing influencers and friendly outlets while squeezing out critical journalists. The goal was never security. It was control — deciding who gets to see what, and making sure unflattering coverage becomes impossible.

"This court has spoken at several points about the critical importance of protecting the freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment," Friedman wrote, "and that evergreen message bears repeating."

Let’s hope that Pete Hegseth, who has repeatedly tried to silence the press, hears it this time. The First Amendment doesn’t care how Hegseth wants himself and the Pentagon portrayed in the media. If he wants better press, he’s simply going to have to behave in a way that garners it.

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BREAKING: THAT'S RIGHT! E. Jean Carroll's attorneys REJECT Trump's desperate request for her to give him more time to cough up the $5.8 million that he owes her.

No mercy for this monster...

Shortly after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump's appeal of the civil case verdict that Carroll won in 2023, his legal team reached out to hers and asked if the payment could be delayed as they try to get the court to reconsider its rejection of their appeal.

In other words, Trump lost and then begged for time to scheme his way to a victory. Carroll's lawyers promptly and bluntly refused.

Consider the gall here. Not only did Trump sexually assault this women, he then went on to defame her publicly and frequently, and fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Then, when he was unable to get his desired result, he reduced himself to begging, as if this entire saga was simply a matter of cordial disagreement instead of deeply contentious and laced with cruelty.

At the same time that he was pleading with her to hold off on collection, he was posting on Truth Social that he "never met" her, that the defamation claim is "ridiculous," and that he's battling "injustice."

In their court filing, Carroll's attorneys Roberta Kaplan, D. Brandon Trice, and Maximilian T. Crema stated that there is simply no reason for further payment delay — especially since the justices, including the conservatives, unanimously agreed not to hear the case.

“To date, Carroll has agreed to each of defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her. Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today. It is time for him to pay Carroll,” the lawyers wrote.

The roughly $5.8 million sum ticked up to its current amount thanks to interest accrued as Trump dragged his feet and sought relief through the court system. Originally, a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and then defamation damages were added on top. Trump is currently appealing a separate $83 million defamation verdict that Carroll won in 2024.

Carroll's attorneys referred to this current juncture as "the end of the line” and stated that it's “time for him to pay Carroll.”

Trump must immediately surrender the money to Carroll and then she has to remain eagle-eyed. If he defames her again, she should hit him with an even bigger lawsuit!

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with E. Jean Carroll!

[Lilia Hernandez @mrsdoubleLH]

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Gina Hinojosa in a fearless speech accepting the Texas Democratic nomination for Governor. Texans are fed up with Greg Abbott pillaging the middle class to give to the mega rich and Gina will make working families her priority.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon hit with HISTORIC first-ever impeachment for illegally dismantling the department she runs Linda McMahon — the former pro-wrestling executive Trump installed to run the Department of Education — is now facing the first impeachment of an Education Secretary in American history. And the reason is simple: she's accused of breaking federal law to destroy her own department.

Oregon Democrat Suzanne Bonamici introduced articles of impeachment Thursday, accusing McMahon of "illegally transferring the operations of 6 offices under the Department of Education to other Federal agencies."

Here's the core of it. The Department of Education was created by Congress in 1980. By law, only CONGRESS can shut it down. But McMahon — carrying out Trump's campaign promise to dismantle it — has been gutting the department piece by piece anyway, using backdoor "interagency agreements" to shove its programs over to Health and Human Services and the Labor Department.

The problem? Many of those programs are LEGALLY REQUIRED to stay within the Education Department. McMahon doesn't have the authority to move them. She's doing it anyway.

"McMahon has made it her mission to close down the Department of Education, something she does not have the right to do," Bonamici said on the House floor. And she made clear exactly who gets hurt: "Educators and parents, especially parents of students with DISABILITIES, are distraught and asking us to take action to stop these illegal transfers."

That's the cruelty at the heart of this. The Education Department administers critical protections and funding for students with disabilities — kids who depend on federal oversight to get the education they're legally entitled to. McMahon is throwing that into chaos.

McMahon's response was pure deflection, whining on X that Democrats think "an impeachable offense is working to improve student outcomes" before pivoting to her favorite culture-war obsession — attacking trans students, a focus of hers since day one.

The impeachment is unlikely to succeed in the GOP-controlled House. But it draws a crucial line: a Cabinet official cannot simply IGNORE the law and unilaterally dismantle a department Congress created.

A wrestling executive shouldn't get to bulldoze public education.

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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Lilia Hernandez @mrsdoubleLH]

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