Tom Dunn

Husband, dad, firefighter, labor leader, quarantine commando. Don't like my posts? Jog on then.

[Celine Castronuovo @cecelou18]

SCOOP: The Defense Department is planning to begin involuntarily activating military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and to represent the government in cases involving detained migrant children, according to recent emails.

With @benjaminpenn:

https://t.co/18h2KlvBXU

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Ted Cruz just called it a "victory for the plain language of the Constitution."

Here's the plain language of what just happened:

Trump can now fire anyone at the FTC who investigates his companies.

Anyone at the SEC who looks at his stock trades.

Anyone at the NLRB who protects your union.

Anyone at the FCC who regulates his media allies.

Anyone at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who disagrees with him.

90 years of regulatory independence, gone in one ruling. And this 🤡 calls that a victory. A victory for whom, exactly?

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

A missing Cambodian sculpture was discovered in a billionaire’s home in Florida after it was featured in Architectural Digest. https://t.co/xGyqZwqIEm

[U.S. Wildland Fire Service @USWFS]

We are saddened to share the identities of the three firefighters we lost responding to the Knowles Fire in western Colorado on Saturday. The firefighters were assigned to the Rifle Helitack crew and were engaged in initial attack operations on the Knowles Fire when the incident occurred.

The deceased firefighters have been identified as:
💜Emily Barker, 38, of Clinton Township, Michigan, assigned to the U.S. Forest Service Rifle Helitack.

💜Nick Hutcherson, 27 of Glendale, Arizona, assigned to the U.S. Forest Service Kaibab National Forest.

💜Sydney Watson, 27, of Warrior, Alabama, assigned to the U.S. Wildland Fire Service Rifle Helitack.

Two additional firefighters were injured during the incident and are receiving medical care.

“We mourn the loss of three firefighters who answered the call to protect others and made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their fellow citizens,” said U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy. “Our thoughts are with their families, loved ones, friends and crewmates as they face an unimaginable loss. These firefighters embodied the courage, professionalism and selflessness that define the wildland fire service. Please join me and my family in keeping our thoughts and prayers with the families of the fallen and our injured firefighters and their families.”

The full press release can be found here: https://t.co/2LLq8vJXOP

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

I’ll join MSNOW at 11 am to discuss how the appropriately named Slaughter case will decimate the federal civil service.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Q: What are your plans for the housing affordability bill?

Trump: I don't know. It's so unimportant

[FactPost @factpostnews]

February 10: Trump purchases up to $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprises, which manufactures 90% of all tasers

February 24: ICE opens a $220 million contract for tasers, requesting specifications that mirror Axon's top taser models

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Next Democratic president can just send out a general letter, to every department and agency, demanding the resignation of every person appointed by the Trump administration.

Congratulations on your big win today and even bigger loss tomorrow.

[Governor Katie Hobbs @GovernorHobbs]

My heart breaks for the family and crewmates of Nick Hutcherson, an Arizonan who died responding to the Knowles Fire in Colorado. He's a hero who embodied the courage and selflessness of our wildland fire service. We owe him a debt of gratitude we can never repay. Arizona stands with his loved ones and others who died and were injured fighting the fire.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to the state's unredacted copy of its statewide voter registration list.

DOJ is now 0-11 in these cases. Elias Law Group is undefeated. It may be time to invoke the mercy rule. https://t.co/khhZOnRX2L

[V @Vedthalegend]

Flashback to 2014 when Breyer gave his 6 tools of deciding a case, which he uses instead of Originalism/textualism

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

The Circle of Crime..

[John R. Eakin @JREakin]

Is that a Notre Dame pullover?! 😂🤣

A Baylor alumnus, who goes to Prestonwood non-denominational megachurch, is wearing a catholic university’s merch whilst cheating with a different megachurch pastor’s wife.

The definition of clusterfuck in single image. #txlege

[Virginia Professional Fire Fighters @TheVaPFF]

We are extremely proud of our brothers and sisters from @IAFF2068 and @VATF1 who are actively saving lives amidst the devastation in Venezuela. Virginians should be proud to have such dedicated and experienced rescuers located in the Commonwealth but available to serve the world.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
…
"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

I can vouch for this. We filled out the paperwork to be a food vendor specifically with barbecue and had planned to be there for the entire celebration. Stopped hearing from organizers late last summer, and here we are. Truly sad what has happened, this would have been a truly incredible event.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

And to add to the injustice and absurdity, Trump is likely to pardon everyone involved, including himself. And we've barely even begun to talk about the national security implications of Trump's international graft.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

BREAKING: Lara Trump performs at Trump’s National State Fair. Witnesses say the goats absolutely fucking nailed it.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.