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Today is an opinion day at SCOTUS. Opinions start at 10 EDT. Live-blogging at http://www.scotusblog.com (not affiliated with the Court).
These are the important argued cases still undecided from the 2025-2026 term:
Slaughter/Cook – Can the President fire an official at an “independent agency” without cause?
Watson v. NRSC – Can votes be counted in a federal election if they are received after election day?
NRSC v. FEC – Does the limit on campaign contributions violate the First Amendment?
Little/BPG –trannies on girls’ sports teams
Barbara – birthright citizenship
Also, Trump’s petition for cert in one of the two cases filed by E. Jean Carroll finally came up for a conference at SCOTUS last week. It had be re-listed for a cert conference many times, and Trump had just recently filed at request to hold this petition until he could file for cert in the other case coming from the Second Circuit, so the Court could consider both petitions for cert at the same time.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-573.html
It’s possible that the Court may just vote to hold the first petition until the second comes up. Or it could decide on whether to grant or deny cert. Court orders are released at 9:30 EDT.
Amen
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Day 161 of the 2nd year of the 2nd term of this very stable genius. History is being made in the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2026.
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He continues to make massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This second term, he is weeding them out faster and choosing like-minded servants who multiply his effectiveness. No U.S. president has ever faced so much organized resistance and treason than President Trump
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common. He does not show humility before men, but his actions show humility before God.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore. He is not afraid to call out our enemies.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and to the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the same healthy distrust held by our founders of government and men with too much power. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours. He believes that nations who treat their people well will also be good economic neighbors with us.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum. Lord please bring your power and might in the daily working of this sacred Nation you gave us.
AMEN
This weekend I sat next to a baby on a 10 hour flight.
I had no idea that it was possible
for someone to cry for 10 hours straight…
Even the baby was impressed. 🙂
Dear President Trump and our so-called “Negotiating Team“:
How’s that — ahem — “MOU” working out for us?
Iran must develop nuclear bomb to protect ‘peace and calm,’ IRGC media says — despite pledge to Trump
Re-commence the carpet-bombing of the IRGC in 5…4…3…2…
Amen, ed
I’m pretty dismayed that our military has been curtailed back to pitty-pat and so-called “self-defense” strikes
I say have the unified command call up a comprehensive list of identified targets and hit ’em all in a sweeping, mass campaign
All the rocket launchers
All the rocket manufacturing sites
All military manufacturing sites of any nature
Strafing runs on all mosquito boats out on the water
Strafing runs on all mosquito boats berthed at marinas
Power plants that serve military manufacturing and bases (leave some for civilian use)
ALL of it
Let’s get busy, boys
Iran doubles down on control of Strait of Hormuz after weekend of violence — as shipping traffic plummets
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran will exercise sole management of the Strait of Hormuz for the next 30 days before allowing full traffic to resume.
“Any attempt to adopt new or separate arrangements compared to what is underway by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will only lead to more complicated situations and delays in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and will increase the tensions, as we witnessed in the past two nights,” Araghchi told reporters in Iraq.
Under the terms of the MOU, Iran had agreed to keep the strait open and free for the full 60 days of negotiations before taking control of the waterway.
Iran said it plans to charge tolls or “insurance” for ships to cross after that — though the US has demanded no tolls can be allowed.
After Iran hit the Singapore ship, it apparently attacked the Panama-flagged tanker M/T Kiku, which was sailing from Qatar.
Iran is Glen Close the crazy woman in “Fatal Attraction”, you know, the one that kills your children’s pet rabbit and then pops out of your bathtub with a butcher knife and a crazed look on her face. Sure, the little fling you had with her was adventurous, exciting and even fun but, boy, walking away from her ain’t gonna be easy! 😎
The world should send their ships to the US for their oil, since POTUS had the oil companies here “Drill, baby, drill !!”.
Let traffic in the Strait of Hormuz dwindle to NOTHING, and starve Iran of oil $$$’s. Then re-commence bombing the IRGC !!!
Troll alert on the raising children thread.
Harry Smith.
“President Trump just now posted the most EPIC Painting.”….
“Video of the Senate Fountain located in the Lower Senate Park by the intersection of Louisiana Ave NW and D St. NE.”….
FOX & Friends
@foxandfriends
Meet Oliver Henry, the British World Cup fan who says he came to America expecting the worst – but ended up loving it!
Video linked…
Why does he let the media paint his eyes like a drag queen?
I will hold my tongue, except to say, I cant ever remember seeing Tulsi Gabbard wear that much makeup.
Over 400 officers and enlisted men died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn June 26, 1876. You remember Gen George Custer. Here are the names and faces of the officers who died with him…