Pam MacLean

Pam MacLean

@ptd151.bsky.social

Retired journalist, writes about fed trial & appellate courts, law.

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BREAKING: Venezuela had back to back earthquakes, 7.5, 7.1. Lots of damage. Hope they are safe. But will US send aid, as we should? #Venezuelaquakes

In the whirl of mass corruption this may be small, but really, what could DC do with $5 million trump took from national parks to paint gold leaf on 4 horse statues? Yes he did that.

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BREAKING: Gunman shot in lobby of correspondents dinner. Trump other sr . Officials rushed out safely. Security seen rushing stage with long guns pointed at crowd.

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“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, posted a pic shooting in Edgefield Co., SC. Importantly, Edgefield was the site of the murder of over 100 Black people in 1876, known as the Hamburg massacre. It came just before the last election of the Reconstruction era. White Supremacist Ben Tillman led it.

Add #1: Tillman served 24 years in the Senate. He bragged of the murders, including execution of a Black state legislator Simon Coker. Tillman and 94 white men were indicted but never prosecuted. There is still a Tillman monument there. Sen. Graham might want to seek its removal for justice sake.

#ICE #Minneapolis questions: Did they destroy crime scene? Were agents in shooting separated and questioned separately before they could compare stories? Were witnesses questioned? Normal investigation would.

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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

DHS Sec Kristi Noem just said Venezuelans should seek Temporary Protected Status and seek asylum in the US. Two weeks ago, 137 Venezuelans deported to CECOT prison in El Salvador won the right to challenge it as a due process violation. Irony is truly dead.

Trump auctioning a painting of Jesus for $2.75 million during his New Year's bash while people starve in Gaza and 12 million have fled Sudan's civil war, pretty much sums up 2025.

Jack Smith House Judicary transcript page 33: ..."once the attack on the Capitol happened, he refused to stop it. He instead issued a tweet that without question in my mind endangered the life of his own Vice President."

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In California, a mother of eight who has lived in the country for 40 years was deported just one day after she reported sexual harassment by an ICE contractor on her case. This action was taken despite a judge’s order prohibiting it.

Extraordinary exchange: Judge Michael Nachmanoff, “So Ms. Halligan was the stalking horse, or to use a different word — a puppet — for the president?” And not all grand jurors saw the indictment they supposedly approved. The case against Comey is sham.

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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

BREAKING: A divided full en banc 9th Circuit appeals ct allows Trump to keep national guard troops in LA. 11 judges dissented. Keeps in place a stay of the temporary restraining order.

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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.