John Olberding

My regular reminder that there is no such thing in the Constitution as a President's ability to declare martial law. Some Governors can. Congress can in narrow instances suspend habeus corpus. Presidents can in narrow instances suspend Posse Comitatus. But not martial law.

@RobertClark62 @RickPetree @arenella1 @david_hemond @fredwalton216 @HCandler @DavidZippel @Teri_Kanefield @kevin_snapp @KDbyProxy @HPalmerlll @jolberding01 @AmicusLegis @Antidote4BS @KeyserSozeThree @JohnOleske @mryoung151 @capitolhunters @mcopeland_ @MOWNeverSleeps Yes, plus violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. §1030) and theft of government property (18 U.S.C. §641), among potentially others.

April 1945: In the final days of World War II, the Führer obsesses over absurdly large monuments for his reimagined Berlin, focusing on an idealized future rather than the reality of his collapsing Reich.

Biden didn't pre-emptively pardon anyone until President-elect Trump made it clear he was gonna prosecute people out of vidincitive spite. Trump is here, 15 months into his term, encouraging his minions to commit crimes. STFU with your false equivalence.

CBS News: The U.S. has lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the Iran war. "The drones represent a loss of about $720 million." #post-update-8513916f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cbsnews.com/live-updates/i…

The rumors of Neymar to FC Cincinnati have taken the sports world by storm in the past 24 hours. @LaurelPfahler has been on top of it all from back in the fall, so I caught up with her to get some of her thoughts from what it would look like, potential contract details and more. As well as a preview of this weekends match vs Toronto!

The one person Trump can't pardon is himself, and anyone he pardons can no longer invoke the 5th Amendment and can be compelled to testify against him.

Coal ash is also more radioactive than nuclear waste. And now it’s going into your ground water that will go into drinking water and agriculture. Thanks MAGA.

Sounds like we need Benghazi-style hearings in Congress….

This story has legs. (gift) nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

Ohio teacher ordered to take down poster that read—"Hate Has No Home Here." School board voted that it constituted "sexuality content"—because it contained a rainbow colored heart. Poster also featured the American flag and the peace sign. Teacher has now filed lawsuit against the school district—arguing that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was ordered to remove the anti-hate poster. His classroom also features a "COEXIST" poster with religious symbols from around the world—but the school board doesn't have a problem with that. One board member who voted to remove the poster later resigned—after posts on social media denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler were made public. Incident occurred in the Little Miami School District suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Casualty COVER UP: They honored Maj. Sorffly Davius at his memorial. Then left him off the casualty list. He’s not the only one. The Intercept has now published two investigations exposing what one defense official called a "casualty cover-up." The Pentagon keeps releasing lowball numbers. When reporters ask for accurate counts, Central Command stops responding. They've ignored more than a dozen requests for clarification in the past week alone. Here's what the numbers actually look like. The Pentagon's own casualty tracking system can't even agree with itself. One page lists 372 troops wounded in action. Another page, updated the same day, lists 357. Central Command told The Intercept the number was 303. Three different numbers from the same government about the same war. And all three of those numbers are undercounts. More than 200 sailors were treated for smoke inhalation and lacerations after a fire aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford before it limped out of the war zone for repairs. None of them are counted. A soldier named Maj. Sorffly Davius died of sudden illness while deployed to Kuwait in support of the war. A congressman spoke at his memorial. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs honored him by name. He's not on the Pentagon's casualty list. The Air Force officer rescued from behind enemy lines in Iran was, in Trump's own words, "bleeding rather profusely" and "injured quite badly." The Pentagon claims "zero American casualties" from that mission. Hegseth stood at a podium and said "not a single thing we've done has put an American troop in more of a harm's way." Current and former Pentagon officials say that's a lie, that the Department of War failed to adequately protect troops on bases across the Middle East, forcing service members to retreat to hotels and office buildings during attacks. This is not new behavior. After Iran struck Al-Asad Air Base during Trump's first term, he said "no Americans were harmed." The Pentagon eventually admitted 110 troops suffered traumatic brain injuries. Trump dismissed those as "headaches." The Army, whose soldiers man interceptor missile systems on bases across the region, has suffered the most casualties: 251 wounded according to the Pentagon's own data. The Army is only now seeking sensors to detect blast overpressure injuries that cause traumatic brain injuries. They started a war without the equipment to even measure what it's doing to the people fighting it. And the long-term cost? If the roughly 50,000 troops deployed to the Middle East file disability claims at the same rate as Gulf War veterans, it would add $600 billion in costs over their lifetimes. The Pentagon wants $200 billion in supplemental war funding now. The true cost will be in the trillions. They started a war without planning for the families who fled Bahrain. They started a war without equipment to measure brain injuries. And now they're lying about how many Americans have been hurt.

Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who allegedly introduced Melania to Trump in 1998, fathered Ungaro's child. They were engaged in an ugly custody battle. Zampolli leaned on ICE and his Trump connections to DEPORT Ungaro. Zampolli also allegedly represented Melania when she was a model...

First Lady Melania Trump has complained about "mean-spirited" comments about her. Last month her hubby depicted Michelle Obama as an ape.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge April 10 Farm Animal Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (1972)

FUN FACT: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring.

After U.S. military members came forward disputing the Pentagon's account of the Iranian drone attack on a U.S. base in Kuwait, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rick Crawford (R-AR), says the claim "bears congressional inquiry" if true.

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…

BREAKING: A “Vatican source close to Pope Leo XIV” tells NBC Chicago that the Pentagon meeting between Trump officials and the Vatican’s top American diplomat “was most unpleasant and confrontational.” This is now the fourth news outlet to describe the meeting in this way.

BREAKING: A federal judge today ordered the government to turn over — by May 1 — a significant array of records from the killing of Renee Good in relation to a separate case involving her killer, ICE officer Jonathan Ross Scoop by @A_CampbellNews and me theintercept.com/2026/04/09/ren…