“I have concluded that it is necessary to rescind Merrick Garland’s policies precluding the Department of Justice from seeking records and compelling testimony from members of the news media in order to identify and punish the source of improper leaks,” Bondi wrote in an internal memo obtained by Axios.

Bondi’s announcement comes as several federal agencies have been beset by constant — and often embarrassing — leaks.

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    I have concluded that it is necessary to

    You just gotta love how these people heard this phrase in courts and thought: “It sounds so official, I’ll use that too!” yet they somehow completely missed that that was always prefixed with a huge list of factual reasons why they have come to that conclusion

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      Eh, not just America. Both France and Germany are seeing a rise in right-wing ideologies, not to mention the countries where they’re already in power.

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        The UK is likely to leap to the right next time they have an election too. They had a decade and a half of terrible right-wing government then voted for something else, but what they got was terrible centrist government and they’re frustrated. The centrists expelled all the left politicians from the Labour Party, so now the choice in England at least is Labour’s centrism-with-bigotry, incompetent Conservative, neo-fascist, another fairly directionless centrist party that appears to be led by a clown, or Green. Because people are angry, it’s likely to flip far right.

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    I cant wait to watch in real time the downfall of this regime and see every one of these heinous pigs taken to slaughter