Jaber Borran

Category: Congress

  • The SAVE Act

    I had previously quoted a professor of mine that if someone offers you an oversimplified solution to a complex problem, either they are a fool, or they are taking you as a fool. The SAVE act is a very good example of the scenario in that quote. I will explain, but let me start by…

  • Senate Confirmation Hearings

    I’m tired of seeing the Democratic senators asking, during their confirmation hearings, Trump’s sycophantic nominees for cabinet positions or federal judgeships or other important positions of power, that “who won the 2020 presidential election,” only to hear the rehearsed response that Biden was certified as the president in January 2021, or more recently, even outright…

  • Hope

    Three things that keep me hopeful about the future of the country, and humanity in general: Long live the King!

  • Shameless Crimes and Coverups, then Name Callings and Deflections

    A large portion of this post is extracted from a recent Talking Feds Substack newsletter. Last Friday, DOJ shipped to the House Judiciary Committee some documents about the Mar-a-Lago prosecution against Donald Trump led by Special Counsel Jack Smith. These are documents that the AG Pam Bondi must have thought would be damning to Jack…

  • Fighting Fire with …

    When I was in high school, a very good teacher of mine once told me something that I don’t think I will ever forget. Most of my friends have likely already heard me say this, possibly multiple times, but I am going to write it here again, anyways. He said: “Jaber, I think one should…

  • Government Shutdown, 2025

    By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…

  • You Be the Judge

    Yesterday, Todd Blanche, the number two political appointee at the DoJ, and the President’s fixer and former criminal defense attorney (who unsuccessfully defended him in the porn star Stormy Daniel’s hush money case that resulted in 34 felony convictions for the President), rushed to a prison in Florida where Ghislaine Maxwell is serving her 20-year…

  • Everyone Matters

    While, admittedly, there are more falsehoods on the Internet than facts, it is still possible for any interested individual to search for a recent news, read about it from multiple sources, and determine the facts or falsehoods in different presentations of that news across different outlets with different agenda, preferably avoiding AI generated material and…

  • Weaponization of the DoJ

    “President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials Thursday to investigate two of his former first-term officials who publicly refuted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and criticized his chaotic administration from within.” I wonder if Jim Jordan will make as much noise, or open an investigation, as…

  • Fixing the Elections, or Voter Suppression?

    In the last post, I discussed the magnitude of potential errors due to ineligible voters in the election results in the US, and proposed a very generous confidence interval of 0.01%, based on the results of a recent investigation from the state of Georgia, a with substantial amount of overestimation and scaling to be applicable…