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He's doing it to impress Democrat-leaning viewers, not for magas. But I don't think this kind of comedic trolling & snark is what Dem voters really mean when they say they want to see Dem politicians being "fighters" against these fascists. If it is, we're in trouble.
The idea that it breaks through to Fix News viewers is ridiculous. To break through, they'd have to be listening, and they're NOT listening to any Dems.
The idea that it breaks through to Fix news viewers is ridiculous. To break through, they'd have to be listening, and they're NOT listening to any Dems.
Answer: It's not valuable. Worse than not valuable, it IS hurting more than it helps.
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
“The Future of Voting Rights Is on the Line at the Supreme Court” electionlawblog.org?p=151887
A Study in Headlines U.K. MEDIA vs U.S. MEDIA
They just pushed it back to 3pm! www.c-span.org/event/white-...
Yes. Six days ago they implemented a regulation claiming to give Bondi the authority to make any government lawyer a temporary immigration judge. Whether that’s legal remains to be seen. There will 100% be challenges, as a removal order issued by an unlawfully appointed judge shouldn’t be valid.
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sen. Patty Murray (WA) says she will use the "blue slip" process to block the appointment of Pete Serrano. The century-old practice irks the authoritarian in the WH, who has called it “old and outdated” and threatened action to end it. Article here: 🔗 washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/28/w...
In a serious authoritarian move, the FBI arrested an Army veteran for protesting against ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Supreme Court and Trump’s tariffs: an explainer
Justice Samuel Alito was the last member of the court to file his financial disclosure for 2024. Here's a look at what's in it.
In a Wednesday filing, Louisiana urged the Supreme Court to uphold an order barring its race-based redistricting map, writing that it "wants out of this abhorrent system of racial discrimination."
Skrmetti and birth equality (Part IV), SCOTUSblog (Sep. 2, 2025) 🔗👇🏽 www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/skrm...
An interesting interview yesterday with filmmaker Ken Burns, who has a new 6 part, 12-hour documentary series about the American Revolution coming out in November. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Getting very frustrated with the IGNORING of my question, which I have been asking for several days. Is it really such a difficult question that folks can't even attempt to provide an answer?
It has been CLEAR for a very long time that Project 2025—everything they're doing to destroy both the operation & trust in government institutions—IS Bannon's "deconstruction of the administrative state" and the plan they're following IS Project 2025. Why have WE stopped talking about Project 2025?
‘What are they hiding?’: Four Illinois Democrats were denied entry into the Broadview ICE facility for an unannounced oversight visit. Democratic members of Congress who have been denied entry to ICE facilities have filed a federal lawsuit against the regime 🔗 archive.fo/vv3jd
Organized Communities Against Deportations 🔗 www.organizedcommunities.org
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 🔗 www.icirr.org
The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets, to be used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, and policymakers. 🔗 deportationdata.org/index.html
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"Destroy or maintain or rebuild institutions" is the "deconstruction of the administrative state" of Project 2025. Again, WHY have we stopped talking about Project 2025 ?? And WHY have WE stopped insisting that our elected Dems & media report in terms of the regime's progress on Project 2025?
The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets, to be used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, and policymakers. 🔗 deportationdata.org/index.html
‘What are they hiding?’: Four Illinois Democrats were denied entry into the Broadview ICE facility for an unannounced oversight visit. Democratic members of Congress who have been denied entry to ICE facilities have filed a federal lawsuit against the regime 🔗 archive.fo/vv3jd
Organized Communities Against Deportations 🔗 www.organizedcommunities.org
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 🔗 www.icirr.org
Full article without the paywall is here: ‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Illinois ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete 🔗 archive.fo/2025.09.02-1...
Illinois AG Kwame Raoul RE: reports of conditions at Broadview ICE "hold facility" (Chicago area): "While disturbing, are consistent with the deplorable conditions we have seen at federal ICE facilities around the nation." Average hold in Broadview regularly exceeds ICE's own rule of 12 hours max.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Hundreds of labor groups and community activists took to the streets across the country Monday for mass Labor Day protests, including several demonstrations in Florida — with a notable showing in Palm Beach Gardens.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Labor Day St. Petersburg, Florida Unite + Rise formed by humans
Fort Myers, Florida Visibility Brigade joined May Day Strong on Labor Day to put Workers Over Billionaires. #Resist #MayDayStrong #WorkersOverBillionaires #VisibilityBrigade #BackboneCampaign #LaborDay #Indivisible #50501
Here is my look at this weekend: www.lawdork.com/p/this-weeke...
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
"To come here and do something like this, and to be threatened with something so extreme as a felony charge for protesting and showing love to your fellow human, it’s just insane in my opinion," said Suarez in an interview with local news outlet. ---- complete thread🧵👇🏽
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
L.A. Cops, with the Mayor's full support and approval
Me too, basically. There's some very important reasons why I don't like a certain Dem who's obviously running—while goal #1 has to be to oust maga and Project 2025 from power. And that Dem who's obviously running... I'm ALSO not for him because I really don't think he's a winner for the Dems.
Sep 1, 2025 According to at least 3 detainees who spoke with Miami's Spanish- language channel Noticias 23, guards at ICE detention camp in The Everglades reportedly used tear gas and physical force during a "disturbance." A fire alarm was sounding continuously, and a helicopter circled overhead.
Wes Moore, who they interviewed beforehand and whose comments Kasich criticized, has the right idea. He basically said: Nope, not interested—and back the F off, fascist, you got no business in my state.
OMG, did you see former Ohio Governor John Kasich on MSNBC yesterday? What a load of malarkey! Why would any governor "reach out" to the fascist authoritarian who's currently occupying our WH to have a polite conversation and ask for his help with crime, WHICH IS NOT A PROBLEM ??
(Btw... the other two Democrats they listed aren't on my list either.)
I mean, you do NOT burnish your own credentials by cooperating and politely "working across the aisle" with fascist authoritarians. Nope. That's facilitating their fascist agenda—worse than just political folly that loses elections.
I don't really care if she's running for prez, my point is that ALL of the Democrats need to stop showing deference to this authoritarian criminal and thereby burnishing his image and credibility—whether they're running for prez or not.
I don't really care if she's running for prez, my point is that ALL of the Democrats need to stop showing deference to this authoritarian criminal and thereby burnishing his image and credibility—whether they're running for prez or not.
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They did not count on that dastardly judge having staff brave enough to wake her at 2am or on her being willing to get out of bed to stop children from being kidnapped. In fairness, if you work for Trump this is probably a general misconception you have about other human beings.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
This will sound unduly credulous to some, but I would guess there are major outlets working on stories right now that will take some intense vetting before they can be published.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Hmm... 🧐 Must be a typo in the article. I think Democratic "strategist" Joel Payne really meant to say, "It feels like she’s focused on burnishing HIS (not her) credentials in Michigan. And she’s very much taken a different view on how to deal with Trump and Republicans in this era."
It’s just so transparently fake, too? I follow British politics more than the average American but even from my non-expert external opinion the stench of inauthentic desperation is palpable.
Unions are not that quiet. The question in the headline should be: Why has the NYT been choosing to not amplify their voices in their coverage?
ALL Republicans have signed onto Project 2025 because it’s what they’ve been threatening US with since 1970! Right after Johnson instituted the social safety net that R’s always despised and wanted to do away with since it began.
Yep. ‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For today's "One First," I wrote about Friday's circuit-court rulings in the tariffs and Venezuelan TPS cases, and the procedural reasons why they're likely to be just the first of a slew of cases about the *merits* of Trump policies that #SCOTUS will have to address during the October 2025 Term:
Was disgusted with MSNBC yesterday in an interview with Kat Abughazaleh when they kept stressing that "The majority of Americans think crime in big cities is out of control... how should Democrats respond?" How's this? STOP repeating this false meme—I doubt it's even true the majority believe it.
There's absolutely a crime wave in America — and Trump is leading it www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
JFC, SMH. That this language is even in the record is disgusting. Scalia intentionally meant to be provocative and divisive: "If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag." Ack! 🤬 That's it, I'm burning a flag, this country SUCKS.
Agree. @aaup.org is on the front lines fighting for higher education, academic freedom, and solidarity among academic workers, students, and our surrounding communities. Join up!
It is quite frightening but surrender is a far scarier outcome in my mind.
#TransRights
#Covid #CovidVaccine #Antivaxx #AntiScience
Putin pulled a reverse UNO on the US w/o ever firing a bullet in under 50 yrs by using KGB tactics. Malcom Nance explains the grooming of Trump by Putin from an intelligence perspective from the late 70’s until now. youtu.be/1dOYuPWFUAc?...
I was going to say what is wrong with this Admin, but we were warned. President Biden warned us. Kamala Harris warned us. Malcom Nance wrote the book THEY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS. The horrors he described, made me feel sick, but were a true prediction 6 months into 2025. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
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Reminds me of Doctor King's warning on the white moderate. They're fine with civil rights but...not today. As long as there's the slightest discomfort the they are just opposed to things moving too fast or too disruptively.
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I’ve seen a lot of cishet allies who are also confused by all the prominent Dem voices suddenly acting like having trans rights means we can’t also have vaccines and schools and national parks, and that’s because some of the “why” is happening at a pitch only queer and trans people can hear
This govt is evil. Deporting 7 & 10-year-olds, some orphans. In the dead of night, the Trump admin tried to deport more than 600 Guatemalan children. Guest: Efrén Olivares, Vice President of Litigation at the National Immigration Law Center, whose team stopped the action. 📺 youtu.be/Pw2v3IYOaGw?...
From the resignation letter of Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH Again, I am certain that I know who is the source, and who is directing RFK's rhetoric and actions—And again, I ask, why have we stopped talking about that source? 👉🏼Project 2025, Section 14 (plan for HHS), authored by Roger Severino.
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🧵*8/31/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. LET'S GOOOOOOOO 💪 * Know how I know we're going to win? Because among us are people like Youman Wilder
It is going to take the mayors refusing to cooperate. You can't negotiate with fascists. They'll just find another reason to cut that funding later. At the least, there's no reason it needed to be a dark-of-night operation with local cops' assistance.
baynews9.com/fl/tampa/new...
Imagine being this guy, the mayor of St. Pete, who is ultimately responsible for the cops' actions. 🔗 baynews9.com/fl/tampa/new...
NEW: Jeanine Pirro and the Trump DOJ suffered MASSIVE embarrassment this past week as they keep failing to get federal grand juries to indict dissidents. Andy McCabe and I discuss on today's UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
FLAGLER 50501 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES Stop the Billionaire Takeover LABOR DAY 2025 Monday, Sept. 1 Bridge Brigade I-95 Exit 289 Palm Coast Pkwy Overpass 5:30-6:30PM
#Miami LABOR DAY RALLY WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES 09.01.2025 11AM-2PM TORCH OF FRIENDSHIP 301 Biscayne Blvd Miami, Florida
Washington Rep. Emily Randall: "Disgusting. For the first time––not even my first unannounced visit––we were denied entry. I cited the statute multiple times to make sure that they understood they were breaking the law, and they said, ‘Well, your previous visits have not been on a weekend.’"
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Labor Day Rally MIA Terminal E 3:30 – 5:30pm EDT Hosted by FL Decides Healthcare JOIN US! at Miami International Airport to launch UNITE HERE's Contract Fight with 10 employers at MIA. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
We Are Miami Rally Monday, September 1 3:30 – 4:30pm EDT Hosted by UNITE HERE Local 355 Miami International Airport 2100 NW 42nd Ave Terminal E Miami, Florida mobilize.us/s/Gph9oD
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
One of the many reasons I ❤️ #Miami Florida is home to many species of introduced anole lizards, but the Green Anole is our only native species.
This treasonous sack of shit has no authority to regulate elections! He will do everything he can to snuff out voices though. See you in court!
The CDC has a new COO, Lynda Chapman. She has no relevant experience for the role—but much more important: She's a Trumper and has a website where she sells photos of trump and Georgia Repubs, including one of the 19 who were indicted in connection with the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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From the resignation letter of Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH Again, I am certain that I know who is the source, and who is directing RFK's rhetoric and actions—And again, I ask, why have we stopped talking about that source? 👉🏼Project 2025, Section 14 (plan for HHS), authored by Roger Severino.
In erasing the memorial for the pulse nighclub, DeSantis isn't just saying queer people shouldn't be memorialized. He's saying his administration supports the murder of queer people. 1