This Wednesday..... let the truth come out....
This Wednesday..... let the truth come out....
I did not read this when it was originally published but @qjurecic.bsky.social posted it again recently and man oh man does it basically explain every behavior on the right since Trump walked down that elevator www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bull...
We'd go all the way back to the US tariff policy of... 2024. LOL. share.google/Wl2y9fzDRdkA...
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*âwith a 5th still due this morningâto prove it complied. (âPresumption of regularityâ is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege
the sun would no longer rise without tariffs
... âThat is especially so where there is evidence not only that DOJ attys understood the order at the time but that a high-ranking DOJ official [i.e., then-ADAG Emil Bove] had also indicated in advance that DOJ might ignore a court order" [i.e. say âfuck youâ to courts]. ... 4/5
On Thurs (while I was on vacation), @aclu.org sought full DC Circuit review of the splintered panel decision that would vacate Judge Boasbergâs order finding probable cause to believe DOJ attys committed criminal contempt in the JGG case. ... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/5
Thank you.
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Liberals: âWe could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; âthoughts and prayersâ isnât enough.â Republicans: âOutrage! Disgrace! Theyâre attacking prayer.â Thereâs no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
Because the GOP has been unconstitutionally enmeshed with the church for nearly 50 years. No one's religious beliefs are allowed to inform our laws or government. The Separation of Church and State is a foundational principle of our Constitution for a reason.
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
I asked Andrew Bates, Bidenâs deputy press secretary what he thought about the mediaâs obsession with Bidenâs age and health while it ignores Trumpâs visible health troubles. Hereâs what he said
If you donât know about Heather Honey, you should. Sheâs a national embarrassment, virulent election denier and now in charge of election policies for the US government. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
ââŠI am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.â My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Union representing CDC employees re: ousted leader Dr Susan Monarez: âWe commend her, not just for doing the right thing, but for doing the hard thing by standing against disinformation. She chose science over politics. This is the leader that CDC needs & our nation deservesâ
Fascism centralizes power through nationalism, fear, and control: suppressing rights, media, and labor, elevating the military, fusing religion with state, and maintaining control via corruption, propaganda, and fake elections.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jrâs attack on the agencyâs science base. (đ„ AP)
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Would Trump have moved in that direction eventually regardless? Almost certainly. Did the way media covered D.C. make it easier? Absolutely.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying
In a significant policy shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law.
Five years ago, YouTube suspended MAGA propaganda outlet OAN, saying it was not an âauthoritativeâ source of information. But today it celebrated a carriage deal beaming the network into millions of homes on YouTube TV. The timing is no coincidence, via @status.news www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Tonightâs dumb napkin cartoonâŠ
BREAKING: Judge Xinis issues order barring Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia âuntil further order of the Court.â The admin stated earlier that it would not deport him during this habeas consideration. Also per todayâs order, the habeas hearing is set for Oct. 6.
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: âWe are not going to normalize this despot and his wife⊠if this happens, iâm gone, and so is half my team.â www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
For more on the international parallels between Trump and other authoritarian regimes I recommend subscribing to @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's Lucid. This from today's newsletter: lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
Authoritarian-style propaganda (images via Gemini)
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesâassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceâthey can be prosecuted.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnât write it
Trump Mobile social media account encouraged followers to place their Trump Phone preorder, promising âthe wait is almost over.â This was joined by an image that looks nothing like the one of the T1 phone currently on Trump Mobile website. Instead looks rather suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25
One notable difference, though: the *firing of artillery shells nearby* as a way to convince civilians to evacuate was never one of the CHMC practices the IDF toutedâand itâs really something else that they acknowledge it as one of the rebranded PRUâs!
ROGAN: âYeah, he didnât have an answer.â Joe Rogan & Dave Smith discuss how Trump couldnât explain how the election was stolen from him when he was on Roganâs podcast. (Because it wasnât)
A complaint by Social Security Administration chief data officer Charles Borges alleges that the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers to a high-risk server in June. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
âRussian victory is inevitable, so save yourself some pain and surrender nowâ has been the Russian propaganda lineâand a repeated Trump, Vance, Musk, etc. talking pointâfor 3.5 years now, yes. Weirdly, Russiaâs unbeatable battlefield prowess hasnât shown up on the battlefield.
đ§”Important Statistical Reminder: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.
It's been widely noted that Trump seems newly emboldened on many fronts. But another thing that makes this moment so ominous is that his accomplices at very senior levels *also* seem emboldened. Many of them seem arrogantly certain of never facing accountability. newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Worth reading this www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Home Depot chic polyurethane: www.homedepot.com/b/N-5yc1v/Nt...
Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
HAPPENING NOW: At 2:00 p.m. ET, Judge Paula Xinis is set to hold a telephone conference regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's newly-filed lawsuit challenging his removal to Uganda. Abrego was detained by ICE earlier today. I plan to live-post the hearing for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along âŹïžđ§”
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
Read Civil Discourse, my newsletter on Substack, and be prepared for the coming week. Knowledge is an important part of our power. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
For decades, Republicans screamed that the âbig, badâ government was coming for you. Now, it actually is, but theyâre the ones in charge.
holy shit
âYou do NOT need to tell the President what to doâ â Ukraine fires back as Hungary slams Zelensky over the Druzhba pipeline strikes. www.kyivpost.com/post/58893
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Europeans need to understand that appeasing Trump for short-term benefits wonât resolve long-term challenges. We'll gain far more by standing firm instead of giving in
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks â and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
Trump: After we do this, we will go to another location and make it safe too. Chicago is a mess. That will probably be our next one after this. They are screaming for us to come. African American ladies, beautiful ladies are saying "Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please."
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
Abregoâs lawyers say the coordination between DOJ and DHS to exert leverage over the plea negotiations is proof of a vindictive motive warranting dismissal of the criminal case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garciaâs lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica â and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesnât. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sums it up nicely
Boltonâs home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towardsâŠdespotism. Does anyone think theyâre doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.
Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Boltonâs house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.
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Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into âAlligator Alcatrazâ and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the âtough on crimeâ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison âor elseâ?
BREAKING â Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP âas they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.â Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:
Air Force offer is in response to same directive as this:
Quote from Allison Floyd (2020). Please attribute it going forward. Thank you! x.com/AllisonRFloy...
Immigration arrests of people with a past violent criminal conviction increased to 1,900 in June from 1,100 in December. At the same time, arrests overall tripled to more than 28,000 and arrests of people with no past conviction or charges increased by almost 20 times www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Thank you for the gift article. So many posters do not link to a gift article in their posts. Well done!
Thank you for the gift article. So many posters do not link the free article in their posts. Well done!
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
What problem does the U.S. government solve by buying Intel stock? None. It just moves stock certificates from one safe to another. But it does create a new problem: the White House as stock-picker in chief.
Infuriating storyâthere actually WAS research on chemical exposures that seem to increase autism rates, but Trump/RFK Jr are halting the research, firing the scientists, and lifting restrictions on the chemicals, while blocking access to vaccines that prevent other diseases and DONâT increase autism
"Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL," Jesse Watters texted Greg Gutfeld in December 2020, according to recently unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case against Fox News. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This Bible was sitting in an unoccupied grand jury room in a courthouse. It seemed to be a normal King James Bible, but with the judicial system endorsement on the front. Possibly for swearing in witnesses?
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationâs failures.
The federal officer who arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention center in May suggested that he was following the direction of the DOJ's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, according to bodycam footage.
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
A few months ago, there's a decent chance federal law enforcement would have viewed agents ripping down a sign because they didn't like its message as misconduct. Now the government - and the White House - is tweeting its approval.
in crazed early morning screed, the president announces "I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while weâre at it, Highly âInaccurate,â Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES"
âPeople are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin!â
Iâm kind of speechless with this one. I canât imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesnât count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
Trump: "If it's bad, if it's something I don't see a future in â I'm gone, I'll leave. I don't have to do a press conference, I'll just say 'Not going to be a deal, I'm out of here' and I go back to the United States." Trump is in Alaska, which is in the United States.
Trump had threatened Putin with âvery severe consequencesâ if he did not stop his attacks on Ukraine, and on the flight to Alaska he said, âI won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire.â Well, there was no ceasefire â but also no consequences. wapo.st/4fE9Cfj
I would put that AG Bondi tweet front and center in a petition for rehearing en banc.