UPDATE: An excruciatingly long ICE Air flight kept individuals on board shackled for roughly 50 hours. In total, the flight made 6 deportation stops, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
UPDATE: An excruciatingly long ICE Air flight kept individuals on board shackled for roughly 50 hours. In total, the flight made 6 deportation stops, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
EXCLUSIVE: State Rep. James Talarico will jump into the Texas Senate race.
There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
Does he believe the idiot things he says and does?
BEHOLD! 'Tis CURTIS YARVIN, thought leader (so called) of the Dark Enlightenment! THIS mom jeans'd weirdo is who Peter Thiel and JD Vance and by extension Trump think has all the best ideas. #FuckYarvin h/t @5gw.bsky.social
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
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Opus Dei sets sights on Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"Bluesky shows higher level of content originality in scholarly discourse, perhaps due to a higher proportion of academic users. X tends to favor simple retweets. This positions Bluesky as a richer environment for substantive science communication."🧪 True for our study www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trump always believes his base will either forget what he said, forget what he did, or simply accept his psychopathy. This time he's wrong.
De Georgiou: And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing. You have a choice: stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.
BOLLING: Trump can prove it's a hoax by releasing it. Let us decide if it's a hoax or not. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: It's not a hoax. BOLLING: You gotta give MAGA this.
BREAKING: A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding, calling the antisemitism excuse "a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🧊🧵✈️ WED 3 SEP 2025 – PART 2 🙏 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE: Activists in New Hampshire are greeting almost every ICE Air flight that goes through Portsmouth ✊ 👉 Want to know when these flights are coming to your city? Send me a DM or hit the Signal or Proton mail in my profile. bsky.app/profile/grou...
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace. Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.
Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants. This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.
HUGE. The 5th Circuit joins many other federal courts in holding that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful. The judges emphasize that the law is fundamentally about *war* and about military actions; not illegal immigration or drug trafficking.
Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide, and six in 10 oppose further military aid, polls suggest. So what if the US stopped supporting Israel tomorrow? aje.io/gwsb0l
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” Gov. JB Pritzker
I thought the number was a million gazillion. America has a clown in the White House. And he’s not a funny clown.
Judge Rules Trump's Deployment Of Military To LA Is Illegal; Orders Him To STOP! youtu.be/BRpDHOJd_ng?...
BREAKING: Appeals court REJECTS Trump’s attempt to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. The judges ruled “the government has no likelihood of success on appeal,” representing a major setback for Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
“In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act,”
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Excellent analysis of the differing approaches by Newsom and Pritzker, reaching different audiences in different ways: “This is about confronting Trump in a way that undercuts his basis of power, even while embarrassing the press of all stripes to stop normalizing Trump’s authoritarianism”
Breyer suggests that the Ninth set a standard such that Trump could deploy ICE and use resistance to ICE as his justification to deploy the Guard. Wonder where he came up with that scenario? 🤔
Never forget that 75 million voters did not vote for Trump (vs the 77.3 million who did). It is a deathly narrow, entirely surmountable margin. There are more than 340 million people in the U.S. and, as of the 2024 presidential election, 173.85 million were registered to vote.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Trump sending National Guard and Marines is illegal.
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
BTW y'all if you know or work with Russ Vought, you should contact my buddy @andykroll.bsky.social....
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Charles Breyer doing something interesting w/Trump v. US here. Not that it'll work, but it gives SCOTUS an out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![First, “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 177 (1803). Without question this principle applies to cases, like this one, where the Executive is accused of overstepping bounds set out by the Legislature. “If the President claims authority to act but in fact exercises mere ‘individual will’ and ‘authority without law,’ the courts may say so.” Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 608 (2024) (citation omitted).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreigw7unwx3hl5xpacc7oatksql53mrgbte6g7yyzt2cmd33nnpe5x4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
1,000+ "Workers Over Billionaires" Protests: Images From All 50 States and DC
again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.
For those asking why Judge Breyer stayed the ruling, the answer is because, if he didn't, someone else (the Ninth Circuit or #SCOTUS) would have, at least temporarily. I know it's frustrating, but the stay is designed to avoid provoking either a less-sympathetic Ninth Circuit panel or the justices.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Just in: Trump to make announcement at 2 pm Tuesday, per WH
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
To the white guy that called me slurs over and over. You are about to get kicked out of the United States Navy. Actions have consequences.
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
I had my New York Times op-ed today, but I'm also all over this story about Donald Trump, the worst unionbuster in American history. Trump makes Jay Gould look like Walter Reuther. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
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Said or announced? Where is the audio?
Today in Politics, Bulletin 197. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Check out this thread about evidence of his deciming health twitter-thread.com/t/1962233429... bsky.app/profile/araf...
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Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
He fell.
Do not give them the benefit of doubt. They have not earned it They do not deserve it.
It wasn’t until 1938—more than a half century after the Haymarket Riot and the national strikes for eight-hour workdays—when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which limited the workweek to 44 hours, and then amended the law two years later to 40 hours.
Studying the John Tanton racist, neo Nazi anti immigration network in 2004 tipped me off to Leonard Leo’s Opus Dei Catholic web in DC in 2009. Lots of front groups, often at same address, staffed and funded by the same secret central figure. One goal. An all white or Catholic Taliban USA.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Dobbs was announced, 6/24/22. More than a dozen reporters covering Dobbs & Supreme Court protestors told me they'd never heard of Leonard Leo. Aug 24, 2025 I did archive searches at NYT, WaPo and Google news. Could not find a single mention of Leo in stories the day after Dobbs was announced.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
"Donald Trump is a dictator – and we are further along the road of authoritarianism than people want to admit." Marc Elias
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
🧊🚨✈️ CHILD TRAFFICKING⁉️ As a court hearing about a plan to imminently deport 600 unaccompanied minors to Guatemala gets underway, we can see at least three ICE Air planes headed south *right now* from El Paso, Dallas, and Alexandria LA 👀 Track them here: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a83f98,...
Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin
Most damning of all, he claims, are the recordings: audio and video documentation of sexual crimes against minors and acts of violence against women."
Perhaps Putin is ready to start slowly releasing the kompromat triggering aTrump resignation for health reasons to keep the dirt under wraps: From a friend: "Financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name.
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Why is our government deporting children? They are *children*. Are we going to say these are hardened criminals who threaten national security, ffs?
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
VIDEO: Trump is throwing the Constitution out the window, and Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling him out. Rep. Raskin joined Marc Elias to discuss restoring American democracy, the administration’s overreach into elections and Trump’s desire to be a dictator. youtu.be/YDLIgNzb5FM
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. They’ve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trump’s insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their rise…and our subsequent downfall.
Here’s what we are barreling towards: India and China sign massive trade agreements (coz of Trump), buoyed by Russian and Iranian oil. New markets and alliances open up in the East, all with the US on the outside and without the sway they once had. This is the price of America First.
when a judge gets woken up at two in the morning to deal with your bullshit it is generally advisable to stop producing new bullshit such that they can get some sleep at some point the next day
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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It won't matter if Putin dies. Leonard Leo (tied directly to Erik Prince & wealthy, mercenary, elite benefactors) publicly said in podcast 1/2025 that Leo's role in 47 Trump Admin. is to take Project 2025 & far-rt goals and "implement, Worldwide." So, plenty of like-minded to take Putin's place.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
And the Guard is picking up trash... park service work!
Thanks, everyone! Woman-run. Veteran-owned. No bullshit. Always free. Muellershewrote.com
“.. The Oval Office photos don’t resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trump’s health the way it treated Biden’s, makeup and memos will remain the White House’s first—and last—line of defense.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Trump's tariffs are, quite literally, taxation without representation. Eff that.