Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
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Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.
This strike is outright murder even if you accept all the legal arguments the Obama admin made in support of its drone strikes, which you shouldn’t. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Anyway, this is just testing the waters, so to speak. Trumpists want violence. Trumpists want to kill many categories of people; alleged drug smugglers are just one. They're going to start killing more.
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
I think it’s bad that every single media outlet is on its way to being an explicit right wing propaganda machine
🚨 The Trump admin is moving to de-legalize more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who have been here for at LEAST four years. The vast majority entered before Biden took office (often on tourist visas) and were previously granted deportation protections by Trump himself.
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
once again, when pressed on where trump gets the authority to take an action, vance’s argument is, essentially, that trump is sovereign
I guarantee they're coming for contraceptives next. It'll take some time, given how unpopular it will be with even the average MAGA dipshit. But it's coming.
DoD institutionally wouldn't have communicated the orders without someone doing some sort of legal analysis about authorities, and the longer they keep up this "we did it because we can nyah nyah nyah" the more likely it is that leaks
Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
Abuse like Epstein's proceeds w/ the premise that the victims are voiceless or can be shamed, intimidated, threatened, or discredited so iif they do try to speak up. Today they spoke up and were heard on national media. May their power continue, may accountability come for all the perpetrators.
Double hand shiver is an excellent skill
Well bitch Democratic primary voters disagree
among other weird things (the sheer # of no true bills from dc grand juries, plus the fact that judges are ordering prosecutors to disclose those refusals to defendants, which I'd never heard of before) ... I have never seen a prosecutor attack a grand jury like this www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Seems important that there is and I am certain will be no proof of any of this from the us government.Look a boat we can easily blow up for boner points and away we go.
More of this.
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
"Vaccine skeptics" is propaganda. The press needs to stop using the phrase. Kennedy is hiring liars and scammers, not skeptics. All scientists are skeptics. That's what science is. And we should be skeptical of vaccines until they are proven to be effective. Again, that's science.
I was skeptical but a fan now and Will using the fact that Platner worked for a military contractor as proof of anything is silly af
Boners is the goal
So despite no Authorization for Use of Military Force and no possible invocation of the War Powers Act, the U.S. military is now going to be drone striking people alleged to be committing a crime? Again, on what legal authority?
This is exactly why AI is being pushed. You can blame it for real shit and vice versa. Blur the lines of reality and purge the media of real reporters and this is like fascism 101 shit
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Folks love to say Congress has been broken for a long time, and they're not wrong, but this is still a total collapse in the institution compared with trump I or any other period in US history
Justice Jackson slated for Portland visit in 2026 northpeninsulareview.com/justice-jack... #USSC #KetanjiBrownJackson
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Like this is just not acceptable, sorry
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
we are in a lawless, fascist uprising with multiple constitutional crises taking place simultaneously and this motherfucker is STILL talking about finding common ground and cooperating
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.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Dead man walking redux
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
The false, explicitly bigoted “great replacement” conspiracy theory has inspired some of the biggest terrorist attacks in recent years, including in Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas. Transnational white nationalism—oxymoronic, yes, but nevertheless real—is a top terrorist threat today.
Courts still matter.
🎁 link all states are always looking for volunteers at food banks and org like Meals on Wheels or you can easily donate money monthly.The need is greater than ever.
My hummingbirds in the morning light 🪶
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
Rose of the day .. per usual I do love my multi color girlies #roses #gardening
deeply infuriating to see the extent to which they are doing the opposite of the successful authoritarian consolidation playbook and having remarkable success anyway
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Season starts in 61 days ✊
If it's like my house your wife warns you before movies .. "it's just a movie" lol
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Feel like the rag tag seams make it more credible not less but also my kids go into hysteria when I wear my ratty jorts
Making it yourself much like your own jorts ... slightly less egregious lol
Same lol
Short sleeve hoodies ..blasphemy
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
More money for many of societies problems and not for making cops look and act like an occupying army.
That is an issue I agree and special non police units are doing that in some cities.
Not sure it's the root but it's an enormous factor for sure and agree more cops is not the answer. Spend the money in many other places.
Agree traffic and Most neighborhood complaints and property crimes.Non violent mental health checks which many cities have been doing.
Certainly some calls but more money spent on housing,mental health and drug rehab would be a better argument.Most 911 calls you don't know what is really going on until you get there.Non emergency calls don't need police IE take burglary report.
You don't know until you get there
I didn't say anything about get rid of police so not sure if that was for me. I fully support more money for lots of things and less for police.
I catch you are just wrong in the case of DV. Other calls perhaps.
Fire and EMS call for police if people they are dealing with get even a little unruly
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
all these media asking democrats 'but crime seems to be down in DC isn't that good' ARMED MILITARY ON THE STREETS IS NEVER FUCKING GOOD
The modern American reaction to voter intimidation and suppression has been a loud “fuck you,” manifesting in turnout and patience. And the next one’s going to be a doozy. Everyone who says it’s all over is wrong. Whether or not they realize, helping the intimidation. Not easy, but far from over.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Beautiful Autumn By David Zinn! (8 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2025/08/29/b...
“…I 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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
A group of Indigenous teenagers became the first people in 100 years to paddle all 310 miles of the newly undammed Klamath River. “Freeing the river means freeing our people.” See more photos → www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202... 📸: @brontewittpenn.bsky.social / S.F. Chronicle
“I don’t end friendships over politics” is as often as not a smug proclamation that you know you’re protected no matter who holds power
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
Hi there. It's me again, the doofus who just said I'm not a political commentator and just wants to talk about videosgame and horror movies, I'm here to talk to you about a politic. If you don't want homeless people? Home them. Destroying their belongings and displacing them only makes it worse.
Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”
Any elected Dem who expresses anything more sympathetic than “eat shit in hell you fascist fuck” should be treated with suspicion. If they’re worried about a bad reaction they can stay silent or deflect and talk about working families and the economy or something like they always do on tough issues