there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
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there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
the basic argument of these guys is that lincoln was wrong, douglass was wrong, jefferson was wrong.
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
This is the kind of stuff to show to your MAGA friends or family who are Hispanic, Native American, or black. Republicans literally exclude you from "American."
So, uh, Texas might be invading Illinois?
Fairly straight ethnonationalism as a rebuke to the modern idea of a multi-ethnic nation of immigrants. It sounds quite a lot like early 20th century nationalism as well.
In Trump's first term, A.G. Sessions and A.G. Barr both used their power as Attorney General to set new restrictions on asylum for primarily Central American asylum seekers. A.G Garland reversed both of those decisions. Now A.G. Bondi has reinstated both of them.
đ¨NEW: AG Bondi uses her authority as AG to reinstate two precedent decisions from Trump's first term (Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A-) that aim to end asylum for victims of domestic violence from countries unwilling or unable to protect them, and asylum for people targeted for family ties.
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide if citizens can still enforce the Voting Rights Act, after a federal appeals court ruled that only the government â not private citizens â can sue to enforce protections against racial discrimination in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
If itâs 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 thatâd clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesnât 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.
Remigration is explicitly about ethnic cleansing. Itâs about mass deportations of lawfully present immigrants â and for many who use the term, their descendants as well. That itâs not a common term in right-wing discourse is bleak, bleak stuff indeed.
The Trump admin dumped half a dozen men with serious criminal records in the Kingdom of Eswatini, where they are being jailed indefinitely despite all having finished serving criminal sentences in the United States. Itâs a disturbing situation.
Millett and Pillard are with the majority, citing directly binding Supreme Court precedent. Rao dissents, because the SCOTUS majority has stayed non-FTC removal injunctions on the shadow docket. Order and dissent: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
I have issuesâsignificant issuesâwith Bowser's actions during this, but 90% of what happened today is about the background. 1. This is pretty clearly an effort to minimize the chances of Trump seeking to extend the emergency. 2. Federal law enforcement â as opposed to the troops â are always here.
Two things can be â and are â true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
âThe master deal maker, in another of his âwhim and spiteâ transactional decision-making exercises, managed to alienate India to the point where it is moving closer to its traditional enemy, China, and cozying up to Russia, as a clear slap in the face to the United States.â Great read by C. Ray!
I mean, great, but they gotta pit their money where their mouth is. So far they have shown no spine.
#WolffBites: Wall Street Journal (WSJ) says Trump is wrong: US economy is not in great shape. New poll finds nearly 70% believe the "American dream" is no longer (or never was) available to them. www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
I feel like in the 1980âs/90âs this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces 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.
The US military's own standards for these situations are frustratingly vague due to the Standing Rules of Engagement / Use of Force being partially classified. See Enclosure H here: www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/D...
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
New: Former state Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, a Collin County Republican who authored Texasâ sweeping 2013 abortion law has died, according to social media posts from several lawmakers. She was 68.
Even if this were not a violation of the separation of church and state, I would have a problem with this. Not only does it discriminate against other religions, it discriminates against other Christians. Iâm Catholic. We do not pray the Our Father as translated in the King James Bible.
This occured to me, too. This isn't just endorsing a Christian practice - it's endorsing one that specifically excludes traditional Catholic methods of worship.
Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday encouraged students to practice the Lordâs Prayer as relayed in the King James Version of the Bible, marking the latest instance of a Texas public official endorsing Christianity over other faiths.
That these platforms now feel comfortable creating financial incentives around the death of the same president whose deregulatory agenda enabled their rise represents a dark irony of Trumpâs dismantling of regulatory oversight.
Newsletter: President Trumpâs deregulatory agenda emboldened prediction markets to push boundaries around permitted event contracts. Now sites advised by his son are allowing bets on his death. www.citationneeded.news/trump-death-...
Pritzker willingly appearing w Johnson... he's serious
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urges Chicagoans to protest peacefully. "Do not take the bait," Raoul says.
Mayor Brandon Johnson: The the president is the last person who cares about violence on Chicago's South and West sides. "There is too much violence in Chicago not because we have too many immigrants but because we have too many guns."
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Real evil shit.
DOJ: Google paid distributors for default placement, this entrenched the monopoly. Judge (verdict): Yes, this was illegal conduct. DOJ: So as a remedy, you must end the paying of distributors for default placement Judge (remedy): "Google will be permitted to pay distributors for default placement."
Judge Mehta on the proposed Chrome divestiture: 1-Chrome definitely contributes to Google's search monopoly 2-It's not even as radical as the Microsoft proposed remedy 3-It would hardly break up the company 4-But let's not do it
The Google monopolization remedy is out and it looks like the judge imposed next to nothing as a penalty. Big disappointment. Trump doesn't even have to intervene and bail Google out. Here is the verdict: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dsf41...
he's absolutely obsessed with chicago. literally begging pritzker to call him and invite him to illinois.
i forgot how bad it is for the soul to listen to this dumpster speak.
Since 2020 I've made a point of avoiding hearing him directly talk to help maintain what little peace I can hold on to.
TRUMP: "DC is a safe zone. we have no crime. you can walk down the street. you're not gonna be shot...the restaurants are booming, this took place in 12 days. " he says "we took 1,600 people out" and calls them "hardcore criminals" with zero evidence.
trump is talking about the number of people killed by gun violence in chicago right after saying guns aren't a problem in america.
TRUMP: we need to study the idea of letting teachers who are veterans carry weapons in schools
Reporter: there's a school shooting problem in america Trump: sure but there are thousands of schools where there are no shootings
trump just said part of the reason he's moving the space force HQ from colorado to alabama because colorado allows mail-in voting.
it's starting now www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Dn...
All of this feels like a huge cashout where they're recruiting their friends to cash out with them. Statsig also raised at a $1.1bn valuation in May, so this is a flat/all-stock acquisition. Wonder if that $1.1bn gets cashed in in the $8bn stock oAI sale? www.geekwire.com/2025/statsig...
who the hell is this guy? where did he come from? $1.1bn in STOCK for his company? My guess is that this is Fidji Simo hiring her old Facebook friends (she was head of product, Vijave Raji was head of entertainment/gaming, two of FB's least-successful parts).
"President starts low-level conflict by trying to get Nobel Peace Prize" is the funniest story going, can't get enough
A former leader at the CDC said that HHS Secretary Kennedy hasn't received briefings related to infectious diseases.
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
An officer briefly became the face of Trumpâs brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump. @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found heâs a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick OâHanlon who says he was just doing his job. Our report:
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Welcome back from authoritarian August, Democrats in Congress. Do you know that you've been made irrelevant? Are you going to use the power you have to do something about it? From me... prospect.org/politics/202...
Despite explosive growth turning Tarrant into a racially diverse swing county, two new political maps will leave it with whiter, more Republican representation.
1 in 10 Americans are union members, and 1 in 16 private-sector workers. This is near a record low. But 1 in 6 Californians are union members, one of the highest rates in the country. Our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social explain how this happened: prospect.org/justice/unio...
lol the Atlantic rules
AND NOBODY WILL ASK HIM SHIT! In contrast to Mamdani constantly being asked about a thing *he never even said*!
Also, don't trust people who say being against fascism is bad for business. Unless you're doing some weird crypto ponzi scheme, or trying to get a government contract to blow up a border tent, dissent great for business! The Onion is living proof. People flock to you! www.wired.com/story/uncann...
I talked to Wired for A LONG time about how The Onion works now and also alluded to some very stupid, very fun things coming very soon. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Yesterday, a bunch of Republican elected officials posted about celebrating Labor Day. Today theyâre back at work attacking unions on behalf of their billionaire bosses. We have to make sure every working person knows the truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I recognize that this might not go over well among some folks here, but I worry about the reaction people had last week to the story of a guy who used ChatGPT as part of his suicide plans. The rush to blame the tech only leads to bad places, as we're already seeing.
i cannot wait to return to this specific bit of this story
"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!
The currently roughly 680-690 immigration judges are hearing cases every day, but since there are 3.5 million cases in the backlog it would take years to go through all of them. As for what the 600 military lawyers are doing right now, who knows? Other jobs. And they have no training for this.
Many former JAGs serve as immigration judges today, having gone through a competitive hiring process. JAGs are often good lawyers, so I am not of the belief that they will all become rubber stampers. But the command pressure to deny will undoubtedly be *enormous.*
The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.
NEW: Trump family has now made $5 billion off its corrupt crypto deals. Your family gets higher energy prices and cuts to health care. His family gets billions. Corruption, plain and simple. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Trump promised he'd lower prices drastically. Yet, thanks to his tariff taxes, whether you buy a cup of coffee, a new car, or almost any item at the grocery store, prices are rising. Republicans' allegiance is to their billionaire buddies, not the average American family.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of representatives is collecting signatures to force the release of Epstein-related files.
One of the wild things is the level of condescension you'll get from "tech experts" who will say "wrong answers from Google is good, actually". I would submit that anyone who doesn't understand why Google suddenly getting basic questions wrong, that it used to get right, is bad... may be off track.
Just thinking back to how there was a concerted effort in 2024 to paint Trump as the "anti-war candidate" and now he may rename the DoD to the Department of War.
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendantsâ orders and contrary to Congressâs explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Essentially, Breyer bars the Trump administration from using troops illegally in California. The ruling is stayed for 10 days, to allow for implementation to be planned and for any appeal.
Judge Pillard's dissent slams "spurious" criminal probes by Trump administration and pressure campaign that led Citibank to freeze climate funds that had already been awarded -- which she calls "sabotage of Congress' law." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel rules 2-1 to permit Trump administration to axe $16 billion climate funds authorized by Biden administration. Ruling lifts Judge Chuktkan's injunction. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
To put the effects of this distinction in more concrete terms: The order *does not* require the Trump administration to withdraw the remaining national guard troops. It can still use them for things like protecting federal property. But not for domestic law enforcement. bsky.app/profile/anna...
I know itâs a subtle distinction that most mainstream media publications will elide but technically Judge Breyer found that the Trump administrationâs *use* of the military was illegal Trumpâs legal authority to *deploy* the guard in CA is a separate question thatâs pending before the 9th Cir.
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 âŹď¸ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I don't like this new rule. I much preferred a presidency subject to checks and balances. But thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, we don't have that anymore. And Democrats aren't going to get it back by acting like the adults in the room. They'll only wind up ceding more power to the arsonists.
Everything I've seen about Democrats' version of Project 2029 is far too modest and weak-kneed. Democrats need to look at the precedents Trump is setting (and shattering) and figure out how a progressive can maximally wield the power that this administration is concentrating in the executive branch.
Where I live, in D.C., the Trump administration just effectively repealed our gun laws by refusing to enforce restrictions on AR-15s and public carry. It's a two-way street, right? The next Democratic administration should declare a nationwide ban on assault weapons. It's an emergency, after all.
NONE of these plans are any more extreme than what Trump is currently doing with the help of the Supreme Court. If Trump can shut down the Department of Education and CFPB, President AOC can shut down ICE. If Trump can kill green energy projects, President Newsom can kill the fossil fuel industry.
Impound ICE's funding and redirect the money toward mass refugee resettlement. Cut off federal funding to states with draconian abortion laws and use the money to build reproductive health clinics in those states instead. End oil and gas subsidies then funnel the money to green energy projects.
Other things the next Democratic president should claim a prerogative to do unilaterally: â˘establish Medicare for All â˘forgive all student loans â˘legalize weed â˘mandate nationwide non-partisan redistricting It's an emergency! And he's the duly elected commander-in-chief! That's how this works now.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: â˘admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states â˘abolish ICE â˘grant citizenship to any immigrant â˘disband the 5th Circuit â˘expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
JUST IN: The case over the Trump administrationâs effort to remove unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala has been assignedâŚto Trump appointee Tim Kelly. (Judge Sparkle Sooknanan only temporarily handled the case over the weekend because she was the emergency duty judge).
BREAKING Congressman Jerry Nadler will not be seeking re-election. This opens up a very prominent seat â Nadler represents a big chunk of Manhattan. Full Story: bit.ly/3JAv88W
In the midst of the Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration continued trying to make Donald Trumpâs fascism happen. What I saw in response, though, was heartening â on multiple fronts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
Elon is quoting Nazis again
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Headline: Biden coverup made it impossible to see Trump's body disintegrating