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this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
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.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Really wish the media would speak with the same clarity as judges - absent a rebellion on U.S. soil, the President cannot deploy the National Guard to act as a police force under his control. I know the rule of law is not click bait, but it undergirds the functioning of society.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
Aside from looking very puffy, sniffing a ton, and rambling off track even more than normal, Trump doesn’t look bad. He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The first country the Nazis invaded was Germany. Don't forget that.
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
🚨Who makes money off of human detentions? Core Civic and GEO Group 1/2
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Will they be resigning their military commissions? These are active duty military officers being assigned to an administrative civilian roles. Unless you show me otherwise, it’s an unlawful order.
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Not following the constitution is what will lead this country to ruin.
trump has repeatedly voted by mail over the years while suing to keep others from doing the same
photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
This White House Administration understands the US Constitution, but they willfully ignore it. They willfully ignore "three co-equal branches of government." Trump is not a king.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Other things the next Democratic president should claim a prerogative to do unilaterally: •establish Medicare for All •forgive all student loans •legalize weed •mandate nationwide non-partisan redistricting It's an emergency! And he's the duly elected commander-in-chief! That's how this works now.
I am serious when I say that none of those actions would be more radical than what Trump is currently using his executive power to do—almost always with permission from the Supreme Court. And if the judiciary stands in the way, why not follow Judge Emil Bove's maxim and "tell courts 'fuck you'"?
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Not sure if it's obvious how bananas this is. The usual tariff argument is that it helps producers and hurts consumers (by more). But Trump's tariffs don't even help (most) producers. It's genuinely difficult to design a tariff regime that helps less than 4% of manufacturers!
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
I’m sorry this guy sucks
The networks love putting this man on TV on long interrupted stretches where he can lie directly to the public.
Here we go. Massie discharge petition with help from Ro Khanna, filed.
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
We now live in bizarrro world where gun control is bad but military occupation of U.S. cities as a solution to gun crime is good. Make it make sense.
Today, Congress is back in session. Priority #1: The Epstein files must be made public. The victims deserve justice, and Americans deserve the truth.
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups
“.. a historic, if dubious, achievement ..” @dkthomp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/derektho...
I was in court in July in Harvard v HHS & watched Velchik forcefully condemn his alma mater for ignoring anti-semitism. He argued the Trump admin had a duty to respond to Harvard's failings
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
So, they’re just going to pretend he didn’t have a stroke?
> @davebrown.bsky.social @politico.com
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
#ISM 🇺🇸
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
“The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building stands visible as protesters dressed as handmaids from The Handmaid's Tale march on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.” @gettyimages.com
* NASDAQ 100 trading below the 50-day for 1st time since April 30th @cnbc.com $NDX
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
With with Bessent’s most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
It’s wild to me that the US president is a billionaire several times over just from crypto projects launched within the past year.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Government Efficiency!!
Something is happening. I have no idea what, but it's something. And the WH Press Corps(e) has to know something. They're assigned to the WH. They follow the President around. The roads get blocked in DC when the motorcade travels, etc... He may not be dead or even sick. But, it's something.
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
That we would end up with Trump setting himself up as a dictator for life with the blessing of conservatives was clear as far back as 2021.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
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Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
This is ABC Martha Raddatz asking why U.S. governors & all Americans shouldn't simply accept authoritarianism, like apparently Raddatz does. This is beyond shameful that we have U.S. media acting like propagandists on behalf of FELON/Sexual Predator Trump & his Nazis - doing Putin's work for him!
So, Raddatz is a Nazi. Got it. Gushing over troops invading American cities. These press deserve the same retribution coming to those in the Trump admin.
This is never going away, is it?
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This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
Tesla investors are like a doomsday cult, every time the promised future doesn’t happen, they just move the goalposts. Dojo was hyped as a $600B unlock in 2023 by analysts. It was cancelled this month as an “evolutionarily dead end” according to Musk. The stock price actually went up that day. 😁
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
#FirebrandRecords #CABK
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Probably the most accurate thing I’ve read all day.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
she said that “black” with a hard r
Two days later ….
❗️It is obvious that the US leader is a Soviet or Russian agent. Objectively speaking, the new American leadership has strategically facilitated the Russian Federation — Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Annastasia 