reading the morning newspaper is a realistic benediction of the day--Hegel
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Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
otoh the Khan of Illinois every day wise as serpent innocent as dove
strange. fabric doesn't normally fall like that across an arm.
THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
The Great Khan extols the his sacred virtues and calls upon his warriors to uphold the wisdom of the Steppe!
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.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov said anyone that takes Trump's word at face value is insulting Chicagoans Why is @nytimes.com insulting Chicagoans? "Chicago crackdown" followed by "Trump promised crackdown"--is Trump really a reliable narrator? bsky.app/profile/atru...
A real “hood off” moment.
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
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
I think Illinois can and should sue Texas in the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and seek a preliminary injunction against the use of any un-federalized Texas National Guard troops in Illinois.
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.
Young said the word apologize Followed by "if they think..." I don't doubt what you say about tone But the entire sentence is easily read as implying that if the justices really think that, they're not thinking clearly or fairly
"Young said he never meant to run afoul of Supreme Court precedent, ... he 'simply did not understand that orders on the emergency docket were precedent,...[T]his court will absolutely obey and generously adhere to the precedential decisions of the Supreme Court,'" that's ... not an apology
Being partisan for the survival of our democratic republic hasn't always meant saying that a blue wave is necessary But it is now because Trump is trying to revoke Magna Carta and restore trial by ordeal
I don't say this as a criticism of your sister but her newsletter commentary yesterday didn't seem scrupulously nonpartisan to me It seemed scrupulous + partisan + political too I donate and participate in my state D party + make other contributions bc Trump is hostile to our freedoms
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
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."
Megatons of dignity >>> bsky.app/profile/noma...
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
I just signed Rep. Massie’s discharge position to force a vote on the Epstein Files. If Speaker Johnson wants to block it, he has a fight on his hands–and a lot of explaining to do.
Trump’s voice in his interview with Scott Jennings this morning … something’s not right.
If anyone in the the majority has read the article below they show no sign of it papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Re the enabling of Trump's claims I don't know if justices in majority recognize that Trump isn't just fighting the Constitution he's fighting against the 1689 prohibition of dispensing and suspending and Magna Carta and the 1215 prohibition of blessings for trial by ordeal
"without a word" is the worst thing whether our criterion is Rawls's "court as exemplar of public reason" or Kant's publicity condition or the Missouri condition "show me!" the Court majority is dissolving its own legitimacy
Can you say "purports" to authorize @apnews.com ?
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.
bluesky hasn’t become massive but it’s not because we’re an echo chamber, it’s because we’re annoying in a ton of other ways and i think that’s beautiful
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
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
I know it’s a subtle distinction that most mainstream media publications will elide but technically Judge Breyer found that the Trump administration’s *use* of the military was illegal Trump’s legal authority to *deploy* the guard in CA is a separate question that’s pending before the 9th Cir.
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...
ah ha, those rascals and their casuistry anyway my homemade "mimosa" ingredients are relatively deluxe but still less than $7/glass: sparkling wine from Loire (Arnaud Lambert) or Jura (Tissot or Pignier) or Spain (Avinyo) and fresh oj from Zupans or some such
they used to be on SE Stark I guess I'm behind the times lol they're in the airport only now? if it's the airport I guess $7 isn't high
right and I do not care for the @nbcnews.com headline, because I don't believe that a military occupation of Chicago would be lawful so "crackdown," which implies to me a legitimate use of authority, is the wrong word
iow "officially eligible" in a headline could mislead or worse discourage people from seeking shots
the article by Maggie Astor, and her linked 8/27 story on flu shots, explains what "officially eligible" means MDs might be willing to help people get a shot "off label" etc I think the obstacles to access for mRNA covid vaccines are very bad public policy, and also that "eligible" could mislead
Right I just hope he's right about the not commanding fealty part
iirc awhile ago you had some interesting takes based on the Weber translation below I think you might be more instructive than provocative if you said something about bluesky as an ideology with reference to Weber (or Geertz or Mannheim or Ricoeur) books.google.com/books?id=FDm...
As a voter in Chicago Illinois during Carter Reagan Bush 51 and Clinton, I figured I was voting for local leaders like Mayor Harold Washington or state senator Obama to deal with roads schools policing etc And voting for federal officials to deal with Medicare Social Security and nuclear weapons
Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
3) imo Pritzker is not "defying" anybody He's doing his job 4) search Wikipedia for"crime in Chicago"; it's down a lot since I lived there decades ago, but I might avoid the listed areas with higher murder rates
2) if you haven't watched Pritzker's explanation of why he doesn't welcome Trump's threatened military occupation I recommend it bsky.app/profile/govp...
Suggestions from someone who lived 20 years in Chicago 1) per our Constitution voters in Illinois + city of Chicago chose elected officials who are responsible for schools roads policing etc; you and I, voters elsewhere, chose federal officials who are responsible for Medicare + nuclear weapons
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...
Judge Breyer cites the statements made by President Trump and DoD Secretary Hegseth about deploying the National Guard around the country in blue cities as grounds for finding that it's necessary to issue an injunction blocking the Trump admin from continuing to violate the law.
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
In related news as Hegel said there's nothing more abstract than that which is merely concrete
Smith's answer looks more abstract than what Sulzberger said about the goals of journalism in an op-ed a few months ago-- Not advocacy but information and context to help us figure out if our government is sustaining or eroding our freedoms more comprehensible and reasonable than Smith's answer
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
TIL that Labor Day protest marches are just another episode in “The Democratic Party’s Troubles”
Crackdown implies a legitimate use of authority Is that what Trump is up to?
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
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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.
Is "crackdown" a fair and accurate description of what Trump is doing (and threatening)? Are NYT editors defying Sulzberger's putative wishes? Information and context to help us figure out if our government is eroding our freedoms? Sulzberger said it but NYT is ignoring his advice
Is "crackdown" a fair and accurate description of what Trump is doing (and threatening)? Are NYT editors defying Sulzberger's putative wishes? Information and context to help us figure out if our government is eroding our freedoms? Sulzberger said it but NYT is ignoring his advice
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
p.s. I don't go along with everything Cass Sunstein publishes but I am glad he's out with an updated edition of >> direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...
There were "River Gods" in the Connecticut Valley in the colonial era And in the 20th and 21st centuries the insurance companies have been the rulers of the Connecticut Valley (schools important too but) Sen Jay Rockefeller (WV) wanted a public option, so did Robert Menendez (NJ) but Lieberman
FDR and LBJ and Obama are remembered for their achievements in promoting our health and well-being and for moving the United States toward a more decent society (They're remembered for other reasons ofc) I don't think the lesson for future leaders is to attempt nothing
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
btw "rampant online speculation" era could be ending and "optative mood" era could be underway
Why would @msnbc.com buy into the preferred framing of Trump and Stephen Miller? Crackdown implies legitimate use of authority Is that what is happening? Consider that @govpritzker.illinois.gov might have a better handle on the situation @maddowblog.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Someone please kill me right now.
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.
That photo of a mute Trump being propped up at his golf course by a MAGA radio guy could mark the transition from “speculation” (hypothetical, subjunctive mood) to the optative mood (wishes, desires) “English has n morphological optative, but various constructions impute an optative meaning”
This photo might not put a stop to “rampant online speculation” about President Trump’s health Also, “speculation” is in the subjunctive mood—hypotheticals A lot of what’s going on is in another grammatical mood, the optative Optative has to do with wishes and desires
NYT coverage yesterday included snark about “rampant online speculation” re Trump—as if there weren’t enough silence from journalists? and as if the photo with a golfer named Gruden weren’t a likely fake btw there is some speculation (subjunctive) but a whole lot of optative mood (wishes, hopes)
NYT coverage yesterday included snark about “rampant online speculation” re Trump—as if there weren’t enough silence from journalists? and as if the photo with a golfer named Gruden weren’t a likely fake btw there is some speculation (subjunctive) but a whole lot of optative mood (wishes, hopes)
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
But no matter what they say, pocket rescissions are illegal - and the exact part of the law that they claim *grants* the power actually directly prohibits it instead. However, even if the law did grant them the power, it would be unconstitutional under the LIVA decision. bsky.app/profile/bbko...
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
They are never going to be a hundred percent honest about the health of the President of the United States, no matter who it is. If they admit to more than a cold or the flu, they're running something up the pole to buy time.
"perhaps most appealing" and "unlike the controversial..." are not the product of a news outlet that is focused on personal liberties
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
Also only true if we assume some honesty and good faith on Drew's part I don't know enough to give him that
"perhaps most appealing"? to whom? "unlike the controversial..."? some ugly and frivolous framing here
And How do you know that Roland Barthes' theory of the death of the author was on point?
And Accusations of "rampant online speculation" lol Who knows who posted the posts in question?
Another problematic journalistic choice >>> Trump or “Trump” posted Who knows if Scavino or another aide posted?
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
