Tactics by immigration agents attempting to arrest undocumented immigrants have shocked the public and led to protests. But what is, and isn't, allowed by law when it comes to ICE arrests?
Tactics by immigration agents attempting to arrest undocumented immigrants have shocked the public and led to protests. But what is, and isn't, allowed by law when it comes to ICE arrests?
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
We’re doing this to ourselves
Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.
Another miserable jobs report. Only 22,000 jobs added, well below expectations of 75,000. Unemployment rate rises to 4.3%. Hope Trump’s new BLS statistician didn’t get too comfortable.
Got to have a gladiatorial spectacle to accompany the imperial decline. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump v. United States
The Texas re-redistricting is a sign of Republican weakness, not strength. It is a sand castle that will be washed away in a blue wave
Cabinet secretaries, lying on the record
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
What is obvious: RFK Jr is an unqualified kook conspiracy theorist who has the CDC in shambles because he wants scientists to adopt his internet conspiracies as health policy putting us all in danger. Vance with the standard ‘look over here!’ MAGA playbook: Trans people!
I’m not sure Trump has made the strongest case for the Nobel Peace prize.
Trump says the job numbers may not be good now but a year from now they will be. A bit different from what we heard during the campaign. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Nothing will nail down a Nobel like rebranding to the “Department of War.” Also sorta overrides the key military mission of deterrence, which is a piece of our national & defense security strategy.
What these people want is to make you pay more on your electric bills. Again, convincing people to vote against their own self interest for the benefit of billionaires. When will people wake up?
Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs. RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat? Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.
RFK JR: We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication—is that what I should be doing? Warren: What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job.
This is a remarkable article. Federal judges are increasingly speaking out against SCOTUS’s approach to the shadow docket. This isn't typical & underscores the impossible position for lower courts when SCOTUS makes new law on its emergency docket – especially when it doesn’t explain its rulings. /1
For what? So they can kill them with polio and measles?
So RFK Jr can't breathe or hear. Great choice for health guy.
WARREN: Did you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign? RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no WARREN: This is not what she has said
RFK Jr: I'm not gonna recommend a product for which there's no clinical data. Is that what I should be doing? WARREN: What you should be doing is honoring your promise you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job, and that is you promised that you would not take vaccines away
RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history. SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.
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.
👇🎯 The case for more, not less, liberal arts education, remains as strong as ever. No matter what crypto bros, AI paladins, or CEOs regurgitating right-wing talking points about skills & higher education tell you, the ability to read & write well are the two scarcest resources in the labor market.
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.
Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands.
The law mattered this weekend for the children pulled off those planes, and it continues to matter as courts step in to check the administration’s worst, cruelest excesses. This was a win. Keep fighting. By @lizdye.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/sooknanan-...
It’s what Jesus would do
It was only a matter of time before we'd see both stories like this and passages like footnote 9 in Judge Burroughs' ruling yesterday in the Harvard case. It's one thing to be bound by #SCOTUS; it's another thing to respect what the justices are doing. The decline of the latter is a five-alarm fire.
⏰TODAY: A Massachusetts court will hear the DOJ’s arguments to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 19 Democratic states claiming Trump’s anti-voting executive order ‘sets the stage for chaos.’ The department argues the states lack standing. Background:
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.
I refer you to 50 USC §CuzIWanna
The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under? JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
Epstein survivor on Epstein: "His biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Inbox: Bernie Sanders is doing a "Fighting Oligarchy" town hall event with Zohran Mamdani at Brooklyn College on Saturday night.
appeasement ... its whats for dinner
And, speaking of Epstein buddies, no one puts it better than @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
More on same: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
Does anyone need a reminder that Alex Acosta, who gave Jeffrey Epstein the notorious "sweetheart deal" the first time his crimes were exposed became Trump's first labor secretary (until he was forced to resign when Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald exposed the whole thing in 2018).
The vile sexual predator Donald Trump and his enablers, like [alleged] alcoholic and [alleged] rapist Pete Hegseth, used our nation's Air Force to distract from Jeffrey Epstein's accusers. This underscores how threatened they are by the truth.
Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
Oh my.
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
For more than a decade, Andrew Cuomo pretended he had nothing to do with deteriorating subways and endless delays — even as he siphoned off funding from the MTA he controlled.
“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?
ICE is reportedly preparing a surge in raids across Chicago in the coming days. Chicago is ready. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
They'll keep taking your lunch money until you stop giving it to them.
It has been the honor of a lifetime to be collaboratively working on cases the last 7 months alongside legal legends like @normeisen.bsky.social The fight will continue. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
US policy should not rest on the illusion that selling #AI chips can trap #China inside the American tech ecosystem, writes Janet Egan (@cnas.bsky.social). If Washington wants lasting leverage, it should look higher up the tech stack. Read more: www.justsecurity.org/119874/ai-ch...
More than 100 students across four City University of New York colleges have so far benefited from the pilot program to help pay for masters degrees.
New in PN: Potemkin village populism "Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
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.
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...
NEW from @calmatters.org: A 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act defines what the military can do on U.S. soil. President Trump broke that law by sending the National Guard to L.A., a federal judge rules. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
"Hicks - who voted for Donald Trump - said he has sent dozens of letters to the president, Tennessee's senators and lawmakers in other states with major weapons facilities. "I've contacted politicians and the White House and haven't heard anything back." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Technically it wasn’t reassigned, it was assigned. There wasn’t an assigned judge before now. Judge Sooknanan was just temporarily handling the matter over the weekend as the emergency duty judge.
The case filed to protect unaccompanied Guatemalan children appears to have been reassigned from Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Sooknanan to Trump-appointed Judge Timothy Kelly, for reasons not currently specified on the docket. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Listen to my wonderful cohost Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social talking with Ezra Klein about the Supreme Court and Trump!! A must-listen conversation - in part because if Kate & Ezra are where they are on SCOTUS ... it's a 5 alarm+ fire! @strictscrutiny.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Are these not your words from @POLITICO, 3/15/2021? Or are you saying you let @kyledcheney.bsky.social slip it past you?
Judge Charles Breyer rules that the Trump administration brazenly violated the Posse Comitatus Act when it deployed soldiers to enforce domestic laws in LA. Breyer says Trump may not create "a national police force with the president as its chief." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Morning Memo, your weekday chronicle of the depredations of the Trump II presidency: morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com
In an additional twist, Politico reports that some of the facilities housing the children may be resisting turning them over to ICE. It obtained a memo–dated Sunday and signed after Sooknanan’s order–from the acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement that chastised its contractors:
In a replay of the March weekend when the Trump admin secretly launched the Alien Enemies Act deportations, it was busted over the Labor Day weekend trying to whisk unaccompanied Guatemalan children out of the country. This time it complied with court orders. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In a replay of the March weekend when the Trump admin secretly launched the Alien Enemies Act deportations, it was busted over the Labor Day weekend trying to whisk unaccompanied Guatemalan children out of the country. This time it complied w/ court orders. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Ya think?
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trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Phew
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In fact, a centuries-old playbook:
Literally, about how @nytimes.com covers American politics changed, from the point at which it wrote that masthead editorial & today. Its editors have just continued with the same decades-old playbook as if nothing had happened. New levels of torturous euphemisms & normalization ever day.
All the news that’s . . .
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created a masterpiece of conceptual art. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? By Louis Menand www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.
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While you languish on crumbs of comfort know what you lost.
While you languish on crumbs of comfort know what you lost.
He needs help.
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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.
“Do I think the Supreme Court will uphold this opinion? I do not. Do I think “major questions” doctrine is anything but a “get out of statutory text that authorizes policy outcomes we don’t like” card? I definitely do not. But that doesn’t mean this decision is not sound.”