BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
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BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
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.
Trump plans to announce that the U.S. Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama. The decision ends a bitter yearslong turf war between both states.
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...
#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...
NEW: judge box of wineâs office fails to secure yet another indictment from a grand jury. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
A judge ruled that Trump can't act as national police chief, declaring that the president broke the law when he deployed troops to Los Angeles.
So many horrifying possibilities.
The Gaza Trump Riviera and Islands? What could go wrong?
I think the plan for large-scale solar plants in Gaza made me laugh the most
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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.
Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.
My new one is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
300,000 Israelis on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight calling for an end to Netanyahu's forever war and the release of the hostages.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
"Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian ...expose Homan's brazen corruption: earning at least $5,000 in consulting fees from GEO Group, the private prison giant now raking in $130 million from ICE contracts he helps award." youtu.be/wy75WsXyECA?...
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
âJobs disappear and the markets cheer.â On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
Taken an hour ago. Healthy and fit as ever.
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."
NEW: During an emergency hearing on Sunday afternoon, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. Read my live coverage of the hearing on @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Has anyone said whether Rudy was driving or whether he had been drinking? www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
Exactly. A decrepit 81 year old Giuliani is going to stop on a highway to help a random woman flagging for help? I don't think so. Something is fishy. And why in the world is he still driving?
I'm in.
âWhat independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, dataâ to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet YellenâŹ. âAmericans need to worryâ about political interference. Itâs âa recipe for runaway inflation.â #Velshi
Ok, so we're already up to TRILLIONS taken in from tariffs. Sure.
At the Farmersâ Market- Not the picture of DC you get from the White House:
Sorry, but the scariest places in America arenât Black neighborhoods, itâs towns like Vidor, where historically, Blacks (and Asians, Jews & Italians) could be lynched w/o consequences. Thereâs literally no equivalent the other way. Thank God these young men werenât harmed. youtu.be/Px_P0bRkbfU?...
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationâs effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children âare in the process of being removed" today.
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly tryingâimminentlyâto deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Every five years, the Fed Board in DC votes to approve the reappointment of all 12 regional Fed presidents. This is typically a routine matter. But if Trump has enough governors willing to do so, they could decline to reappoint the regional Fed presidents. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
The party of âfamily valuesâ is attacking our kids.
Join us for a rally and march starting at 11 a.m. on Monday (Labor Day) at Chicago's Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's planned military occupation to crush our dissent and force our compliance with cruelty. We will resist.
> @governor.ca.gov
John Shin, a 37-year-old violinist who has played with the Utah Symphony, is being held in a detention center more than 500 miles away from his home.
Su: The BLS collects statistical information â things like the nationâs inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trumpâs political enemies, including economist Lisa Cook. However, critics argue that Pulte's abuse of office is "a far, far greater offense than any personal mortgage occupancy fraud by a federal official."
AP: âWhen Trump awarded a contract for $1.2 billion for đșđžâs largest immigration detention complex, it handed it to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small biz with no experience⊠its address a modest home in suburban Virginia.âđ€ Golden Age of Corruption. apnews.com/article/trum...
AG conversation with Heather Cox Richardson. youtu.be/Xm35q8958ks?...
Chicago mayor says police will not aid federal troops or agents reut.rs/3JFTTjS
Feel like it's worth periodically reiterating that "conservative" is not a protected class. Being a minority puts you in a protected class. Hating minorities just makes you a dick. There is no moral or legal requirement for any organization to have some minimum number of dicks.
Trump's "thoughts" written by someone who tried to sound like him.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How can you even stand to be in the same room with Gutfield? Is he that despicable in real life, or is it all just an act?
For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Muskâs supercomputer raised concerns. The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. Thatâs not exactly true. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Itâs good that the courts are making clear that Trumpâs destructive tariffs are illegal. These tariffs are crushing small businesses and costing regular people thousands of dollars for no good reason. Democrats will keep pushing to end these tariffs & restore economic sanity.
White House Downplays Trump Hand Bruise As Least Concerning Part Of Body https://theonion.com/white-house-downplays-trump-hand-bruise-as-least-concerning-part-of-body/
A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the countyâs move to cut more than 100 polling sites. âYouâre not saving money,â she said. âYouâre sacrificing democracy to save a buck.â With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
First on CNN Chicago mayor signs executive order laying out plans for the city to resist President Trump's planned immigration crackdown
For no particular reason, I was just thinking about the Succession episode where Logan dies and how good it was.
He isn't the only one who can manifest.
well we're all going to die
Are there Vegas odds about the Rumor?
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
Trump MIA. Also nothing scheduled over the weekend. Hasn't golfed in a while.
Another swing state Dem pledges to refuse AIPACâs money. theintercept.com/2025/08/29/a...
ICMYI: The Joy Reid Show interview with Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, which Trump and his regime have put in their occupation crosshairs next. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJf...
âBy merely accusing you of entering unlawfully, the Government would deprive you of any meaningful opportunity to disprove its allegations,â the judge added. âFortunately, that is not the law.â www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
The top Democrat on the House committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case said that the estate of the convicted sex offender will turn over a book that reportedly contains an explicit 2003 birthday message from Trump to Epstein.
Remember that time at a town hall when he stopped taking questions and just started playing music and dancing for 40 minutes? Seems like the same songs.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
$DJT
"...since reporting his concerns to management, he has "suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable."" www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
DC's night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, they document the occupation forces' constitutional violations, write Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano.
The "dangerous diplomatic embarrassment" horse is already out of the barn.
After nationalizing Intel, Comrade Trump (America's leading SOCIALIST!) unveils new statue! ALL HAIL COMRADE TRUMP!
"The federal governmentâs revenue-sharing agreements with Nvidia and AMD, as well as its equity stakes in Intel, U.S. Steel, and MP Materials, threaten the very foundations that have made the U.S. economy the best in the world..." time.com/7313446/trum...
đš BREAKING #NEWS Federal appeals court blocks #DHS termination of TPS for Venezuelans #legal www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The ACLU's not done fighting yet to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt for the March 15 flights. In a video interview, lawyer Lee Gelernt told me that he filed en banc petition because letting feds flout orders is "very dangerous." cc: @MeidasTouch.com www.allrisenews.com/p/aclu-crimi...
Over the course of a few days, more than 1,800 NYU students showed up and had access to tens of thousands of pounds of donated items, including about 155 microwave ovens.
WATCH: âIts not exactly an Agatha Christie mystery.â @marcelias.bsky.social & @raskin.house.gov say Trumpâs seat-stealing, mail-in voting ban, and inevitable invasion of Blue cities to intimidate voters are all to steal the 2026 election. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLI...
BREAKING: Federal Circuit, 7-4, rejects Trumpâs tariffs under the IEEPA, affirming the lower courtâs decision against Trump. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, bless him for saying it out loud. "The utmost leader of the biggest global superpower, objectively, is a Russian asset. I'm saying that, objectively speaking, the new American leadership has strategically favoured the Russian Federation." #Krasnov đ”đč
So disgusting! "Some of the AI-generated celebrity content was particularly risqué: Asked for intimate pictures of themselves, the adult chatbots produced photorealistic images of their namesakes posing in bathtubs or dressed in lingerie with their legs spread." www.reuters.com/business/met...
The villains in our world are as evil, ugly, and ironically comical as any ever imagined by Marvel. If villains can be this real, so can Avengers.
BREAKING: Missouri governor orders redrawing of U.S. House map, expanding President Trump's push to tilt more seats toward Republicans in 2026.
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." --Abraham Lincoln, 1838 www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trumpâs authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Trumpâs ending of Harrisâ protection comes as she soon embarks on a multi-city, high-profile book tour around the release of â107 Days,â her new memoir on her short presidential campaign, set to be released September 23." www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Months into the relationship between bookie Bowyer and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, Bowyer's associate noticed wires from the interpreter were coming from an account bearing the name Shohei Ohtani. "The minute I saw that wire was when I knew I was fucked" Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Iowaâs Joni Ernst wonât seek reelection next year.
AN HONOR! THANK YOU!!!
Ok, thx. From Investopedia, "Since a block canât be changed, the only trust needed is at the point where a user or program enters data. This reduces the need for trusted third parties, such as auditors or other humans, who add costs and can make mistakes." I don't trust this regime data source.
South Korean former first lady Kim Keon Hee and former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo are indicted on criminal charges.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
â.. if, God forbid, there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better on-the-job training than what I've gotten over the last 200 days,â he added. @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
The debate over how to classify the present regime in the US matters primarily because of its practical upshot. If the disagreement is really about the authoritarian âbox scoreâ (rather than direction of change), then what really matters is identifying (thus to emulate) successful resistance. (1/3)
Software developer Eliza Labs has sued Elon Muskâs X Corp, accusing it of extracting valuable information from the company before suspending its account on the social media platform and launching copycat AI products @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4lRftzw
Wtf does it even mean that they "put record GDP numbers on the blockchain?" What blockchain? Whose blockchain? What is even happening?
I think the most stubborn MAGAs, probably about 38% of Republicans, would just follow right along with Vance if he actually became president. But Trump could decide to take Vance out of office and replace him with someone he would prefer as a successor.
The more I think about this, the more I think itâs actually a relatively positive development for the plaintiffsâwho were able to get the full D.C. Circuit to revive some of their strongest claims (the amended panel ruling) in a way thatâs not likely to provoke immediate intervention from #SCOTUS.
"The White House has dismissed Robert Primus from the Surface Transportation Board as it reviews an $85-billion merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. The firing is part of broader dismissals by Trump's administration in independent agencies." www.devdiscourse.com/article/poli...
A Peter Thiel crony tech bro now runs CDC.
NEW: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our preservation order for Musk's phone records in our FOIA case against DOGE. The request was made by the other plaintiff in the case - First Amendment Coalition - as they propounded the FOIA. You can read the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Thereâs a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called âThe March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.â As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.