“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
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“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
im literally shaking. just got back from the store, where a masked man in a big coat grabbed me by the arm. he said: "listen here suit man. you didn't clock nuttin on the boss' sleeves, see? button that yap or you’ll get yourself fitted for cement shoes, capisce?” then he disappeared into the fog.
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas “is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois,” per the Austin American-Statesman. www.statesman.com/politics/tex...
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.
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
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!
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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
Extrajudicial killings = murder!
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
A federal government watchdog is sounding the alarm in a new report after cuts, “burnout, fatigue and low morale,” have caused the number of aviation meteorologists working with air traffic controllers to drop by 15%. Read more: https://cnn.it/4g5mPOh
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?"
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
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."
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
This Border Collie gently guides the ducklings into a puddle... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
John Jackson This is problematic. The U.S. just executed a drug dealer without any due process, a trial, or any appeals. What is the limiting principle? What other kinds of criminals can we now execute without warning? And what's this intervention? A war? How long? What's the mission?
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."
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
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?"
I know immigration law is a weird scene but uh, this doesn't seem particularly legal *US TO AUTHORIZE SOME LAWYERS TO SERVE AS IMMIGRATION JUDGES: AP *MILITARY LAWYERS TO SERVE AS TEMPORARY IMMIGRATION JUDGES: AP
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.
OVER THE WEEKEND: Wisconsin liberal activist and brewer Kirk Bangstad files class-action lawsuit in federal court in Madison, WI over masking of ICE agents. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More details about our last post. The decision sharply restricts what the deployed troops are allowed to do and applies only within California. The judge also pointed out that both Trump and
It’s odd that the president would need to give an Oval Office address about something as arbitrary (albeit idiotic) as moving Space Force or renaming the DoD. I have to assume he’s doing it because he knows the world thinks he’s hiding.
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
A coalition of labor and advocacy groups organized over 1,000 events across more than 900 cities on Labor Day, aiming to denounce what they view as the outsized influence of corporate America and billionaires on the second Trump administration.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 1,400, according to officials, as rescuers struggle to reach survivors.
The dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
NEW: judge box of wine’s office fails to secure yet another indictment from a grand jury. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Nothing tickles your baby’s funny bone like the unexpected. (Thread 🧵)
Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
US foreign policy update: friends alienated, enemies united, armed forces spreading mulch in DC. MAGA
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Ukrainian intelligence says Russia’s top tank maker depends on more than 260 Western-made machines that require foreign parts and updates — exposing a major gap in sanctions. www.kyivpost.com/post/59254
In a recent interview, Governor Pritzker discussed that he believes that Donnie's eagerness to put troops in US cities stems from Donnie's intention to make false claims about the upcoming 2026 elections & would be "an invasion". #PINKS
"To those on the C.D.C. staff who continue to perform their jobs heroically in the face of the excruciating circumstances, we offer our sincere thanks and appreciation."
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
How do you plan to greet your newborn in his or her first minutes? This alert little one is enjoying the benefits of at least two special gifts as they enter the world. Thread 🧵
9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Democratic Wins Media BREAKING: An enormous protest has erupted outside of Trump Tower in NYC against Donald Trump. The American people are rising up against Trump. Let’s go.
Adam Cochran More proof of a Trump health cover-up: -Trump leaves WH again this morning, mouth agape. -Not allowed to speak with reporters. Then it gets weirder... Like full-on AI gaslighting kinda weird...!
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Evil has a name Russia is committing the genocide of #Ukrainians. Russia strikes our cities, kills peaceful people, kills children. It steals hundreds and thousands of Ukrainian children, tortures captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, consistently breaks the laws of war, murders,rapes,steals⤵️
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will sign an executive order Saturday laying out initial plans for how the city will try to resist President Donald Trump’s planned immigration crackdown in the coming days. https://cnn.it/41r6v4z
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
On Wednesday, as firefighters worked to contain a 9,000-acre blaze in western Washington's forests, federal officials escorted 44 of those firefighters off the premises, arresting two of them on charges of illegally entering the country.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
“The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.” ~Philip Berrigan
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
“Thoughts and prayers.” “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
A 10-year-old child is on CNN talking about how he saw his friend got shot in the back. This country is so broken.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
RFK Jr 'weaponizing public health' and 'putting millions of American lives at risk', ousted CDC director's lawyers say
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,
Press conference as parody. Are there any real reporters in the room?
The Trump Administration is taking over the management of Union Station in Washington, D.C., saying that “strong direction is needed to restore this federal asset to its former glory.”
Suzie Rizzio OMG this is what you call a Hell of a Speech! This Priest is Phenomenal and completely Roasted Trump in every way possible without cussing! Governor Pritzker has Chicago behind him and he’s one strong amazing intelligent man that won’t allow any harm come to Chicago! 💪🔥💙
HAPPENING NOW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say in court he has filed a motion to reopen his immigration proceedings, set aside his deportation order and seek asylum. Judge Xinis says that process is totally distinct from her purview.
Trump appointee Judge Thomas Cullen has forcefully rejected the lawsuit the Trump admin filed against 15 other judges whom the DOJ accused of hindering the president’s mass deportation agenda. Cullen lamented what he described as the White House’s months-long “smear” of the federal judiciary.
Fancy an all-you-can-eat salmon buffet? Then head on over to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It's the salmon run season right now, and the waterfall is absolutely swarming with bears. They've all gotten so chubby from feasting. 🐻🧸 Yummy.. #nationalpark #bears #salmon #wildlife
Via Charlie Bilello: The US Money Supply grew 4.8% over the last year, the biggest YoY increase since July 2022. After a brief hiatus, money printing is back. #EconSky #Inflation
Yet people still ask why I mask indoors. THIS is why.
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
Impeach, convict, remove!
A lot happened for a Monday. But there’s a common theme: Trump’s increasing openness about his power grab. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
These guys should be home with their families.
🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Hello, Fascism.
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I just managed to mangle the quote "the arc of history bends towards justice" live, on MSNBC @nicollewallace.bsky.social, quoting Governor Pritzker. But I liked what he said next: "it doesn't bend on its own."
"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb
Totally something a non-dictator would do. The silence from the MSM is deafening. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states