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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.
His entire Presidency is about getting revenge on the nation for rejecting him in 2020 and causing him so much psychological anguish
Too late. His true colors have been revealed.
And then they came for the Holocaust museums.
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
When asked and shown a video of garbage bags being thrown out of a window at the White House, Trump blames AI saying “If something bad happens, just blame AI.” He just let us know his new strategy for denying any video evidence of his crimes.
Elon Musk Floods X With Anti-Migrant Posts, Calls For Mass ‘Remigration’
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify ICE agents beneath their masks www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Army Sgt. Bajun Mavalwalla II roadside bomb survivor, top secret clearance, Special Ops veteran arrested for "conspiracy" after peaceful ICE protest. His crime? Locking arms with demonstrators. Now facing up to 6 years inprison for exercising the rights he bled to defend.
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
i think all these guys are just used to having an army of online incels they can sic on you by simply posting a snarky qt and dont really know how to engage online without that
The usual apolitical stuff that keeps happening to apolitical military professionals
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?"
popularresistance.org/the-betrayal...
By doing this, Trump is signaling to white Americans that Black Americans are domestic enemies and terrorists, and it would be patriotic to put them down:
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
Confusion over federal immunization policy could have major implications for how families with private insurance and Medicaid pay for routine vaccinations. Some doctors are encouraging parents not to wait and get their children shots as soon as they are eligible. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is
Trump ordering National Guard to stop crime in Baltimore, despite city and state opposition
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 scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
Heroine?
If Trump had any real interest in addressing crime, his regime would work with law enforcement & Chicago leadership. Instead, he talks about “going in,” like he’s prepping a military invasion. This is nuts. This is dangerous. And it’s pitting states against states, echoing America’s deadliest war.
Meanwhile! ⏰️🤔😉🤣
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
Who knew that all schoolboards had to do was threaten to ban Atlas Shrugged? www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
You won’t believe Trump’s pathetic excuse for targeting immigrant children
@mxscottkernest.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Ah. Cosplay. Carry on.
Obviously. What drones are you thinking about?
Are you conflating drones with androids?
The National Guard aren’t Trump's to command.
Just left the pharmacy. While waiting, there was a woman bitching about her child being forced to get a vaccine for school. Something about "they"shouldn't be allowed to force people to get them if they don't want to. I wanted to run out screaming "WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE OF STUPIDITY!"
It was not about Colorado having mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots are about mail-in ballots. It's about Blue states.
Unless these DOD lawyers are ALJs, it appears to me there’s no statutory basis for this move. It’s illegal.
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
ok I'm convinced, he can still clearly babble non sequiturs like a dementia patient
Congress convened today at 12 noon and ended the session at 2 PM accomplishing nothing. MAGA Mike is a waste of a human being !!
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
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.
'To use women’s lives as a political prop while simultaneously advocating for politics that would harm them is hypocrisy at its ugliest.'
NEW: judge box of wine’s office fails to secure yet another indictment from a grand jury. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Awful: Kristi Noem just accused CBS of editing out her comments about Abrego Garcia. But the "suppressed" comments were largely lies! This comes after CBS handed Trump $16 million over the same bogus "editing" claim. There's no placating authoritarians. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
What the actual fuck is going on? Posted & deleted.
I just received notice there’s going to be a military flyover of DC tomorrow at 11am, just in time to distract from the 10:30 press announcement about the Epstein victims. Surely the timing is coincidental.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Every resident of Maine showed up for the guy running to unseat Susan Collins
"Of the 384 cases filed through August 28 against the Trump administration, 130 have led to orders blocking at least part of the president’s efforts, and 148 cases await a ruling, according to a review by Just Security." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
people on here have the most incredible brains
From the weekend: A few weeks ago, Scott Bessent suggested Trump wanted delay before SCOTUS rules on tariffs. Now, Trump is wailing about urgency (and lying, on epic scale, about $$). www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
I hope there will be a raffle.
This is like saying you can use Twitter as long as you block all the Nazis. No, the presence of huge community of abusive extremists distorts the entire social environment. I could block half the lunatics on here but everyone I didn't block would still be shaping their views around that community.
What until you find out the etymology of the word!
Who is paying for all of Botox Barbie’s cosmetic procedures n hair extensions? Yep, American’s tax $$$! I want a tax refund from all this waste n fraud we have paid for! #arrestnoem #notofascism
When Ben Franklin said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," he was urging people to value liberty, not saying that breaking laws, spending tons of money, and violating rights is worth it if it stops, say, petty theft.
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Happy Day-After-Labor-Day to all who celebrate.
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online. Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
ICYMI: A group of admin law scholars sent a letter to the House & Senate Appropriations Committees arguing why "pocket rescissions"—the idea that the president can propose rescissions of budget authority late in a fiscal year and then allow funds to expire while the proposal is pending—are illegal.
Vinay Prasad, who is both making it harder to get the Covid vax and has been anti-work from home in the past, is barely coming into office. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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
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Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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?
Trump just told the drug industry to end RFK Jr's career for him: Morning Joe www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
ICE is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order.
He stole the hat on 8/28z Then bragged about a "first come first serve" world. Then threatened to sue anyone who mocked him. Today: "i made a mistake." Yeah. You kept digging your own grave deeper for days. Too late for this BS. Enjoy being a societal villain. #FAFO. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
Check out our billboards and posters around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. If you're in D.C., be sure to follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social. You're going to want to see what we do next...
The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
Look into Thermochemical heat storage (TCHS) with salt hydrates. It is a promising, albeit emerging, technology for home use.
Gotta remember that a big part of the decline in total fertility rates is the disappearance of teenage pregnancy
My thoughts as well since it was the Pentagon who made the announcement first.