White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries. theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Roberts Court already exhausted at the prospect of MQDing every Dem reg that comes its way in a few years, readying its nuke

still thinking about the people who claimed in February that opposition to Trump had all but disappeared

the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi

really good essay from @joestieb.bsky.social on what the just-released national security strategy says about MAGA--and the authoritarian internationale. they believe the foundation of america is white christian patriarchy, and they are writing that into defense policy.

This should be seen as an act of constructive resignation

and i’ll use @donmoyn.bsky.social’s post here to make the point that the other piece of the unitarian view seems to be that the purpose of the executive branch is to be an extension of the president’s will, rather than a tool to execute the commands of the legislature.

But also it does have to do with Trump because Trump is in office and this will give his people more control over the administrative state. And the Court knows that.

This is one of those outcomes, like Dobbs, that I think really doesn’t have to do with Trump. It has to do with the priorities of a conservative legal movement that wanted the law to change in specific ways and is now dominant on the Court and is changing the law in those ways.

It's so maddening that a movement purporting to put "America First" and "Make America Great Again" can be so un-American in its fundamental beliefs about the US constitutional order.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

You know what would have been really easy? To write an amendment that just said that persons formerly enslaved in the US were now citizens. Why doesn’t it use that narrow language, I wonder…

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

That's right

“…six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious ethical concerns, the pilot project — switched on last week— is raising alarms far beyond Edmonton, the continent’s northernmost city of more than 1 million people.”

"Citizenship, which is to be free and equal"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

In Virginia + nationwide, most of what ICE is doing has nothing to do with crime. According to ICE’s own stats. Most of the time they’re arresting people who aren’t even suspected of a crime. There’s no reason for state or local gov to volunteer support for this. Collaboration is voluntary.

Alito on the first point he finds “decisive”: “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map…was partisan advantage plain & simple.” Red herring. Everyone concedes this. Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

it's only a 'gotcha' if there's consequences to being got otherwise, it's power advertising its unaccountability

The whole idea of war crimes, based on lessons from centuries of bloodshed, is that there’s no such thing as “battlefield immunity.” War permits a lot of horrific things, but even with that standard some actions are over the line. Not a nicety or a favor. A way to make it somewhat less horrific.

A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes. Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.

of course [hegel voice] this just demonstrates the deep neediness at the heart of defining yourself in terms of another,

People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

Mark Kelly has responded:

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

This administration is very much the FAFO administration and it's making people rethink everything like how the Westboro Baptist Church was SO homophobic that it made a lot of people support gay rights

Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.* The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Indeed, some of the earliest petitions and what we’d now call letters to the editors that circulated in print media in the early americas were manifestos, and other political writings from enslaved and free Black people arguing for abolition and/or return to Africa.

#BREAKING: Just hours after Texas asked #SCOTUS to pause Tuesday’s ruling that had blocked its new House congressional district maps, Justice Alito has issued a temporary “administrative” stay pausing that ruling (and putting the new maps back into place) while the full Court considers next steps:

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

🔥🔥🔥 "Commandeering is the entire purpose of this lawsuit. "Invalidating New York's protections against civil immigration arrests of residents participating in state court proceedings would mean that "state participation in [immigration enforcement] efforts would no longer be voluntary."

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out DOJ’s lawsuit to compel NY to aid in immigration arrests at state courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We concluded our series of provocations ahead of a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh's Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL) on threats to knowledge and democracy. Here's a snapshot:(1/10) 1. The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age by Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley.

“Please remember that these are crimes that were committed against real humans, real individuals.”

They got the little kids in Lancaster writing poems about Thaddeus Stevens now. 😭😭😭

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

"I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross." -priest who was protesting peacefully.