1) Brilliant 2) Its’s Elka Bee’s if you’re in the Portland area and you want to support

A law that Trump himself signed into existence!

The only crime here is putting MUSTARD on a SUB

The correct answer is: “yes, it’s the law”

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

If this isn’t a comment on the rapidly deteriorating consumer backdrop, I don’t know what is. $PZZA $APO 🍕

Interesting that the governor of Texas doesn’t understand what a tariff is.

Just because “I want to”

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

Although it is not a ruling, it is, by implication, a pretty clear statement that there is not a majority of the court ready and willing to side with Trump on this issue at this time. - Geidner

Portland Police Chief Reveals Troops Tear-Gassed Protest by Accident newrepublic.com/post/202443/... via @newrepublic.com

Well, holy shit. They did deploy here against orders.

So, did Trump sign 1500+ Jan 6 pardons by hand?

Trump’s USDA is pretending it can’t use emergency funds for food stamps. So Americans will go hungry 🚫 🍽️ while Democrats fight for healthcare 🏥 and Trumps tears down the White House 🧨 Yup, that tracks.

A reminder: This is what America looks like without a legislative branch.

This is some dystopian bullshit.

Disgusting. They’re still bound by the Constitution

Was this post made before or after a private donor gave $130 million to pay the military?

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Even better, he'll end up writing it off and somehow *still* not give the money to charity I think it's much safer to assume that he ends up netting something close to a billion on this, given that he decides how much he wants to receive on the basis of how much he thinks is a lot for him right now

‘Tis but a scratch!

Damn it looks so much worse from this angle. I’m gonna need daily updates.

New: 9th Circuit Judge Thomas requests a vote for a full court rehearing of the Portland Nat'l Guard case. Graber wrote in her dissent today: "I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur"

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

Vermont’s Republican Governor Phil Scott blasted Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, calling it unconstitutional. It follows Oklahoma’s GOP Governor Kevin Stitt criticizing the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois.

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Immergut to dissolve her second TRO, blocking the deployment of any state's National Guard troops to Oregon, arguing that the logic of today's Ninth Circuit panel decision requires it. (Puzzlingly, DOJ didn't appeal this second order.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Can’t wait to see the signs at the next protest.

I didn’t think this was real at first - but it is.

We will urge the *full* Ninth Circuit to vacate today’s decision by a three-judge panel, before illegal Guard deployments can occur. A Ninth Circuit judge has already called for a vote on whether the case should be heard by the full court. Our team will file a brief encouraging the court to do so.

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said, what the government is providing me is false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again.”

Ah well, you know…. Both sides something something

🚨2-1 panel of the 9th Circuit (2 Trump vs 1 Clinton appointee) permits Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The majority opinion finds that Trump properly considered the situation from June through September, and declares the ICE protests disruptive enough to call out the Guard.

Oh look, he lied

When asked if the president had a comment on the demonstrations, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, gave a brief response in an email. “Who cares?” she said.

He thinks the problem is the people who want to punch Nazis? “We need another MLK, we need someone who is like an adamant expresser of nonviolence as the only option and then we all need to embrace that because there are too many punch-a-Nazi people out there.”

No shit. How does one not realize this immediately?

Really in the "purely because I can" era of political corruption

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case.

Fmr Col. Doug Krugman: The pardon of the January 6th insurrectionists was a moral line for me. The oath is to defend the Constitution. That group of people tried to storm the Capitol, were chanting for the death of elected leaders, and trying to keep Congress from performing its constitutional role

Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a court ruling and allow President Trump to deploy troops in Illinois, ramping up federal efforts to send the National Guard into the Chicago area.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to tweeting about the extrajudicial killings of civilians in international waters and celebrating the gutting of USAID.”

No U

America’s very own villain

New York City schools have sued federal education officials over the U.S. Education Department's decision to discontinue grants worth millions of dollars because of school policies supporting transgender students.

Not sure what’s worse - their ability to lie or the public’s ability to suspend belief.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.” @andykroll.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com