Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

Horrors of Trump II are so numerous that one is numbed. But as an old DOJ guy, this may be worst outrage so far. As reported, this is lay-down, old-fashioned, stack-of-greenbacks bribery conspiracy. No subtlety. No observable defense. But he's Trump's immigration mouthpiece. So DOJ shut it down.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

This guy with a "LICK MY BUTTHOLE FEDS" sign has been standing on top of his car this whole time. Confirmed at least one protester snatched by ICE in the chaos.

Dudes rock

As @jaknutson.bsky.social notes here, you basically only see these Rule8(a) rejections with pro se filings (ie non lawyer representing themselves). This isn’t something that you even really cover in law school other than to note it’s a rule that exists.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

"In reviewing the leaked materials, I have identified a number of deeply concerning questionnaire responses that can be connected to people who now hold positions of influence." Chance Phillips looks at a lesser known element of Project 2025:

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: "There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC.'"

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

The Trump administration’s rhetoric around Kirk’s murder, and its attempt to link it to progressive causes and groups, has raised fears it seeks to use the killing as false justification to further crack down on political speech and opposition politics in the U.S.

The U.S. has been intercepting boats like this for decades. The crews are overwhelmingly low-level people trying to make money, albeit illegally.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

The president says some forms of political extremism are acceptable.

It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.

Today’s murder of Charlie Kirk is outrageous. It is part of a dangerous pattern of violence that threatens the safety of all communities. This violence is unacceptable and tears at the social fabric, and we must find a way to work together to end it.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

TODAY IN DC: The far-right Tea Party Patriots are holding a rally at the U.S. Capitol to pressure the Senate to pass the SAVE Act. I'll be there reporting for @democracydocket.com. Killer lineup of confirmed speakers: Mike Lee! Chip Roy! Cleta Mitchell! 🫠 www.teapartypatriots.org/onlycitizens...

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

What's the point of being a journalist, a supposed defender of truth, if you're going to both-sides a pathetic, self-serving lie like this? Democracy dies in dimwitted both-sides-ism.

Is this one of those "brief" and "investigative" stops Kavanaugh was talking about?

Nut or not, Pulte also exemplifies the Trump administration's shamelessness about using selective law enforcement to target its critics, which may be one reason for all the anonymity.

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.

New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...

FBI: The Committee recommends $10,100,437,000 for the salaries and expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is $543,276,000 below fiscal year 2025 and $1,835,000 above the OMB Budget request.

Just perusing the House GOP's appropriations bill for the DOJ (and other agencies), and man you'd think, given Trump's rhetoric about crime in cities and drugs being caused by Democrats, they'd propose increasing the organized crime fighting budget. But no. docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/...

BREAKING: Democracy Forward obtained the previously secret grant agreement between the U.S. and El Salvador for holding hundreds of Venezuelans removed under the Alien Enemies Act in CECOT. Shows that the Trump administration paid El Salvador at least $4.76 million.

Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish. Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's. The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.

NEW: We know that the DOJ is aggressively after states' private voter data. But what we don't know: Why? I spoke w/ Secretaries of State and voting rights experts about why it would be extremely bad if the Trump admin got ahold of state voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans

DoD people assume DHS is having a recruitment problem and that’s why they’re trying to recruit civilian employees. As of now it’s voluntary, but TBD once they see lack of interest.

BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:

They fired or ran out of town everybody in the US Attorney's Office, and nobody will take the job. So now they need military conscripts.

Law Dork on Monday: "Just think, we almost made it 50 years with an agency that was dedicated to enforcing a rule protecting kids from choking to death on toys." www.lawdork.com/p/lafufu-lab...

"How much does it cost for a fascist country?" Quite a lot, apparently.

among other things, it is not actually illegal to be homeless or mentally ill in public

Another federal court calls out Government request to release grand jury transcripts as a "diversion." "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials." Real transparency: DOJ can release the Epstein files.

"You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard."

The “Hey Ed!” series is back Looking forward to Ed’s response!!!