Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Another case of waste fraud and abuse of $70billion taxpayer funded detention center. They hired a contractor who'd never don't the type of work then paid for millions on services not needed. Seems like with gas prices and your personal finances, trump doesn't care. apnews.com/article/ice-...

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom. n.pr/3RxYWqE

The delusional Mafia man is at it again . Trump orders new tariffs on imported drugs, adjusts industrial metals levies - The Washington Post share.google/rgDa38FISWLB...

Venezuela today. Despite Trump’s praise for Delcy Rodríguez, he renewed the 2015 executive order declaring Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. Venezuela After January 3: A Nation Standing in the Storm - Venezuelanalysis share.google/Jyze1LEZ76UQ...

While I was growing up in the Vietnam era, I do recall listening to many of that folk and protest songs. Missing in our current times is music to draw us together. This music is timeless. Https://open.spotify.com/track/6KjqfAk6vLV5V8eOPz8EhH?si=mYlxe5eaTmeoLRRewqiKnA

The case, filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses the Trump administration of ignoring legislation designed to stop the spread of Chinese propaganda — and instead helping to broker a partial sale to businessmen close to Trump. n.pr/3ONX6AB

At least the brits understand what's happening.

The DOJ: “We have not assessed this threat as sufficient to justify an attack on Venezuela itself, as military commanders have not advised us that Maduro’s actions are a direct or imminent threat to U.S. forces.”

This is an excellent piece by Michael Wood—and, for what it’s worth, captures as well as anything I’ve read my “strange mixture” of reactions and thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

Rep Jim Himes (D-CT), top Democrat on House Intelligence Committee: “Everything I have heard from the Administration before and after these strikes on Iran confirms this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame…”

if you ever called donald trump the “peace candidate” or expressed a similar sentiment, please have the decency to delete your account and go away and let smarter people discuss politics

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

I served 3 combat tours over our 20 years of war in the Middle East. Trump had an entire SOTU address to make the case for going to war in Iran. He did not. Congress is absent, & for years, it has ceded its war making powers. Now, Trump has started another foreign war. apnews.com/live/live-up...

We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved..... Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hmm, more lies. ICE eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

To be clear: I don’t think Trump would go to war to protect Israel. Rather, I assume Trump is driven by the same self-aggrandizing impulse that made him slap his name on the Kennedy Center.

Tik Tok, can a case be filed against the 'new' tarriffs and will it make it to the supreme Court in under 6 months like this case? I sure hope so

You can hear the midterm campaign ads being written right now: @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

The US Constitution begins to function

If only the Democrats take control of both houses this fall.

Yup, everyday ordinary citizens is what takes.

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

Earnest claims 1 in every ten dollars sent to Washington as tax payers dollars is spent fraudulently. So 1 out of 7 trillion dollars. And she's been a US senator with oversight for like 12 years and all she does is create squeal awards ?

Huh, so who's the snow flake now?

Tarriffs, making America great again. Levies on imports were supposed to bring back a golden age of U.S. manufacturing. They haven’t worked, so far. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Election Night Reporting share.google/37Xmqg1LHwnH... Repeat after me, Biden beat Trump by over 200,000 votes in Fulton County, GA. Trump wants you to believe that election fraud accounted for over 200,000 votes. Wake up, Trump is telegraphing that he plans on derailing the November elections .

NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now. Crowd stretching back over the horizon. (🎥 PSL Baltimore)

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Trump came to Iowa to speak to a roomful of 700 about the economy. Outside 2,000 plus Iowans protest Trump and his administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, where federal agents have killed two U.S. citizens. @indivisible.org www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

Thank you Central Iowa for showing up to the #Pretti #Good Reason to Protest, #ICEoutofEVERYWHERE event during Trump's visit to Iowa today. We made it clear, We want #ICEOUT You braved the subfreezing temps. Now call #Ernst and #Grassley and tell them no more $ for #ICE #DHS and impeach #Noem

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

This is a flat out lie. They want us to ignore and question what we see with our own eyes. Alex Pretti was supporting his community and protecting his neighbors when ICE murdered him.

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Springsteen at a NJ concert calling for ICE out of Minneapolis www.instagram.com/reel/DTp6Tw5...

Huh, who would have thought, people don't like the military occupying their streets and towns. Boston, 250 years ago. www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bos...

Yes

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

DHS policy is first deescalate. 2nd DHS LEOs should seek to employ tactics and techniques that effectively bring an incident under control while promoting the safety of LEOs and the public, and that minimize the risk of unintended injury

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

The Globe and Mail

“Illinois and Chicago seek to vindicate their sovereign authority … against an unchecked federal government." Trump administration hit with federal lawsuit over 'occupation of Illinois and Chicago' UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

And how will the Ministry of Truth spin this incident. Any ideas? US Border agents shoot two people in Portland, city officials say share.google/n27Qz9sQCgtD...