Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the @nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Kilmar Abrego's lawyers ridicule the govt's claim, after Trump and his cabinet members tarred Abrego repeatedly in the press, that a defense filing was supposedly "incendiary." "Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

it’s a common occurrence now to see the name of a complete lunatic you hadn’t thought about in a while and learn they’re the head of a federal agency. A year or two ago Pulte was fraternizing with a weird online cult who think there’s a conspiracy against Bed Bath & Beyond stockholders.

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in) Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”

Column: Standing up to Trump the despot will require Gloria’s courage Read more by Opinion Columnist Rick Hutzell: buff.ly/LuNvQJw

1. Why did Trump grant Top Secret access to a "low-level loser" 2. Why was it marked Top Secret if it's "flat-out wrong"

This decision is bad enough on the merits. But it also gives the government relief in a case in which it defied the district court at least *twice.* That’s quite a message to send to the government with respect to the costs of its litigation behavior in other cases—or the complete lack thereof.

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

When people ask me how I am: I expect to lose my job any day now. Masked men are kidnapping people off the streets. The US is involved in a war in the middle east. It rained here for so many days, I forgot what the sun looked like. But other than that, things are great.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do listen to the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social "Through the Govenor" doesn't seem that ambigous to me. Why have a separate insurrection act if the President can just call up the National Guard without consulting with a Govenor?

TRUMP SEPTEMBER 2020: “We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.” h/t Aaron Blake abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

This!

i don’t think it’s realistic to ask people being targeted due to their ethnicity and national origin not to engage in displays of ethnic and national pride

Abrego Garcia could ask for a bail hearing to cross examine the government on this pretty basic discrepancy. Suggests a real rush to charge in order to have a political face-saving way to bring him back. Of course, legally his due process rights were already violated, per the Supreme Court.

The presumption that he is a huge liar does a lot to insulate Trump from questions about whether his various erroneous statements indicate confusion or mental infirmity.

When we add to this the Cato Institute report showing how many migrants sent to El Salvador had in fact entered the country legally, THIS is the top story of the night. The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process. An actual nightmare.

Rule from the OPM would allow the president to fire career civil servants: no appeal or due process. Feds swear an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. This rule turns nonpartisan public servants into political pawns. Comments are open until 5/23 www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...

A US judge in Mass. has broadened his injunction to bar cheating. He'd barred DHS from removing aliens to countries not designated in their removal orders without due process. Govt removed several anyway through bankshots: 1st to Guantanamo, where nonparty DOD took custody, and then to 3d country.

scoop: @thedispatch , the right-of-center media startup, is acquiring @SCOTUSblog, an early-aughts pioneer of Supreme Court coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

Can't a business from another country purchase a bunch of Chinese goods and then sell them to the US and avoid the crazy trariffs and have an advantage over American businesses? Or am I missing something?

bsky.app/profile/mgoc... The order says people have to have notice and opportunity to file but guess what in this very case the government argued that people had that, when they clearly didn’t! And the government’s position is that once you’re disappeared you’re disappeared, no takesies backsies!

The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these: 1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps. 2. We decide who enemies are. 3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos. /1

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Really key stuff here. DOGE flipped the Institute's security contractors - Inter-Con - against them by threatening to cancel all their security contracts across the federal government. This is where DOGE's money meets up with guns and the lawyers are kicked to the side.

I am absolutely begging reporters who obtain internal letters, emails, memos, or recordings to PUBLISH THE PRIMARY SOURCE IN FULL

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Trump administration shut down the national database documenting police misconduct.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

DOGE is not responsible for the termination of this lease. The benefits to President Carter under the FPA terminated upon his death. This example is silly, but it calls into question how many of these cuts are attributable to DOGE and how many are attributable to rote government action. 6/6

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

We need @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the airwaves daily

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

I guess with Elon running things, he has extra time.

Trump just put a white supremacist in charge of U.S. diplomacy: Darren Beattie ➡️ fired for attending far-right extremist conference ➡️ now he’s shaping America’s global messaging His words? “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.” Reject white nationalism.

Where is Jill Stein? Oh wait. The election is over.

The State Department has fired about 60 contractors who work for its democracy, human rights, and labor bureau — a division whose programs have often been criticized by authoritarian leaders. The dismissals deal a severe blow to the bureau. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

One thing we learned the first time Trump was in power is that he surrounds himself with people who are both evil AND incompetent