The ongoing theme of the Garcia case is that of an authoritarian regime so unwilling to admit it was wrong that it will weaponize every act of the administrative state it controls (incl immigration judges now) to impose their lawless outcome

They will do the same mindless, cowardly thing over and over until we get a real leadership turnover.

credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."

Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

We are going to get played over and over and over as long as Schumer remains Senate leader. Prepare for more capitulations to come. He has to go. Now.

If outside moderate factionalists really want to disclaim this outcome, they should seize the whip hand in demanding accountability. Immediate new leadership elections, mid-session resignation for all Dem capitulators who would be replaced by Dem governors. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov tell @durbin.senate.gov to retire now. He’s worse than useless. It’s time he’s put out to pasture. Same goes for @duckworth.senate.gov if she doesn’t vote to remove Dick and Schumer from leadership.

People shouldn't forget that the first domino setting off tonight's capitulation came from the American Federation of Government Employees two weeks ago Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care What ever happened to solidarity?

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Americans deserved a better deal than this one.

Time to dump Schumer.

Schumer out now. Unacceptable. A staggering defeat.

@khanna.house.gov calls for Schumer's ouster. But @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov are loyal

So the Dem #CaveCaucus aren't even getting a real vote out of their surrender: ♦️Without a House vote, any Senate vote is meaningless. ♦️And without at least 4 GOP crossovers, a Senate vote is meaningless too.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

May this be the moment Democratic senators realize they are politically vulnerable if they stay silent and support the current awful leadership.

This is the only reasonable position to take. #chuckchuck

It's a fucking miracle Obamacare lasted even this long

Pretty sure caving after getting nothing isn’t what her constituents were thinking of

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

I'm unbelievably mad at Democratic leadership. That includes, first and foremost, Democrats who voted to capitulate. But it also includes those who organized the deal (Schumer) AND those who won't come out now and call for a change in Democratic leadership. Until there's a change, we're cooked.

Indeed. Until progressives in the Senate Democratic caucus directly challenge Schumer’s leadership it’s kind of hard to take their grousing seriously at this point. They are all in on this #SchumerSurrender politics.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

9️⃣ The way out starts with clarity. Stop calling capture “jurisprudence.” Stop conferring symmetry where there is none. Stop laundering tyranny as “Supreme Court decisions.” Name the hijackers, not the robes. Read the full piece here: www.weekendreading.net/p/calling-th...

Bovino really not beating the fash allegations with this fit Original post here: www.instagram.com/p/DPjGdpXAH00/

A lawsuit laying out, step by step, just how cluelessly, dangerously wrong Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion and the majority's vote from earlier this month were. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal

We need a Democratic Party led by people who understand and take seriously what it means to be the opposition party under an authoritarian regime. That has to be the framework in which all decisions are made. As individuals we won't always agree on the strategy but we have to agree on the problem.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

UPDATED. The federal government “has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

WTB Department of Kerning

And to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

"We are celery salt and tomatoes and onion, sport peppers and a dill pickle and relish so green you swear it's not real." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

We're going to end up in a massive war, aren't we? That's the logical outcome of all of this.

Judge Ali catches Trump DOJ’s attempted fraud on the court storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have been banging on about this since March, but I’ll just say it again since it keeps coming up, this time in Rao’s dissent. The reason Humphrey’s executor didn’t sue for reinstatement should be apparent from the name of the case. Humphrey was dead.

Funny how the case from 1937 specifically upholding the constitutionality of the NLRA is completely missing from the 5th Circuit's opinion.

And specifically upheld 88 years ago by the Supreme Court in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, 301 U.S. 1 (1937): "[T]he order of the Board was within its competency, and that the Act is valid as here applied." What's the difference? They aren't scared of workers/strikes anymore.

BigLaw was never going to save us. The tiny bit of good work they did was always just marketing to paper over their primary role: getting paid a lot of money to make the world worse.

the court is corrupt.

The Supreme Court allowing Trump to gut the Department of Education without explanation on the shadow docket shows what a colossal fumble letting SCOTUS reform go to the wayside was. If dems win in 2028, this court will allow the GOP to destroy what they rebuild once back in power.

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.

It’s the way his voice broke when he said “imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers” 😣😣 As the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers and an immigration expert, I have this exact fear. They’re kidnapping and abusing our loved ones. How else are we expected to respond? Thank you, @padilla.senate.gov