WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

Cook Political poll find Prop 50 up 50% to 34% among registered voters in California: www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...

Why does Trump think he's going to get away with jacking up health premiums on families by 75% in order to fund a giant tax cut for his billionaire pals? Because he thinks his campaign to repress free speech will keep us quiet. But he's wrong. We are fighting back.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours. There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds. Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Blumenthal to Bondi: "He has been transparent. In fact, 5 days before the indictment of Comey, he put this post up as instructions to you. He didn't mince words. He was very open & public that you should indict Comey and&others because they are 'guilty as hell, no more delay, now.' 5 days before"

Durbin: "What's happening in Illinois is outrageous. To think they're going to federalize the Texas National Guard and send them into my state is not only necessary, it's almost criminal."

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Donald Trump's "golden age" is feeling suspiciously similar to the final moments before the Great Depression, so let's start there. Listen to Andrew Ross Sorkin on the LP podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiLFRZS-QGM

The right is doing themselves a disservice, because when we’re finally past this nonsense, and we will be, they’ll never again be able to claim they stand for the Constitution, states’ rights, law and order, separation of church and state, free speech, or protecting kids. Ever.

"This escalation of violence is targeted and intentional and pre-meditated," Illinois Gov. Pritzker says of the Trump admin.'s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. "Trump's deranged depiction of Chicago ... was just complete BS."

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“Don’t buy the canard that this is retaliation for Democratic intransigence, or that shutdowns grant the executive branch vast new powers. Vought has advocated this sort of illegal rescission for years, including as the lead author of Project 2025.”

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime. Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

In that way, it’s little different than Republican oligarch Harlan Crow bribing Clarence Thomas for Thomas’s willingness to say things that Harlan Crow likes.

knows that Substack’s founders are lying about this. There are no new media business models except sucking up to rightwing billionaires. Getting paid off by Republican oligarch Larry Ellison isn’t a new business model! It’s a bribe to Bari Weiss for her willingness to say things Ellison likes.

From Substack. 😂😂 You too can have a successful media business!!! [If rightwing oligarchs spend tens of billions for decades promoting bullshit culture war issues, and you’re willing to embrace the bullshit and align against American democracy] Anyone in the media biz with half a brain…

Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.

Yes. More broadly: There are no absolute powers in the United States Constitution of *separated institutions sharing powers.* The president is commander in chief...but Congress can and does make all sorts of laws specifying what the military will be and how it will operate.

No. The opposite is true: Safe seat members face strong incentives to follow centrist quantbrain/status quo pablum and stay silent in the face of the collapse of US democracy. This is easy to see: Raskin trying to squash talk of impeachment; Jeffries telling his caucus to be quiet on Abrego Garcia

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges) time.com/7323442/sout...

Mike Johnson on spiking healthcare premiums: "They've been saying that some of the insurance companies will be sending out notices in early November. The last time I checked it's October 6. We have the entire month of October."

BREAKING: Illinois sues the Trump administration over National Guard deployment to Chicago, saying the move is causing 'irreparable harm' to the state.

NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump from sending National Guard soldiers to Portland, after already blocking him over the weekend. She said the administration appeared to be sidestepping her previous order by deploying troops from California and Texas in the city.

Every Republican who stands by while Trump dangerously escalates this conflict with Democrat-led cities and states is complicit in his crimes.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon. The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's California National Guard deployment in Portland a day after making the same ruling on Oregon's troops. https://cnn.it/48NC3G3

MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

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This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Two immigrants and two white men who married immigrants that claim to hate immigrants. Not one shred of irony.

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

Trump is bankrupting farmers, spiking prices for small biz and working families, and creating chaos in American cities. And he still has time for a round of golf!

EXACTLY. And you're the majority, no matter what Trump's people say.