this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Dred Scott was 1857. Lincoln was elected in 1860, war started immediately after he took office, he ignored DS as invalid, the slave power was militarily crushed, and the Constitution was amended to explicitly overturn it. You could hardly pick a worse "liberals didn't fight hard enough" example.

It’s a bit of a constitutional hole that that the deterrent we’ve developed for illegal searches (suppression of evidence) doesn’t really apply to immigration proceedings

Whatever makes this administration feel pain I guess, but its funny to see Wall Street freak out the most about the thing Trump has the least ability to actually do (unilaterally set cc interest rates via EO)

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

If a new president unilaterally does a huge DHS reduction in force in Jan 2029, none will collect & it will create a lot of budget capacity for better uses.

FYI for folks: FOP isn’t the union for Minneapolis PD. They aren’t even the primary org that lobbies on behalf of cops in MN. That’s the MPPOA, which Minneapolis also isn’t a part of (or wasn’t, back in the day) The union that represents most cops in MN is LELS.

A lot depends on his level of focus but I think one way this ends is that we bulk up the existing military presence to the point where Trump can think we run Greenland (like how we “run” Venezuela) but not so much that Europe feels as if it has actually been invaded

I seem to recall something about how a statue that cut off funds like this was an unconstitutional “gun to the head”

I kind of feel like another, more subtle sign of Trump's decline is that he actually used to get a bit annoyed when people started getting *too* sycophantic. It was a high bar but even for him there was a point where the flattery become over the top and annoying. Don't think that's true anymore.

It’s got to be because they’re trying to play the role of hometown paper who covered him in the 80s but it’s *extremely fucking weird* how basically every NYT Trump story has a real estate reference no matter the situation or context

Whipped dogs lol

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Great news although I could have sworn the initial coverage said she had already been removed to Mexico, which I thought was strange. That does not appear to have happened, fortunately.

They will not be in power forever and there's no statute of limitations for murder.

It's a grotesque answer but amorality aside, I feel like they're making a political miscalculation by assuming Americans have the same level of affinity for immigration officers as they do for local cops.

I am not sure what the purpose of Senate ratification is if any president can simply withdraw unilaterally from any treaty

The gasp-laugh I made at this is something I couldn’t reproduce if I tried

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Evergreen skeet

According to the administration’s written policy, Maduro could have avoided being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States if he had simply entered illegally.

The thing is, if they actually manage to limit this action to grabbing Maduro and getting out, they probably avoid a public opinion hit because it won’t *feel* like a real war to most people. Load bearing “if” obviously.

“It’s not a war; it’s a police action” is such a classic of the genre

The Panama invasion must have been a useful precedent when they needed to get final sign off from the president whose brain stopped taking in new information in the 80s

the trump asprin thing is so funny to me because he basically gave himself hemophilia. like oh if you can't get it from inbreeding in the european monarchy because you are new money, storebought is also available

Okay the IDs are fine it’s just that DHS is lying

IMO within the Rebel Alliance there should be a split between the ex-Separatists who keeps holograms of Dooku on their desks, and the Republicans who see the CIS as the aggressors (at worst, war criminals) who attacked the institutions of liberal democracy at a pivotal moment.

wow so it really took less than a year to sink dreams of a third Trump term huh www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

This is a worthwhile thread, but I think the kicker is that the same media dynamic also pushes the Right to overplay their hand: by launching a racist broadside against the whole Somali population. Which then lets Dems sidestep the awkward fraud conversation as they defend a maligned community.

The next Dem president is going to have to hire about 1000 new DoJ attorneys anyway, might as well set up a whole office to investigate and prosecute ICE agents

I see we’ve settled on “unsteady ceasefire” as the face-saving euphemism for the peace that we prematurely declared

This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship. I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.

Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.

Even if she wasn’t a citizen, and even if she really did have a removal order, this would be a very fast removal. Assuming it’s true, that means someone made a point to see it through quickly

A permanent vibescession probably isn’t great for the long term health of our political system. Hopefully it’s something else!

Sneaking into the Heritage American meeting with my English ancestry (Jewish guy who came over from London around 1915)

Lol

This is what they're doing lmao thank u donnie trump for taking money the troopies were supposed to get tax free and making it subject to taxes

John Roberts has made his ruling, let him bust her out

Most importantly, they have to win in front of real federal judges, not fake IJs

you can tell JD’s been stewing in Euro/UK/Canada immigration discourse too much because no American’s primary complaint about undocumented immigrants is that they contribute too little to housing supply. You hear it more in countries with more public housing & fewer immigrants in construction

School today sent out a message saying to be careful because there was ICE IN THE PARKING LOT and then had to hastily send a clarifying followup that they meant the frozen water, not immigration enforcement.

gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law

On the other hand, they think entering without inspection is a serious offense so we’ll see

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

By its own terms it does no such thing

It’s not good when a federal judge refers to your attempted nunc pro tunc statement of “Oopsie doodles we fucked up 6 years ago by not actually issuing the required order and you caught us so we’re gonna try it again” as an “Order” - with the quotation marks around it every time it’s mentioned.

IJs are fake judges but some are more fake than others