The Department of Defense is reportedly offering Anthropic an ultimatum: let us use your technology for whatever we want, or else. No company should be forced to be a tool of civil liberties violations.

"I was detained for writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts," writes Rümeysa Öztürk. "My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression."

A Speaker of the House who bills himself as a "constitutional lawyer" is answering a basic questions about the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement by chuckling and saying that Republicans would "never go along" with it

Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant? MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone

One common response to Moltbot is something like "We're so cooked." We are pretty cooked. Not because Moltbots will bootstrap us to the Singularity. Just because people readily turn their hard drives and personal info over to programs they don't understand. www.zdnet.com/article/molt...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Haven't read the paper, but you can take most issues and find that the Republican justices are voting more conservatively over time and that the Court is increasingly polarized. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

The cost of DHS and ICE activity is a feature, not a bug.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Maxwell also told Blanche she specifically did not believe Trump spent any time at Epstein’s house:

Here is how Maxwell answered when DAG Blanche asked about Trump and Epstein:

Super obvious case for the left to embrace privacy (specifically from corporate and police-state surveillance) as a core tenet of its politics

The electoral college is a monstrosity that, among other issues, totally warps how Americans see each other

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

To summarize: the United States is punishing Colombia for pointing out that the United States bombed a distressed Colombian fishing boat in Colombia’s waters?

So much of this was just pundits seeing the Fortune 50 executives they schmooze with lining up behind at Trump at the inauguration

It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.

"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DOJ’s attempts to charge these cases in DC and LA have been resoundingly unsuccessful. Grand juries have rejected a huge proportion of the attempts to indict. One case in LA that went to trial as a misdemeanor recently ended in acquittal

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This is the way (and will lead to huge economic gains for NM)

State collapse.

We're living through Redemption again.

We're still taking our shoes off & can't carry water past airport security because of a thwarted terrorist attack nearly a quarter century ago that killed no one. Last week a terrorist tried to murder hundreds of federal employees and killed an officer and the president hasn't said a word about it.

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

Two-hundred page account of the Trump administration’s effort to arrest, imprison, and deport foreign students who had the audacity to exercise their First Amendment rights. @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/post...

The U.S. Army is being ordered to terrorize the American people.

I know anew outrageous thing happens every day but this is really truly up there. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/27/i...

Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.

A powerful post from @attackerman.bsky.social -- www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...

One thing I think it important to internalize is that the government can act unlawfully and unconstitutionally, as here, without there being any redress in court, as is unlikely here. The Executive Branch is largely supposed to police itself. This one doesn't.

An absolute must-read from @attackerman.bsky.social