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Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

Our generals serve the country, not an ex-Fox News clown looking for headlines.

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

BINGO!

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

See the difference? 👀

This is very, very bad.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

The largest immigrant detention camp in U.S. history, Fort Bliss, has violated at least 60 federal standards. Detainees have been denied medical screenings, cut off from loved ones and attorneys, and even given meds without consent. This isn’t safety. It’s abuse. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social

Stephen Miller has never worked a job outside of politics in his entire life.

This is a good argument for abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and replacing it with a number of smaller, independent agencies; or another umbrella organization without such a fascistic name.

Of which there was none, obviously not, because the entire idea that the situation was going to end up like The Raid is a fantasy.

Every big city in the US is going to experience this at some point.

She’s an icon, she's a legend and she is the moment, now come on now ✨

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

The shutdown is here. It's built on a giant lie.

My favorite excerpt of this is Bill Burr apparently not knowing that Saudi Arabia is a major American ally.

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

Gov. Pritzker: "ICE is running around harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago that was illegal in the United States. Now, #ICE is making it commonplace. That’s not making America great."

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

So DOJ went to a federal grand jury and failed. Rather than giving up, they went to a local DC grand jury (possible due to DC’s status) on the same charge, and that grand jury indicted. Now DOJ is trying to move the case *back* to federal court. The judge is like… that doesn’t seem legal, brief it.

This photo just about sums it up

I called Speaker Mike Johnson's office saying he needs to immediately swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.). The aide hung up on me! WOW!

HERE: Just now, Trump admits it: “A lot of good can come from a shutdown. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be democrat things.”

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Nothing I read in that passage seems even illegal to me. Cruel, yes. Unnecessary, yes. Arbitrary, yes. But illegal? No. I want to have a system where, if an option for legal status is present and viable, even if a person is currently out of status, it would be illegal to do that.

This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.

CNBC: Is it true that you want to restore American taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. JEFFRIES: This is also an outright lie. Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to provide medical coverage to undocumented individuals. That's the law.

This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity. This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

Climate change may be the single greatest geopolitical wild card of the next century — a reshaping of countries' agricultures, economies, and even literal geography. And here a guy who never rose above the rank of Major says the U.S. military shouldn't even consider it. We are screwed.

This guy thinks he's George Patton but in reality he's Dolores Umbridge.

We have our next possible political prosecution from the Trump Admin; Kristi Noem says she has referred former TSA head David Pekoske for prosecution for, uhhhhhhh..... something? I *think* this is in reference to Tulsi Gabbard ending up on the Quiet Skies watchlist, but who knows!

Man who has read one (1) book on history: "as history teaches us." Also, look, I know it's not the point, but EVERYONE deserves peace. You don't have to "earn" peace. It should be the default!

"War is Peace" is one of the three core slogans of the fascist government in 1984, and it's pretty damn chilling to see the Secretary of Defense demanding that the U.S. Armed Forces adopt it as truth. George Orwell wrote that book as a cautionary tale drawing on, yes, history!

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"ICE tactics inflame tensions" is exactly the correct way to report on this. It's not Gavin Newsom calling the admin authoritarian that are radicalizing people against ICE, it's their own actions, which are being met with fear and horror.

Impeachment-level scandals every damn day.

Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A reminder to law students and anyone else who needs it: failure to cite to, attempt to distinguish, and/or call for the overruling of on point negative precedent is sanctionable. In normal times these lawyers should lose their admission to SCOTUS, and risk losing their licenses for such conduct.

He came here at age 13 more than 20 years ago. He got his first ever criminal arrest in August this year, a DUI arrest which got him on ICE’s radar. And they’re treating him like this.

Dear lord this footnote about Kari Lake: her "brazen disinterest in the unambiguous statutory obligations implicates her competence to implement the President’s directives in a manner consistent with fundamental tenets of administrative law."