Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

Fact o morning: Three of the six Nobel Prize winners in the sciences are Americans who are immigrants. www.wsj.com/opinion/nobe...

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

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This pretty much goes for anyone/thing in media, law, Hollywood, academia..

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Greetings from the violent city of Seattle.

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

Quite the headline. Will be forwarding to everyone who told me I was "overreacting."

So the truth is it’s my former political party - the Republican Party - that is the “defund the police” party.👇

One fun fact: Judge Immurgut, who granted the restraining order keeping the OR Nat Guard out of Portland, isn 't just a FedSoc stalwart and Trump appointee. She worked on Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton and personally interrogated Monica Lewinsky.

This right here is Trump's ultimate goal: staying in power

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Fear is all they have. They don’t have respect, or popular ideas, or the support of a majority of Americans. Deny them the power of fear and we win.

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

Historically, the Insurrection Act has only been used in response to genuine emergencies. Some experts believe that if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act simply as a pretext for a military invasion and occupation of multiple blue cities, it would represent a possible violation of norms.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963. It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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.

Deeply embarassed as a member of the CA Bar, as a former law prof, as a former litigator to watch the Attorney General of the U.S. behave in this fashion before Senators with oversight responsibility on her actions. This is not normal. It may not even be normal for Bondi. Miller probably behind it.

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

In Portland they call this ICE fishing! 😂

Some of the response are pretty disgusting. If she had posted on Dec. 7th about remembering the victims of Pearl Harbor, would people be angry that she didn't also talk about us nuking Hiroshima & Nagasaki? Or would they recognize that you can recognize both on different occasions?

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They can't help themselves.

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

This discussion on NPR's 1A with experts on military affairs and civil-military relations did not reassure me at all! the1a.org/segments/if-...

SUE. HIM.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

"Unlike Trump and Hegseth, fascist leaders are fanatically militaristic. And there is nothing fanatical about throwing a military parade, renaming the Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' or purging non-MAGA generals."

Working around the clock? You just gave the Republican House Conference yet another week off during a government shutdown.

A top Trump official accusing federal district court judges, "as a class," of engaging in insurrection is a profoundly dangerous development.

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

Make America Abide by the Constitution and Rule of Law Again

On the verge of a lot of potential Kent State situations out there. Be careful, friends.

just noticed this little detail in Illinois's complaint

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking now at a news conference and says that Trump is working to set a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act. "He wants to justify and normalize the presence of armed soldiers” - Live on MSNBC

Hmmm... weird.