If you think this is bad now, wait until new hires currently in the law enforcement training program — brought in during the admin’s white nationalist recruitment push over the past months — start actually hitting the streets. These are the folks who’ve seen all this and thought “that should be me”

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Is it possible for a court to basically just decline to hear this given how obviously and explicitly politically motivated it is?

Look I know we’re still getting information and it’s never a good idea to overly speculate but I just have to say this is the most “blacks rule” thing I’ve seen in a while

It is entirely unsurprising to me, unfortunately, that we are seeing this in an environment where the administration has worked day in and day out to represent all ICE detainees as horrible monsters who will kill your family

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's defense team cites Trump forcing out the prosecutor who refused to charge Tish James without evidentiary support right from the jump of the last motion to dismiss.

I don’t think the US public quite grasps how corrosive of an effect it has on society at every level for everyone to know that there simply won’t be any investigation or consequence for any malfeasance or corruption when done by the leader’s allies. That’s the real broken windows

I hate that this arbitrary legal distinction matters so much but I wonder if the fact that Israel has now targeted and killed US citizens outside a combat zone will finally push the USG to rein them in more forcefully

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Just for the record there’s no indication that those with already-issued visas would be affected as the order is about petitions (new applications). Also this will be struck down within a week. The confusion, however, is part of the point and the death of immigration by a thousand cuts

This has no force of law. They might do it anyway but he might as well sign an EO unilaterally changing the tax brackets

No, he’s not. Same as the gold card or whatever, there are actual laws that undergird these things. Trump has a lot of authority but it is not limitless

Someday, once order has been reestablished and the walls start closing in, Trump and Miller and Noem and Bondi and the rest of them will screech "save us!" and there won't be anyone left to care

I guess this will just be chalked up to healing and reaching across the aisle and whatever but this is bluntly a spit in the face to a lot of people

i'm so tired

Luv 2 spend my early afternoon trying to track down members of the 1998 Salt Lake City Council. Journalism is so fun :)

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Had missed that among Homeland Security's latest slate of proposed visa rules is a provision that would limit international journalist visas to a laughable 240 days (just 90 for Chinese nationals), which is a very easy way for the administration to shut down critical coverage by foreign journalists

Throw another thing on the rapidly growing pile of developments that the entire mainstream media and political apparatuses would have deemed you hysterical for even bringing up a year ago

Well, never mind, I guess

I see a lot of “they’re acting like there’s never going to be another Dem president” discourse and while this probably is actually their goal, they also know that if there ever is, odds are good they’ll immediately pivot to “healing the wounds of division” and not holding anyone accountable

I had the pleasure of writing Mahmoud Khalil’s entry in the @newrepublic.com’s Heroes of the Resistance issue. The administration’s latest actions to try to derail his life are unfortunately only further evidence of the steep cost of holding to his principles

On the issue of Board of Immigration Appeals purges, here is the current composition of the Board by what administration appointed them, counting temporary members: - Bush: 2 - Obama: 2 - Trump: 13

If Trump can successfully fabricate this staggeringly ridiculous pretext for stripping permanent residence from Khalil, they can do it to me or anyone they don’t like. How the federal judge responds will have broad implications for whether even green card holders may speak freely in this country

“Ha ha we might just straight up murder you from the sky!”

Setting aside everything else it’s just astounding to me from a pure practical perspective that “let’s do exactly what we’ve been doing for thirty years and which at this point has failed so abjectly that we’re in legitimate danger of collapse” is a message that gets any traction, anywhere

I will say it is kind of amusing whenever one of the people MAGAworld put in place to be party hatchet men turn out to have at least one (1) Actual Principle and they’re like “what the fuck man we were all lying about that”

So many observers pointed out long ago that the TikTok China panic had nothing to do with national security and was really about handing control of Gen Z's favored narrative-shaping platform to far-right oligarchs and they were absolutely right

As ever, the most lucrative path in media is to be a complete unscrupulous grifter

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Trump orders the military to murder another group of people in international waters. We don't, of course, have any way to confirm whether these were drug traffickers or just, say, migrants, and even if they were the former, they're civilians under the law. This is a crime

One of the few remaining columnists giving any ideological diversity to the WaPo opinion section

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The U.S. government is using tariffs and the Magnitsky Act to seek impunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who orchestrated a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8, 2023, in an effort to subvert the popular will,” writes President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

I understand the reasons some people stay on Twitter but I think they are clearly, obviously outweighed by the reasons not to

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

That the “free speech” crowd has launched into even more frothing demands for speech crackdown while using their platform to lie constantly, brazenly about both Kirk and the shooter—who very much seem to be one of theirs—should jolt centrists out of any sense these people can be accommodated

Serious people are going to spend weeks trying to parse something that can’t be parsed. There’s probably no signal here, just noise, a guy engaging in political assassination for the bit, which is not something we’re really equipped to contend with as a society

Someone in my neighborhood is going *hard* on the bagpipes, which would in itself be a little unusual but is especially so given that I live in Harlem

How would you even begin to explain this to a normie. I just cannot believe we are in the era of meme political assassins and mass shooters doing it for the clout. Hell’s empty and all the demons are here

Truly well beyond parody

Good opportunity to repost one of my old memes

The thing is it's almost certainly unconstitutional to take this type of action based on First Amendment-protected speech, but there is literally no appeals process for most visa denials and the discretionary nature of most immigration benefits grants means people can be denied w/o real explanation

I was waiting for someone to write this, I didn't think it'd be 404 but I will gladly take it

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is