It's been abundantly clear for a while that Trump and the US fascist movement don't care about free speech in the slightest. What they care about is *protected hate speech*.

Todd Blanche is now warning lawyers who criticize Trump's Justice Department: The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.

It’s cute how 2004 thought the bar couldn’t get lower.

The Fourteenth Amendment was rock-solid for 150 years, and now it’s apparently just a suggestion like “don’t microwave fish in the office.”

The fact that they even took this case shows how hollowed out the Supreme Court has become. It is plain as day in the Constitution that birthright citizenship shall not be infringed.

So far it seems that the Supreme Court has decided that President Donald Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants.

The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

It's a fox news thing

This should not be happening to anyone. What on earth could justify manhandling a tiny little woman who quite clearly didn't do anything wrong at all and posed no threat to anyone? These guys are drunk on power. ICE needs to be disbanded and frankly most of them should be in jail.

The video of her arrest, via the @miamiherald.com bsky.app/profile/prem...

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Even if she had "hesitated to show her ID" (and apparently she didn't), you don't have to show your fucking papers in the United States. That's what you had to do in fucking Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Fuck these fuckers forever. May each and every one of them rot in hell.

He lied. All this other verbiage is unnecessary. He lied.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

I'll say what I said before. Put all Article III judges on a single level, have all of them hear trial, appellate and supreme court cases.

Louisiana paroled nine prisoners to deport them. We found that at least two have been deported, while two others are being held at a new immigration detention facility. But neither ICE nor the Landry admin would answer questions about the other five. With @veritenews.org

It was the number one economy on Earth when Biden was president, too. Our economic recovery from the pandemic was the envy of the world.

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

Your daily reminder that peace and unity in Europe will only come with a Russian defeat. It's almost like this is Europe's war of independence. Either we disappear or we win. There isn't really any middle ground.

Best gift to the moderate center parties in Europe. Nobody here wants to be associated with the American regime.

JD Vance is a great gift to European unity and center-liberal parties. He could personally destroy every right-wing party in Europe just by visiting and endorsing them.

There is not one Ukraian who is not well informed about the security guarantees Ukriane got in the Budapest Memorandum. Nothing but ironclad guarantees will pass, but such don't exist in real life. The only guarentee is a defeated Russia.

Steve has a point....

So true.

Have you seen the annual pass for NPS? It’s got his face on it

Funny you should mention it

Tacky ass un-American anti-republican pre-1776 royalist trash. We don't do the f----- King's Birthday here. He's about half a step away from putting his face on all the coins and stamps.

When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days. www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...

I woke up this morning to see that many states across the country have decided to #REJECT the decision to scrap the #HBV vaccine birth dose by #ACIP. Here are some (alt-text included). But who will be left behind? 1/

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.

I wish this were an exaggeration of the new US National Security Strategy. It isn’t. The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right. ‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.

That's not how peace agreements work. Getting something on a promise of payment and then not paying is, however, exactly how Donald Trump works. Ukraine and European NATO/the EU would be extremely foolish to fall for this. kyivindependent.com/us-to-discus...

One of my students years ago said to me after I made the class watch this one: “thanks a lot, Professor, now I’m going to need therapy”

Here’s @rikefranke.bsky.social’s analysis (🧵). She’s a bit more careful than I am in my hot (and angry) take, but she, too, notes that the U.S. is now actively trying to influence European politics.+

The Trump administration wants to help “its political allies” on the far Right “restore their former greatness.” Just a reminder that the last time that they were in power across the continent was the 1930s & 40s. Tucker Carlson notwithstanding, I maintain that that period wasn’t all that great.

I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Interesting stats.

Translation: I was paid to lie before.

Is that another “we think the term _________ means something different” deals? They argued for years that “Shall” doesn’t mean what most reasonable people think it does (and they seem to keep getting away with it).

JUST IN: DOJ files 1-page Noem, Blanche declarations on Alien Enemies Act deportations being investigated by Judge Boasberg as potential contempt of court. Basically a stonewall, saying the legal advice is privileged storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For those who are missing the point, this ain't a defense of Nuzzi. It shows there are still some safeguards in media when someone is grossly unethical. It's a criticism of Kennedy and more importantly, Congress for not doing its job on oversight. Bill Cassidy can't be bothered to criticize RFK Jr.

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.