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I get this sentiment but, like. All elected Democrats did was say things? And to the extent the rest of us are Democrats who did something, like, what am I supposed to do? I'd cancel my ICE subscription if I could, trust me.

Would normally recommend [email protected] but she did just post about being on vacation, so maybe not if anything pops off this weekend

@portlandmercury.com is probably a decent start at least. Independent well established newspaper. I'm sure there's been Drama at some point about them because it's Portland and that's how Portland do, but they're still gonna be a good jumping off point

Funniest thing about some of these comedians is signing this agreement when their schtick is how they can't say anything anymore.

Good journalists who cover portland to follow?

Glad to see there is fundamental disquiet with the tariffs generally that a single (illegal) aid package won't fix.

Nah, it is actually more complicated than that, and this is also just as racist reducing a people with various roots to being of one single mind.

There is also the assumption that everyone in Dearborn of Middle Eastern descent is Muslim. That is also not true. Quite a few, although a minority, are Christian. The priest at the Episcopal Christ Church Dearborn, Fr. Halim, is Arab-American and presides over Eucharists in both English and Arabic.

100% And no candidate even got a majority of the vote in Dearborn. Meanwhile *Gestures at the rest of Michigan* It's MAGA land outside of a few large enclaves, because of white voters.

Among the many things that annoy me about discussions of Dearborn is the assumption that all its residents are of MENA descent. As part of the 45% that isn’t, I can tell you that’s not true. And there were plenty of Trump signs in my mostly non-MENA neighborhood.

Hell, let's throw in the other Muslim majority city in Michigan where I happen to live (and went for Harris, btw). If every single voter HERE had also voted for Harris, guess what? Wouldn't have made a difference. And our mayor did endorse Trump, unlike Dearborn's.

Sorry I'm just gonna have to start blocking people who call out Dearborn for going for Trump by all of +6% in 2024 if I don't see anything about, like, Macomb in their posting history.

Yep, it's September 2025 and we're still doing Dearborn dog whistles. The city didn't side with shit, and no one ever talks about how the people who voted for Trump most likely did it because they were affluent, not because they were Arab or Muslim.

Essential context for what is happening in Portland and Trump's declaration of war against us. Note that it's *local law enforcement* accusing the feds of incitement.

Don't have the text yet but looks like my Rep Thanedar has introduced a (good but doomed to fail) bill to restore medical care for transitioning service members. www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

This is exactly why I argue in The Originalism Trap for a different model of constitutional interpretation. We've seen repeatedly that even the most straightforward text can get robbed of meaning, thus robbing us of justice. So we also need to think about how to read that text and what to do with it

Would feel waaaaay better about this if Trump weren't still polling at like 40%

A lot of people were baffled by Musk's "culturally Christian" comment and while it is absurd it is not at all unique to him.

Is there some particular reason Trump hates Portland so much? Is it because the protests against him were particularly strong there in 2020?

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

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This headline makes him sound, I think, more inflammatory than the actual quote: “I think there are far better representations of the concerns of Jewish New Yorkers than the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt,” Mamdani said in an interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Unfiltered.

An anecdote: when RBG died I told my doctor my depression had gotten worse and she very much steered away from discussing anything political. Now I kind of have to steer -her- away from politics. So, you know, people care.

Well don't I feel stupid

SCOTX has issued proposed rule amendments removing the ABA from accrediting law schools in Texas. www.txcourts.gov/media/146135...

This is the least vocally pro-immigration period for Democrats in my entire political life, despite public opinion towards immigration actually rising since Trump took office. What the fuck world is he living in lol?

Aight, back to Hades (the first one, which I just started playing) which will surely offer me an escape from hell.

Fuuuuuuuuuck I'm gonna have to learn Linux.

Today's been a bit of a wash, with finding out that Hegseth isn't planning a purge but also finding out that Article I is dead.

Ah, see; Biden should have said he was forgiving student loans as part of his foreign policy and then it would have been all good. Easy goof to make.

The $3,000 cash thing is such an obvious tell that they're fabricating justifications after the fact. Not illegal, and a weird detail to include unless you're a cop trained to come up with probable cause for an unrest (large amount of cash as evidence of criminal enterprise).

People thought I was absurd for giving hypos where Biden should have just ignored SCOTUS, but rejecting the plain text of a statute with no explanation is one such case. Anyway, hope we get a chance for a Dem president to live that hypo again.

They will *never* actually tie their hands such that they can't strike down a future Democratic president who tries pulling this shit.

When we get out of this, it will be because of our great fortune that the administration itself is made up of the dumbest people on the planet.

Tapping the sign

Is this “a legal enterprise”?

Like this has to factor into calculus for whether a deal is worth it. I dunno, maybe they shut down and SCOTUS blesses Trump keeping shit open as he pleases. Not sure that's significantly different than letting him rescind funding mandates.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

I'm very glad SCOTUS has let Dems know they're blessing impoundment before the shutdown, though.

Fuck yeah let's go find out whether this SCOTUS wants to say federal law enforcement is immune from state prosecution for breaking state laws

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

Welp. They're going with the impoundment control act precludes recipients of funds from suing for impoundment. Christ man.

Been waiting for that Friday evening SCOTUS dump. Fucking hacks.

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress. I’ll post the link when it’s up.

bull fucking shit lol

So of course they end up being burned by a 'seriousness,' bc, @purrtah.bsky.social notes, whenever they lose theyre supposed to go thru a struggle session about why they suck & are hated but when Rs lose theres no expectation that they change to attract voters in deep blue states.

Sinclair didn't back down to the bully, Sinclair is the sniveling little sycophant that hangs out with the bully, eggs him on, and picks up his scraps.

highway may not be the infrastructure analogy you were looking for.

They don’t want ABC to sell the rights to another channel in their market, or to invoke the likely termination right ABC has for their local franchises.