Bring this shit back with a vengeance, and then some

This story got worse and worse and then I get to “Uvalde Police” and I’m just

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest. If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets. Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE. Learn more here:

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

Lawyers for Illinois and Chicago called on the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s “dramatic step of permitting deployment of National Guard troops over Illinois’s objection.” @wttw.bsky.social

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

David Brooks was on Morning Joe today. He was talking about the No Kings protests, and saying that as a conservative, most left protests do not inspire him to join. But the recent No Kings did. It was all those ”normie” grandmas carrying American flags Politics is a game of addition not subtraction

I will make it a personal goal to demand this monstrosity be demolished when our dalliance with fascism ends. We will not be Italy, with its statues and monuments to Mussolini still in public view.

"Even if these boats have drugs on them, there is no enabling legislation, no authorization, that says the President of the United States can decide drug runners are bad and he can kill them anywhere in the world." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.” Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Went to the gym this morning and as I expected the younger MAGATS were whining that ICE and the police didn't open fire on protesters. They wanted blood flowing in the streets. Nope. No way to reconcile with these Nazis...

📌Today I learned Republicans are targeting whales, seals, and polar bears. The ghouls who said boogeymen were going after our cats and dogs, are literally coming after WHALES, SEALS AND POLAR BEARS. 📌I hate them. I mean I FUCKING HATE THEM. There can be no reconciliation with these morbid monsters.

No need to comply substack.com/@howtoresist...

Local activists and organizers were the beating heart of No Kings Day — and they will keep leading the fight on the ground in your community. Use our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local Indivisibles: indivisible.org/groups

That didn't take long. Nachmanoff denies government's motion to expedite privilege review in connection with possible effort to recuse Fitzgerald as Comey's lawyer (which, news flash, isn't going anywhere.)

‼️‼️California‼️‼️ Today is the last day to register to vote for the November 4th election! Make sure you are registered, remind friends and family to check their registrations as well. VOTE YES on Prop 50!!

No Kings Day 2 proved America is still great - just badly in need of adult supervision.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Pedro Pascal at the ‘No Kings’ march in Downtown Los Angeles.

It's the guns 💯%

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

If we are to avert "grossly tyrannical conduct," Illinois v Trump is a "make-or-break" moment for SCOTUS, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

The Pentagon’s gone dark and Johnson’s calling it “transparency” KARL: “The guy’s only had two briefings since he became Secretary of Defense… they’ve basically forced the Pentagon press out of the building…” SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I can’t remember… a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent.”

I’m actually way more than just a little suspicious. I know what he’s doing and I bet you do too.

I wondered when this was going to happen. Ring is too sweet of a surveillance tool not to mine data from

Somehow people who found the goals of the “Tea Party” crystal clear just can’t wrap their heads around what “No Kings” is getting at.

If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Today marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31. Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.

Then Halligan demands post hac “off the record” status and explicitly notes the messages are set to auto erase. As if (1) that means the conversation was off the record (it does not) or (2) that somehow that’s legal for a public servant to do (it’s not, the Federal Records Act prohibits it).

This whole thing is insane. Halligan personally messaging @annabower.bsky.social to demand corrections to reporting based on information Halligan allegedly only knows about but can’t discuss due to GJ secrecy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Clearly Trump lied when he said his $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the White House. So who’s watching this mess; the White House Historical Association or the Office of the Curator? Because someone needs to make sure he’s not bulldozing history for a dance floor.

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You really don't tear a hole in the side of the White House to build a monstrous entertaining space unless you think it's yours until you die

"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Yeah this guy ain’t ever leavin’. @acyn.bsky.social

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

It Kamala had said "within a year he'll pave over the Rose Garden and be bulldozing the east wing of the White House" the media would have mocked her

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

The turnout at No Kings rallies across Illinois’ Ninth District and the country gave me hope for the future of our democracy. Stay tuned for more clips from my conversations with voters!

That guy running the Pentagon would get eaten alive trying to run a Target

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.