There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

I wonder how Marjorie Taylor Greene feels, knowing she got played by Steve Bannon & Jeffrey Epstein with their QAnon Save the Children BS

Yikes.

Unlike Supreme Court Justices, the rest of the fed’l judiciary is governed by canons of ethics. Among other things, they’re not supposed to attend political events & should avoid even an appearance of impropriety. joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-e...

Essential @hcrichardson.bsky.social deep dive on Human Rights Day and how far the world leader on it has fallen in just one year heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...

Tough prediction.

Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

Trump v. Slaughter is poised to be a landmark step on this country’s turn away from democratic governance and good government in favor of oligarchy and despotism. trib.al/ZIVkHge

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

"During a Dec visit to Washington, Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said.

This is truly terrifying as the U.S. sells out the West.

The neediest man in the world...

I have no doubt about what a clinical psychiatrist would say about this.

Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected." Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.

The 200 deaths per day come from fentanyl (that's a 2023 number, in the last year of Biden it was reduced to about 140 per day). Total quantity of fentanyl entering the US from Venezuela: zero (0). In other words, the entire pretext for this war rests on a lie.

A wow of a column by the conservative George Will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

1/Hegseth is now boosting posts claiming the “kill everybody” reporting is a “lie.” At the same time, he frames the strike as Bradley’s decision. He is publicly removing himself from the chain of causation while placing responsibility on the operational commander.

This 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders.

Listen! www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/they-are-f...

It was always going to be "If MAGA people were involved, it couldn't have been *that* bad, right?", wasn't it?

The blame has been shifted to a top naval officer.

The predicate for the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, which in turn is the predicate for his trial on charges of capital homicide.

Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”

Is Admiral Frank Bradley the person who will be tried for war crimes in the Caribbean? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'm shocked but somewhat pleased the mainstream media is going all Watergate on the Hegseth war crimes in the Caribbean. "Morning Joe" (yes, I know, don't @ me) has talked about little else for 2 hours I'm not 100% convinced that this is the turning point but it might be, with Trump at just 36%

It is true that no one has grasped this scope. But there are ways to deal with it. First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign. Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.

Trump’s Crony Diplomacy by Federico Fubini. Witkoff ⁦and Kushner⁩ are not engaging in peace negotiations, the Dim-Witt “Peace” plan is nothing more than a corrupt business development scheme. Following up on the major WSJ exposé.

Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.

Rest in peace.

In case you missed yesterday's great news!

A horror.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t working for the US, or for humanity. He’s working for Vladimir Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

JD Vance began to align himself with the Kremlin only a few months after the RIS recruitment campaign of Peter Thiel ran its course with a series of furtive meetings in Austria.

You can't make it up.

The BBC's kowtowing to trump is a direct result of trump's blackmail.

Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sadly, it’s easier to find examples of media organizations capitulating to Trump than standing up to him. The press should not make itself complicit in its own denigration at the hands of Trump.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is usually right so pay attention.

Wow.

Hilarious and incredible.

Some thoughts on the Ukraine peace process. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...

May I remind everyone: on February 23, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called the 2022 Istanbul draft a “guidepost” for future Ukraine-Russia talks. This man is dangerously aligned with Russian interests, and holds far too much sway in what's being called a ‘peace process.’ This is extortion.

Pope Leo's message is simple: Treat people humanely and with dignity.

Trump's epitaph. Even among lowlifes, he's considered a lowlife.

Today, @washingtonpost.com is hosting a Global Women’s Summit. Meanwhile, the @postguild.bsky.social is protesting and raising awareness about the fact that the Washington Post illegally fired me, its only Black woman opinion columnist, for doing my job. Salute to the Guild. Shame on the Post.

"Kids will get sick because of what the CDC just did. Some of them will die. But the even bigger story is that the U.S. government is no longer a reliable source of information." Trump's messes can be fixed; maybe not this man's. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: