Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Turns out if caving to fascists isn’t profitable companies might do less of it. Maybe there’s a lesson there somewhere, dunno www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Not that different from how you get a PhD, except you’ve got to get mad at a paper/book

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Who does the presidential historian think was president in 2020?

It is divine providence when the bullet misses and hits someone else, it is also divine providence if the victim’s body stops it. No matter what happens, it means the same thing.

Setting aside the perpetual confusion about who was president when, Trump wasn't banned by social media platforms because of political bias or to "censor" him. It was because he directly used their services to incite actual deadly violence. He committed literal violent crimes using their websites.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Yes. In "Hitler's American Model," James Q. Whitman wrote about Nazis seeing USA as a blueprint for implementing a legal system of Nordic supremacy. It is quite telling that the Nazi officials also dismissed NYC as "not Real America."

I think if I was teaching strategy, I would be profoundly tempted to make students read this over other military texts as an example of accurately, correctly and clear-sightedly coordinating ends, ways and means. ...and then it is also one of the great works of American rhetoric. Of course.

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Deeply thankful that Merrick Garland preserved the integrity of the Department of Justice. Can you imagine the impropriety if it were perceived to have been used to go after the president’s political rivals?

None of the reporting I've seen says what happened to the $50,000. Does Homan still have it?

"in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language."

We’ve got to get rid of Biden. He’s killing ratings. No one wants to read about an old man. Get Trump back in office. He’ll make news great again, right?

What a devastating indictment of what the Supreme Court has done to the rule of law. Being caught and videoed accepting a bag filled with $50k in a parking lot from undercover FBI agents isn’t enough to prove bribery.

“Magnified questions”? Don’t give Chief Justice John “Major Questions” Roberts any new ideas.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Or just two meetings with Tom Homan.

Also, remember that at this time the administration is targeting a ton of perceived enemies because they may have made a misstatement (or maybe didn't really) on a mortgage application to no actual benefit. “For my friends everything, for my enemies the law”

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The reason the administration is full of people like this is because Trump knows they'll do illegal shit if asked and he can squeeze them if they don't

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

One of the biggest mistakes the Polish resistance made in WWII is that they decamped to allied nations. They made themselves irrelevant, drastically shrunk their influence, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have had on the war at the precise time they needed it most.

All those globe trotting billionaires really appreciate the sacrifice rural GOP voters made to make their third yacht possible.

Is anyone keeping track of all the ways that Trump has created draconian rules, and then sells exceptions to them? I don't think ever seen that mechanism once. Let alone on a near daily basis.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

Pentagon censorship betrays the freedom it is charged to defend. In demanding pre-approval of press coverage, Trump’s Department of War defends only Trump while making the First Amendment the enemy.

Donald Trump and Brendan Carr are putting America on the road to dictatorship.

Yes, using paramilitary forces to indefinitely detain tens of thousands of net producers and scare the hell out of millions more will lead to consumers chasing fewer goods with more dollars, leading to definitely not inflation.

Second use of NATO article 4 in two weeks. Those used to be really rare before, this is the 8th time ever since 1949

We will see what happens next and you can’t put anything past the second trump admin BUT, fwiw, Ayman Soliman’s lawyer sees these developments in and out of court today as nothing but an unequivocal victory in this months long standoff and battle with Team Trump

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

A deeply important read.

Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy. - Umberto Eco

stumbled across an article showing that this year's freshman class at my alma mater is 5% Black, which hasn't been the case since 1968 it prompted me to take another look at the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, & how it's already working as intended ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Not only does this defeat the purpose of tariffs, but by selecting coffee over, say, tea, what we have is the Republican Party essentially acting as a government food and beverage panel, deciding which food and drinks Americans are allowed to enjoy. Instead of the free market.