A billionaire techbro fascist saying it all out loud!👇

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Footnotes: However, political violence perpetrated by MAGA rioters is fine, and we will compensate them for the convictions and imprisonment they suffered.

Best Twitter riposte of the day

Spoke with @aarontmak.bsky.social of @politico.com on how the fight over "free speech" on technology platforms abroad has changed a lot in the last few years, especially depending on what foreign market you're in. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump gets sanewashed ("oh, he didn't mean what he said"), but he said he's "authorizing full force." "Full force" necessarily includes the same "force" he has repeatedly ordered the military to use off the coast of Venezuela, i.e., killing people on the spot for suspicion of non-capital crimes.

Also, if you DO post Portland at Peace, please indicate where we have permission to share them on Xitter.

Let’s face it, Mike Johnson is as corrupt as Donald Trump. Rep Grijalva must be seated.

Would be nice to send this article to all the generals and admirals gathering at Quantico next week to hear from Pete Hegseth….

The president authorized the use of “full force” against an American city, then went golfing right after.

This is truly unhinged.

Why would files about Amelia Earhart be classified?

SCOOP: Justice Department asks judge to force nonprofit & reporter to post $50,000 bond to get faster release of classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago. Trump order to seek bonds for early injunctions seeps into #FOIA litigation. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

An important tactic Trump learned as a private citizen is that if you’re rich, you can wreck people’s lives with completely frivolous litigation, even if you have no chance of winning. This terrorizes everyone else who might get on your bad side by, say, demanding payment or reporting facts.

It’s rich that Trump thinks people should be indicted for lying. Nobody has to go back five years and twist reality to find Trump lying.

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Six Justices shockingly conclude that it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago. Utterly lawless.

Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company

Because Opus Dei does not believe that the power of the purse and the budget is vested in Congress, notwithstanding what the US Constitution says. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Beijing and the Kremlin seem to believe that with Trump in the White House and Hegseth running the US military establishment, the US is at a point of historical weakness and vulnerability. So the time to invade and absorb Taiwan is now.

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As usual, the Opus Dei court has no problem vesting dictatorial powers inconsistent with the US Constitution in the hands of Trump... the same powers they deny to other presidents.

I called it! And my prize is nothing because of course that's what's going on, the Trump Cabinet is the most shallow, insecure, unqualified, emotional, ignorant, petty collection of mean dolts in the country, so this is what they do at every meeting.

As immigration raids step up, US citizens predicted at risk for detainment. Brett Kavanaugh argued in a major case earlier this month that U.S. citizens face few problems in having their immigration status verified if federal agents apprehend them. His remarks green light detaining US citizens.

Absolutely worth their time and my tax dollars.

An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP

Why do republicans hate veterans

The U.S. military’s openness to the press was never a favor to journalists, but an obligation to a country that asks its sons and daughters to volunteer for service. The Defense Department's new media policy puts that in jeopardy, Nancy Youssef writes. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I know Lindsey Halligan is new at this prosecutor business, but there's far more evidence Ka$h Patel committed a crime in investigating Comey than that Comey did. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer got the wrong FBI Director!

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#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.

Because of Trump’s interrupted reign he is the worst and the second worst president in US history

Sounds like persecution to me!

The weird thing here is Republicans have been brainwashed by their chosen media to think only Democrats are on the list Fine. Release the Epstein Files

Oops. Looks like Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer lied to a judge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

LaMonica McIver managed to get the Comey indictment into her selective prosecution reply submitted ... yesterday. Some quick work. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I argued earlier that DOJ might be hoping that a GJ no-billed poor Lindsey. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/25/w... Didn't happen. Game on.

Notable: "Comey has been indicted on two of three counts sought by prosecutors " abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

Background: * "Domestic terrorism" memo: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... * Comey indictment report: abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

The big news tonight is two-fold — Trump's "domestic terrorism" memorandum and James Comey's reported indictment — and both are signs that Trump's authoritarianism is here. Now. Both situations, though, show how weak Trump actually is. That will be coming tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Just like SCOTUS, Trump HATES that states administrate voting in the US. "How can I be King, if the people can vote against me?"

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