There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

Another deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. Like previous ones: -targeted based on proven liars saying “drug traffickers” without presenting any evidence -illegal under both US and int’l law -where US forces aren’t under threat and can interdict -bad strategy if actually against traffickers

Taking a swipe at the white gamer bros who support the Republican party is an interesting choice. But, while we're here, Medicaid is intened for people who CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE. What you do, or don't do, SHOULDN'T MATTER when it comes to getting health care.

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police" they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

The good news is that the Supreme Court still refused to hear this case. The bad news is that three justices seem eager to force every public school in the country to out trans kids to their parents, and it only takes one more vote to put a future case on the docket that lets the court do so.

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown. “We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

#ShutDown #GOP

🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

You could in theory have a Court that was very conservative, even way too Trump-friendly, but that wasn't like this. As it stands, there's no hiding that these just aren't very bright people and they don't really know what they're doing.

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes. But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

By the time of James' arraignment on October 24, DOJ will EITHER have dismissed Jim Comey's case, OR the evidence that Halligan was unlawfully appointed AND the evidence that EDVA knew they had no probable cause against Comey will be public. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Perry is now taking on the idea that Trump's decision is not subject to judicial review. She says 10 USC 12406 permits federalization of guard troops in three instances, "not whenever he determines when one of them is met," Perry says.

1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%. Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%

Wells: "This case is replete with evidence of bad faith, of an abandonment of public virtue, of a lack of honest devotion to the public interest and of a grave risk of usurpation or wanton tyranny."

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats. "Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago. She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents." Hamilton: "No, your honor."

Perry is asking whether the law could be triggered by Illinois' sanctuary status. Hamilton: "Well, so, it's a hypothetical. It's very different from the situation here." Perry: "It's not. It's not a hypothetical." She notes AG Pam Bondi has suggested just that.

I have taken the freedom of speech that was in the Constitution and which you were probably using for peaceful protest Forgive me the courts said they were so agitating and so irritating

The government's lack of a plan prompted Comey's counsel, Fitzgerald, to say that the prosecution "put the cart before the horse." Usually, you figure out classified information issues in consultation w/ DOJ's national security division *before* bringing a case, he said. bsky.app/profile/anna...

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

He's absolutely correct. This is not a both sides thing, this is a right wing domestic terrorism inspired and encouraged by the leader of the republican party and amplified by all of its members thing.

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

"It cannot be the case that DHS officers are given carte blanche" to respond to protests with whatever force they deem necessary, Ellis says. Ellis says that based on available evidence, it's possible that plaintiffs could show 1A and 4A violations by DHS.

DOJ argues about ICE officers being doxxed. Ellis responds at length, discussing doxxing and threats faced by judges and acknowledging how horrible it is, but says "that doesn't mean that you then get to do this job and be anonymous. ... Under the rule of law, it is important to be transparent."

Stephen Miller is trying to sell this, which means Stephen miller has someone he needs to sell this to.

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

DOJ: President determined in June that CA NG had to be federalized, and ... Judge: Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Hamilton, if it were the case that you could federalize NG in one place and simply send to another place where pres doesn't have authority to federalize NG, what would purpose of 12406 be?

(2/2) No doubt history will speak to the MAGA cult; how easily they were gaslit; embraced the most flawed cult leader ever; rallied around grievance; railed against their own interest; fell for an obvious con. But the unforeseen disaster - the biggie - is the media's wide normalization of a madman.

Trump: "Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists... The governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives."* *Not a single word of this is true.

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Held: Trump's statements about Portland were "not 'conceived in good faith." Chides defendants for "ignoring the facts on the ground."

this is also white nationalist framing straight from the Jim Crow era, as if Joy Reid citizenship is a gift from Vance, whose belonging is of course unquestioned it’s what @profkori.bsky.social would call “know your place aggression”

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

People in right wing bubbles tell each other recurring stories over and over and stick their fingers in their ears when confronted with contradictory evidence. And they look to each other for validation.