Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson. Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million. This week, Trump returned the favor. Follow along for details.

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

I asked Oregon AG Dan Rayfield if he'd like to see national Democratic leaders stand up and denounce Trump's deepening lawlessness in a more comprehensive, unified, and forceful way. He basically says yes, we need something like this right now. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Just in: Michael Flynn earned ~$577/hour from his America's Future nonprofit in 2023—$60k for just 2 hours/week of work. And his consultancy got another $155k from the group, per newly public tax filings.

A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.

After delivering his opinion in the case, Young then ends by inviting the anonymous sender to stop by the courthouse: “It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive…”

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3241):

There is a mistaken impression in Democratic circles that Trump's invasion of our cities and trampling of our rights and freedoms is popular. It isn't:

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

From Immergut opinion: "Pres is certainly entitled “a great level of deference ..But a great level of deference is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. Must reflect a colorable assement w/in a range of honest judgment. The President’s determination was simply UNTETHERED TO THE FACTS."

Immergut opinion cool-headed and understated but absolute bullseye on most important question, and I mean in multiple settings, of deference to his findings, which Ninth Circuit says must be given. Still must be w/in a "range of honest judgment," and this isn't. Delicate way of saying he's a liar.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636037/ Please buy my book. Since I’m unemployed and all.

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3237):

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3232): I'd like to think this would be the sign. But the first 3000 since December 2020 didn't seem to do it, so I'm not confident.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3229):

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3228):

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3217-20):

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3216):

Uhhh those helmets look familiar...

I don't have any words left. The people entrusted with defending our Constitution have a short time left during which to decide whether or not that duty means anything to them. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject authoritarianism and we do not want military rule.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Russell Vought's sick little power trip will also hurt GOPers. One project he's cutting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, which spans Oregon, Washington, and...Montana. The state's GOP governor has hailed it for creating "good-paying Montana jobs." Oops. newrepublic.com/article/2012...

The Speaker of the House flailed across television as reporters fact-checked his claim that Democrats shut down the government to lavish undocumented immigrants with free health care. In reality, those immigrants are ineligible for tax credits, Medicaid, and Medicare. trib.al/b05zB58

The government shutdown is in its 4th day and Donald Trump just arrived at his golf course.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

I'll be trying to live-blog the 1pm ET hearing in Oregon v Trump for @lawfaremedia.org , filling in for @annabower.bsky.social (who is listening but driving). Oregon & Portland are seeking a TRO to block deployment of 200 national guard troops Secy Hegseth ordered sent on 9/28. ... /1

Something something Hunter Biden something something

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(3/3) Which means that unless the courts accept some kind of wild (and I can't imagine precedented) tolling argument, Halligan, Pam Bondi, and Donald Trump won't be able to fix this even if they had a single working brain among the three of them. SAD!

(2/3) It also just so happens not only that the only lawyer who signed (would sign!) the Comey indictment was … {checks notes again} … Halligan, but that the statute of limitations on the charges it purports to allege expired … {here's another handy note!} … at midnight last night.

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)