Here is 50 US Code Chapter 33: War Powers Resolution. In other words a law. Calling actual laws "fake laws" isn't just authoritarianism, it's on the path to totalitarianism. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Congrats to @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social on whatever the fuck this is.

hey man weren't you just arguing about the need for law and order just a minute ago

NEW: House will vote shortly on whether to override President Trump's veto of a clean drinking water project in Colorado. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) is outlining Trump's support of the project prior to her call to release the Epstein files and his feud with Colorado over Tina Peters

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Andor is better at getting the average American out in the street than Marx or Lenin and it pisses off the dumbest people imaginable.

It is extremely embarrassing to all Americans that the vice president’s poll numbers are as high as they are rn and yes I’m aware of how low they are

We are in an unprecedented moment. ICE is being directed to act this way, while top federal officials are stating overt lies before any investigation has even begun. When agencies police their own misconduct, trust collapses. That’s why Minnesota state investigators must be involved.

Probably a good sign for us that they've wheeled JD Vance, the country's least likable man, out there as part of a clumsy cover up

Republicans correctly recognise that Vance really does repulse liberals which makes him a very important messenger for them. It's just unfortunate that he also repulses basically everyone else who isn't a Republican too

Kinda interesting they have JD Vance out here running, uh, defense.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Defaming a murdered woman and shrugging off her death with a lie is about as evil as it gets and no journalist who gets within shouting distance of this vicious troll should let him have a moment's peace about it.

For that reason if no other, they’ve got to signal that they’re pursuing this guy with everything they’ve got even though it’s going to be difficult because of federal interference, and they’ll also be investigating that federal interference.

I understand the difficulty of indicting the guy when they don’t know who he is and all the evidence has been seized, but this is a really great way to get protesters and observers to decide the state won’t protect them against ICE, and start carrying, and then something really bad happens.

I didn't even see that this was happening. I'm sure the anti gerontocracy crowd is going to respond positively to a prominent older Democrat doing the thing they wanted and resigning.

Pro tip: if your Mayor or your City Council are talking tough about ICE, demand that they take steps to limit local cops from sharing surveillance data with ICE. If they don't, they're full of shit.

The Trump Regime Smear Machine is now a taxpayer funded venture that smears victims of state violence by justifying their killing. This should be familiar, it is a common practice in the aftermath of police shootings of black people (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Next week we will return to Richmond and convene our 2026 legislative session. I’m ready to get to work!

really cannot be understated how much pure, boiling, apoplectic rage is felt by anyone on the left who understands what the constitution is for and what the founders believed when these shits invoke the founders for their gain. they literally would have killed these guys! immediately!

West Texas wildcatters with a couple bank loans who are used to the US production infrastructure are, uh, not who you want running this particular show. *BESSENT: INDEPENDENT OIL COMPANIES WANT TO GET TO VENEZUELA

Getting that barrel out is also going to be very expensive and require a ton of work that will take years.

Just to clarify: the barrel is worth a lot less, I don't have a strong view about what actual reserves Vene has other than "less than 300bn barrels".

Hypothetical barrel in the ground ain't worth two above it...it's a LOT less.

NB: neo-royalism as a framework is still useful, you just have to divorce it even further from material reality, which illustrates how incredibly vulnerable it is.

I think the framework of this thread is useful up to this point, at which point it starts to falter. The rents require capital upfront, and capital's logic (both in terms of upfront commitment and deployment) does not follow the same structure of the elite cliques hoping to benefit from it.

Enemy of my enemy is my enemy but I will laugh when the enemy fights with the enemy of my enemy

What does ODNI even do these days?

I might sound like a broken record by now but it's essential to find your little pockets of joy, otherwise the misery of the world will eat you whole and turn you into one of these miserable fucks.

so much of trumpism is short-termism, stealing from your future self's pocket

So, DHS has definitely taken that guy out of Minnesota by now, which I think is relevant when assessing the whole "why haven't they just arrested him" issue

First NY appellate-level decision on sanctions for AI misuse let’s fucking goooooooo www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3ds...

I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud.

Makes you wonder how far the collapse of the Rial means that the Khamenei regime can no longer rely on the Basij either

They are spitting in the eye of the poetntial jury pool, they have hollowed out the FBI and DOJ thoroughly, and every agency that would be involved lies faster than it breathes. We're already at the point where some lunatic could Rittenhouse an ICE agent and have a real chance of staying free.

State governments have to charge ICE officers, because if they get used to killing with impunity, what happens next is going to be actual violent retaliation by random members of the public. DO NOT DO THIS, dear reader, but someone else most certainly will, absent decisive state govt action.

This is bullshit. They absolutely have jurisdiction.

Ultimately, while the FBI will make it hard for the BCA to do its job, I suspect that both the Hennepin County Attorney's office and the Attorney General's office will find a way. It will just take a bit longer.

This cannot stand. Which is why we will be joining Rep. Robin Kelly to file articles of impeachment against Secretary Noem in the coming days.

An essential project of whatever comes next is to permanently ruin the lives of as many of these vile thugs as humanly possible, pour encourager les autres.

I could not unsee it and now neither can you.

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Good that he’s saying this

Ellison: "State authorities can investigate anyway. We don't need their authority. It's at least arguable that there's a violation of MN statues here. All of them depend on an investigation though. And the federal govt can't stop MN from doing it's own, but I would hope it wouldn't come to that."

deals with the Empire often go sour

“DHS LEOs should also avoid intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force.” In other words, get the fuck out from in front of the car.

If VZ is starting off with support underwater, most think it was illegal, large majority wants Congressional approval, almost no one wants to "run" Venezuela, not many people think it'll actually reduce drug flows, that's really quite bad if you're the White House. It won't get better

Usually the public gives POTUS benefit of the doubt, there's not a lot of good contrary real info yet -- "elasticity of reality" as Matt Baum put it -- and a halo around our brave troops doing kickass stuff. It almost never gets *better* after the first week.