How can a United States Senator say the word “But” right after that first sentence?

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

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Really heartening news. A full vote of the entire 9th circuit vacates the opinion reversing Immergut in Portland case.The entire court will now hear it. Immergut opinion is quite important b/c it applies deference but still finds can’t let Trump have his way when that is “untethered to the facts.“

On the new 10% tax on Americans who buy stuff from Canada: "The powers he would be using are the Emergency Powers Act. The Emergency Powers Act both says nothing about tariffs and requires a national emergency. And the president having his feelings hurt is by no means a national emergency. "

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

Today's "One First" explains why Stephen Miller is wrong that ICE officers have "federal immunity" from prosecution for all actions they take in their official duties, and that anyone attempting to prosecute them is committing a felony. Supremacy Clause immunity is a thing, but it's *not* absolute:

Former DOJ officials say Comey case is vindictive, call for dismissal www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING: Judge dings Bondi, others for violating court rule w/comments on Abrego case, orders notification to all DOJ/DHS employees, wants various govt comms about case in camera incl. memo from prosecutor who quit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"As he was being taken to jail on the DUI charge, the intoxicated [ICE] agent not only asked the deputy if he was Haitian, but told another deputy he was going to check the deputy’s immigration status after he was released, the camera footage shows." apple.news/AzK8-ecHXRkCUJfZwqKwurg

NEW: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case, the Justice Department is moving to quash subpoenas for the testimony of senior DOJ officials, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s America

Looks tacky

Thanks, Brett. bsky.app/profile/davi...

One of the greatest Started/Goings of all-time.

Q: American farmers have really suffered from Trump’s trade war. Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel? Bessent: In case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too Forbes puts his net worth at about $600M

Clearly his doesn't believe that he works for the American people.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: "We had 19 members of congress go out to Chicago to have field hearings...What we did find was chaos and fear and lawlessness—but that chaos, fear, and lawlessness was being brought by armed and masked federal agents."

Sen. Mark Kelly: "Conducting combat operations in Venezuela doesn't make the United States more safe — it makes us less safe. Starting a war against Venezuela...does not make any sense."

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”

Autocrats, at times, use the military to shut down their parliaments and rule by executive orders. That Johnson chooses to shut down Congress so willingly is just a breathtaking abdication of responsibility to represent the body politic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.

Trump appears to have hit send prematurely

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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

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The Founders anticipated the possibility of a corrupt, venal, lawbreaking, wannabe monarch president. What they did not expect is numerous people achieving prominent national office and not wanting to guard their own power. The combo of ego to run but pathetic absence of ego in office stands out.

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.

"This is extrajudicial killing. In American domestic law, that's called murder," says @becingber.bsky.social on #ILW2025's "Legality of Military Strikes on Drug Traffickers" Panel. Collection of expert perspectives on the topic: www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

Peggy Noonan is worried now www.wsj.com/opinion/a-re...

The cost of the cowardice of this Congress is high as our government is being systematically dismantled and they aren’t even showing up for work. Check out my latest open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things: 1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good 2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

Benjamin Netanyahu is “very embarrassed of the fact that Hamas still exists, that Hamas is still the dominant player in Gaza,” a researcher at Tel Aviv University told @ichotiner.bsky.social. “If he could choose, he would prefer to continue the war.”

1/2: The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is a sad reflection of what U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson warned of 85 years ago – the Justice Department’s “immense power to strike at citizens, not with mere individual strength, but with all the force of government itself.”

GOP Sen. Rand Paul: I support America First. I support the idea that when we're $2T in the haul, we shouldn't be sending $20B to Argentina. We don't have it. It's borrowed. That's not America First. That's Argentina First.

Trump’s commutation wasn’t merely a favor to a disgraced ally. It was a declaration that the federal justice system now runs on personal loyalty to him. His act of mercy stole justice from the citizens whose trust Santos so thoroughly defiled. trib.al/vmWKaOh

The complete demolition of the East Wing has occurred in days.   Hundreds of thousands are without work and pay, millions are threatened to have food assistance cut off—and the President is bulldozing the White House to build a $300 million ballroom for himself. Americans will not forget.

Petulant, petty, and power drunk, our President punishes the American consumer because someone else doesn't grovel fast enough.

Trump punishes Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

This is another example in the Trump era of putting in charge people who want to destroy the very institutions in which they serve. The people need a way to call the House back into regular session over the Speaker's objection and obstruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

“They cheated on a commercial” - a totally sane person definitely fit for the Presidency

Seems like an important detail

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...