A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.” “Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”

Really one of the cleanest best most eloquent opinions any district court has delivered since January. And she is a Trump appointee.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

Mexico has the peso, we’re getting the pedo.

All legal nonsense aside about the supposed state of armed conflict between the U.S. and Venezuelan gangs, what "I wish to emphasize is that there is a word for killings outside of armed conflict for which there is no domestic legal authority. That word is murder." [@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org]

Are we healthy again? www.healthline.com/health-news/...

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...

Is the Democratic resistance holding firm or cracking? Keep an eye on these 3 senators for answers 🏛️

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...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

"Mr. Sanchez was arrested in the hospital and charged with battery with injury, unlawful entry of a motor vehicle and public intoxication, the police said. All of the charges are misdemeanors, the police said." He is a leading candidate for Deputy Attorney General.

To the extent the administration tries to justify its killings in the Caribbean by claiming there's an armed conflict with Tren de Aragua (lol), here is the IC's April assessment. TdA is not an "organized armed group" capable of being in an armed conflict. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Doing a live TV hit and leading with this: "There is a term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict—that term is murder."

Most journalism this week has been like, "Legal experts unsure whether Trump shooting man in middle of 5th Avenue is murder..."

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

I've not seen CNN or MSNBC utter a single syllable about Trump's 4-day disappearance, days after his garbled speech at Quantico, a month after a 6-day disappearance. Strangeness, health questions, incongruities, inconsistencies - nothing. Not even to just say it happened. Normalization on steroids.

Both could be true.

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

Coming this Christmas - the Stephen Miller Baby Doll that cries when it sees diversity and screams when it detects empathy.

Stephen Miller looks like the villain in a movie about tax audits.

America needs to stop, drop, and roll.

A military-style operation is taking place outside the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois, featuring snipers stationed on rooftops and armored vehicles on the streets. Protesters are reportedly being abducted and vanished, signaling authoritarian repression in this Chicago suburb.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

I don’t even think I’d blink if he invited Hamas to Camp David.

Trump is allegedly golfing today. But the press pool has been prevented from seeing him. Not prevented from interviewing him, but from even seeing him, at any distance. He hasn't been seen or heard live since Tuesday. Whatever his state is, they don't want anyone to see it, smell it, or know it.

Look Mark you're a Fox News host now. You're not supposed to be battering anyone. You're supposed to inspire poor people to batter them.

Mark Sanchez, the former NFL quarterback who is a Fox Sports commentator, was arrested on Saturday after being injured in a stabbing in downtown Indianapolis that left him hospitalized in stable condition, according to the police.

Don't forget that amid all his other wrongdoing Trump betrays the principle of national unity. He deploys federal power to make war on states that didn't vote for him, along with their populations.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has to look at ways to "save money in a responsible way that respects the American taxpayer's money" during shutdown.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

Hurting their own

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

From Buzz Lightyear toy dismemberment to the Department of Homeland Security: Pixar’s darkest timeline.

Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon

Truth from the Trump White House (Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Anthony Salisbury): Kash Patel is “day to day [a] giant douche canoe.”

Almost three-quarters of Americans say the economy isn’t good, and more than half blame Trump. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Save the date: On Oct. 8, Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a press conference — joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse — to discuss the discharge petition to force a vote on Khanna and Massie's bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

If H‑1Bs “took jobs,” you’d expect lower wages for U.S. grads. The best available studies show the opposite: 1990–2010 H‑1B inflows raised wages of American college grads by 4.2% and non‑college by ~2%, with native employment unchanged. Think complements, not substitutes.

A statute may "enshrine a tradition," but that is not the only thing it does. A statute codifies law, just the same as statutes criminalizing homicide and bank robbery, and it is just as "clear" that violating the statute is unlawful.

Monsters

Are those my pants on the floor? How did they fall off? | Analysis

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Was he telling the truth before? Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier? Is he just trolling all of us? | Analysis

Know what would be great counterprotesting on Thursday when Kash wants a perp walk? Adelita Grijalva and some Epstein survivors talking about the lengths Trump is going to cover up the Epstein files.

The court sketches from Diddy are lit.

Absolutely shameless harnessing of government action to private monetary gain. “Mr. Siri, who was Mr. Kennedy’s campaign lawyer, is at the forefront now of furthering their shared interests, inside government circles and outside through the courts.”

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is the farthest-right, most hateful and disinformation-forward social media feed I’ve seen of any person who doesn’t openly identify as a member of a hate group. It’s toxic at a level that in any other era would have led to *anyone* in business ceasing all dealings with him.

NEW: Diddy cancels his speaking engagement next week in Miami due to scheduling conflicts.