White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fisherman www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/w...

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

another pedocon sweetheart deal

“Matthews repeatedly deferred to Trump’s designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as granting the Defense Department unilateral authority to use military force against them…” An FTO designation doesn’t authorize the use of force. The DOD’s lawyer reportedly claims otherwise.

This is good and right. (Nobody needs to remind me that other stuff Newsom does is bad, okay?)

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response. @wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/govern...

This should be the whole point. It is an outright lie to vote for appropriations or legislation, of any kind, in a situation where the acts of Congress aren't really binding. It makes any possible "deal" worthless. The whole exercise is a sham. Dem votes would do nothing but legitimize the pretense.

*cough* www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/w...

There’s just no way to call the U.S. a free country anymore. When people are too scared to make a new TV show or movie making fun of the president, you’re no longer a free country.

Interesting, but reading the thread it appears the first example is wrong, the code is actually correct but a variable name was misleading.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

A federal judge unloaded today on DOJ's handling of prosecutions in D.C. lately. She says it has "been charging cases notwithstanding apparent constitutional violations" and has " have rushed to charge cases before properly investigating them," leaving people jailed in the meantime. And more.

We sued because ICE arrested Leo twice for being brown on a construction site and refused to believe his REAL ID was real. DHS responded today by calling our case "garbage," "race-baiting" that will "directly contribute" to more assaults of ICE officers. bit.ly/3KvED9R

The Trump regime is dissolving the Union unilaterally, that's what these actions *are*—repudiation of the American constitutional order vis-a-vis federalism.

In Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, Supreme Court justices' names are used for the names of pornographic acts--an early, milder version of what Dan Savage did for Rick Santorum.

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

They should have arrested, booked, finger-printed, and mug-shotted him before perp walking him back out of the building to his motorcade.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

🇨🇳 Every second, China bolts down ~100 solar panels. H1 2025: 67% of global solar already. And before decade’s end, China’s solar capacity ALONE will eclipse the whole US grid. The first true electrostate is here—rising at hyperscale, rewriting energy history in real time. ⚡☀️ #Solar #EV #Energy #BESS

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

Any AZ lawyers who can provide the complaint? www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/Civil...

BREAKING: Judge William Young finds that Noem, Rubio, DHS, and State "deliberately" sought to restrict non-citizens' First Amendment rights. "'No law' means 'no law.' The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction ...." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

Trump and Hegseth want to do Jade Helm

If the CISA 2015 info-sharing law expires tomorrow, CISA the agency may eliminate its real-time threat indicator sharing database, according to a new DHS OIG report. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul... Participation in sharing program has been declining since 2020. Post-expiration plans unclear.

a lot of dummies in AZ

New from 404 Media: Google just removed seven years of political advertising history from 27 countries. Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU. Much harder for accountability now. www.404media.co/google-ad-tr...

Amazing obit. www.economist.com/obituary/202...

I'm sure things are much better now that they've fired their security staff. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

You really gotta stick around for the second half of this piece, which goes down some reporting rabbit holes about Pentagon chaplaincy, the U.S. Constitution and, again, some pretty ruthless historical debunking:

Gov Katie Hobbs signed this misguided online age verification bill, even though she vetoed it last year.

Important thread. From a media critic PoV, what disappoints but does not surprise me is that the Atlantic's editors had neither the expertise to recognize the methodological failures here (not surprising) nor a grasp that they needed to seek out such expertise before publishing. (Less excusable.)

he is either (1) stupid enough to not know when his own daughter-in-law and own voice are AI-generated (a risk in its own terms) or (2) someone in the White House thinks they can make money off lying about MedBeds

robot vacuums make great pets

New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants. He's wrong -- about pretty much everything. radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...

Congress must repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close the loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. Learn more: bit.ly/4oxXJLN

US military policy should not be outsourced to the most sadistic human being in the country, who has never personally had to face voters or even a confirmation hearing

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

I had missed this post from Ed Whelan questioning whether Lindsey Halligan was even validly appointed in the first place. One minor point: Whelan says that the 1986 Alito memo "might not be in the public domain," but in fact it is, thanks to the Alina Habba litigation!

The Center for Inquiry merger with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason, which put the latter's head in charge of the merged entity, was clearly a huge mistake.

He’s an apparent criminal who sold out the city in a rancid deal with the Trump DOJ that was so corrupt the only way out was to dismiss the charges against him.

bad boyar defying the will of the tsar

That's "Weird AI" (artificial intelligence), not "Weird Al" (Yankovic).