If your imperial capital is on an isthmus you really should prioritize maintaining a navy

And here's the written order. (To be clear, the gov't was bound by the verbal order. This is memorializing it for the inevitable appeal.) Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to Portland for fourteen days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!” “Let me introduce you to our frog.”

You have my attention…

Seems like a bad way to consolidate power

We have a lot of military history podcasts but I have yet to find a good labor history one despite all the crazy things that happened during the growth of labor

Did not think this bespoke knowledge would be as genuinely relevant throughout this year as it has been

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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Vaxxed?

DEA and ATF are about to be assigned details to Portland. It's gonna be rough.

10th amendment violation

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

Immergut: The question is the scope. I see the defendants' conduct as being in direct contravention of the court's order issued yesterday....I am troubled by the defendant's conduct, but have some concern about the breadth of the alternative relief requested during tonight's hearing

Is she threatening to shoot Chicago?

This argument is not as clever as they think it is

DOJ: President determined in June that CA NG had to be federalized, and ... Judge: Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Hamilton, if it were the case that you could federalize NG in one place and simply send to another place where pres doesn't have authority to federalize NG, what would purpose of 12406 be?

Things appear to be going well for DOJ

The jump and down a bunch at Wisconsin football games and do it with a BAC that would kill a non-wisconsonite

2/ "Most comprehensive investigation to date was conducted by the @apnews.com in collaboration with @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and @howardcenterasu.bsky.social" [FSI] Risks of Handcuffing Someone Facedown Long Known; People Die When Police Training Fails to Keep Up By @marthabellisle.bsky.social

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

“The senior administration official, as well as other Trump officials, note that it is a priority of the president’s that these kinds of military deployments — in L.A., and now D.C., in times of relative calm — become normalized in American political culture” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We need more goofiness in sports

People should invite me to do things with them. I don't bite, am up to date on my shots and I am house trained.

The author is dead, but somehow the reader never seems to take responsibility

To evangelical homeschoolers, child protection will never be a proper use of government.

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

I believe Donald Trump is the ONLY president who can rescue the brave POWs still held captive in Vietnam

The preparing excuses to get ahead of big cuts that are coming because the economy is getting hit on all sides from tariffs, giant federal spending cuts, government shutdown and a government run by people who don't know how to handle a crisis.

The calm before the storm. It's a different story at night. When the thugs come out...

For everyone in the comments trying to identify the animal: there was heavy internal debate in our office over what this was. We eventually landed on a capybara. That’s Portland for you.

It's a theory the same way gravity is a theory

The Andy Rooney editorial page

I think of a woman at my church who put together the church bulletin for years up into her 90s who after September 11 compared Osama bin Ladin and Pat Robertson when I went along on a church visit.

A fan favorite from my recent video is who I’m imagining this is about

I think I'm going to be forced to apply to every temp agency around just to get some money coming in because everything but bottom tier manufacturing seems to have completely disappeared and even though I qualify I doubt I will be able to get through Florida Unemployment to actually get my money.

We caused over a million casualties in Vietnam. The war wasn't because we were unwilling to kill a bunch of civilians.

"Do I dare live out the American Dream?"

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Pleased to speak with the BBC about the lethal and lawless US strikes in the Caribbean. "There is no legal basis for these premeditated killings in the Caribbean."

Philly wrote about this post in the dang newspaper

I miss being able to go to io9 a couple of times a day to get new scifi stuff

I forgot he was a Stat Trek obsessive. Never has someone so completely missed the point of a media property.

new kinda guy just dropped

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...

He is going to break out the spray hair to do his rounds saying the Presidents authority cannot be questioned again

For perspective on her politics, Judge Immergut was one of Ken Stars' attorneys investigating Bill Clinton, a US Attorney for GW Bush, and appointed to the federal bench by Trump

This is what happened when the original Human Torch killed Hitler