If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” Kafka, The Trial

Same. I hope.

It was after sundown

In a newspaper, yes.

Word of the day: PLENARY

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

Clearly not a lot of grass being touched in the Rose Garden. So much energy devoted to edge-lord garbage 99% of voters never hear about, much less care about.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

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I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Trump's acting criminally authoritarian but hasn't consolidated power. Fascist overreach makes him even more unpopular. I badly wish we weren't in this situation. But we are. So as bad as short-term pain will be, it'll get more people to pay attention, which might be our only chance to stop them.

This is very good. I urge reading the whole thing. And I hope Dems do this.

As bad as this headline is, the details are worse. Russel Vought is trying to roll back SS for the elderly, the disabled, the widowed and orphaned and FURTHER cut food stamps. Make sure to read and share this gift link: wapo.st/4qa8yoq

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

“The spokesperson declined to say whether agents had warrants to forcibly enter homes.” Via Reuters

Here’s a longer video that begins midway through the incident👇👇

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”… “Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

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.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

I don't normally share these, but what the hell, worth a brag. Wordle 1,568 2/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

Dog whistle? It's a bullhorn.

Yow

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say reut.rs/46AfymJ

Submitted for your approval, "populists." youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q?...

This is delightful.

Yeesh. In my case my 20s again, but again, yeesh. That only means I remember how not-great the 1980s really were.

"Arrested while covering a protest. Shot in the face with a pepper ball. Shoved to the ground and taken away on a stretcher. Journalists have repeatedly been injured & impeded while reporting on action by masked ICE officials" view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175... by @brianstelter.bsky.social

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Today's NYT "Times Machine," 51 years ago today. Nixon aides go on trial; Congress to grill President Ford on his pardon of the resigned, disgraced Tricky Dick. Ah, those were the days, when crimes had consequences. 'Twould be sweet to go back there, even as a 68-year-old (17 kinda sucked anyway).

I argued the other day that DHS efforts to create erotic brown-abuse spectacle was being drowned out by Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies. Looks like the operation that targeted 5 guys and arrested <40 but violated all kinds of Fourth Amendment rights is an attempt to up their game.

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

Sad to see this. She was great, and seemingly eternal. I remember reading about her when I was a child — and I am, too put it mildly, not young.

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I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

The plan? Assemble the top military leadership in one place. Have an alcoholic who stalled out at major call them fat. Next have a sundowning draft dodger call them gay.

Seems appropriate to post today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I158...

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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