UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago. She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

"I call myself a theocratic libertarian, who wants a limited government that will ban pride parades, prohibit the appearance of trans people in public, force women to carry pregnancies to term, and ban same-sex marriage"

Scenes from ‘war-torn’ Portland. Stay safe out there.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pritzker is fighting the abuse of Presidential Power.Today the president called for the elected governor of Illinois and the mayor of the third largest city in America to be jailed. This is textbook authoritarianism. bsky.app/profile/jbpr...

And still, Evangelical Christians are silent. Shame on every one of them.

U Ariz faculty senate approves resolution asking university NOT to sign compact. Paywalled,... www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

A rebuttal to Charlie Kirk's viral video claiming America was founded as a Christian nation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Another great op-ed by @randallbalmer.bsky.social - David Barton is not suited to advise Texas State Board of Education. www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/comm...

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]

…him being tackled to the ground and arrested by ICE. He was never told why he was detained. He was never charged. He was never allowed to see a lawyer. He was never told if he was being detained by ICE or by the FBI, both of whom were present. He wasn’t even told he was being released...

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief: Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

More on the Christianization of Texas Public Schools open.substack.com/pub/warrenth...

Progressive students in the south have had to navigate “deeply uncomfortable” conversations with their conservative family members (after Charlie Kirk’s death), said John, a sophomore at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guess where Comer, a wealthy man, gets his healthcare? From the government.

If you said this exact combination of words to a cop at a traffic stop, they wouldn't even waste time with the breathalyzer.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

July 24, 2024

"You don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump—particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Mike Johnson is a walking, breathing definition of what is wrong with politics. What a disgrace.

They can change the rules. They're changing them about everything else, they aren't here deliberately for the fight. Don't even mention that. Just say it plainly: they have majorities in both houses, a friendly SCOTUS, and the Presidency. Why can't they keep the government open? They choose.

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.) Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact: - White House - Senate - House - Scotus - OMB (to the hilt) - Every regulatory agency They're in command. It's on them.

Governor, have you considered getting together with other big names and having a daily press conference that leads the American people and tells us in nice specific steps like this how we can stop what's happening? We need to be pointed in the same direction by some competent leadership.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Anyway, as I argue in this piece...Trumpism didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all in which it lives, and what came before it. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/walter-hus...

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Ryan Walters bolts after announcing on cable news (in our studio) he will be stepping down as Superintendent to become CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance to “destroy the teacher unions”.

David Barton Appointed Texas History Advisor - Fake doctorate and all that. open.substack.com/pub/warrenth...

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

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Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Mark Driscoll is a pick-me pastor

Kindle version now available for pre-order: The Christian Past That Wasn't: Debunking the Christian Nationalist Myths That Hijack History. amazon.com/Christian-Pa...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Party of death and disinformation. Absolutely shameful.

The H‑1B visa fee is established by regulation, writes my colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social, and upping it to $100K would require notice and comment rulemaking, not some Trump decree. "What's more, the only basis for the government to issue fees is to recover costs of adjudicating applications."

This could be “the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States"—amounting to a $2B bribe from an Emirati royal and the sale of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, despite national security concern. trib.al/iZEOnGq

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.

Vaccine advisers I selected recommended I get a COVID-19 vaccine. Today, I followed that recommendation.

Stay Woke: Support free speech or lose it. open.substack.com/pub/warrenth...