Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry. Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed. Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?" Hewson: "Yes."

Plaintiffs in the Chicago Headlines Club lawsuit claim that DHS is outright refusing to provide drone and BWC footage from a recent attack on peaceful protestors. DHS is refusing to provide ANY drone footage which ... huh. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

Another one bites the dust. Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness. www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

He was my rep before redistricting. He is about as good as you can get at that job.

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

I wish so hard for the kind of rule of law that if an enforcement agent swore to a "largely fictional" story (as this judge finds) they would face severe consequences, starting but not ending with the loss of their job.

Open letter from many #Emory faculty re the firing of a med school colleague. We asked that only tenured faculty who are citizens sign it. Many people worked hard on our Open Expression Policy, only to have it violated at least 3x in less than 3 yrs. www.emorywheel.com/article/2025...

Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific. Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization." Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists." There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.

Reported and written by @globespotlight.bsky.social.

[Updating thread from last night.] The patently unlawful murders continue apace, but no one (e.g., in DoD, in Congress, among other nations) appears much to care. And now ... [1] @justsecurity.org @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

The House of Representatives has stopped convening. The Judiciary is hanging by a thread. Masked agents of the state are abducting citizens off the streets. If this were another country we’d understand it all immediately.

november - thanksgiving break time. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is authoritarianism. Picking his media oligarchs.

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

The main story of Caribbean boat strikes—now up to nine, in both Atlantic and Pacific, killing at least 30 people—is the lawlessness, domestically and internationally, and how it’s terrible strategy if they’re really targeting drug traffickers, which they might not be, or at least not careful about.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

This is fucking wild. Just murdering people from a different nation with no real evidence or due process.

Diana Bianchi, the scientist that ran the study that saved Sara’s life, was fired by Russell Vought and Trump in April.

This piece in the @bostonreview.bsky.social by Jed Purdy and Dave Pozen is exceptionally insightful and spurred me to think more deeply about what we're living through. Highly recommend. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

“…the judiciary is implementing an antiquated approach, which seeks to limit the impact of future cyber incursions but severely restricts the public’s access to court-approved unsealed documents in the process.” www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-...

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Words removed and added from NIH grant titles (meme courtesy of @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

Which news outlet will report this honestly? Headline "Trump Orders Murder of Suspected Drug Traffickers" subhead "11 Reported Killed in Strike on Boat in International Waters"

Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!

The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).

RFK Jr. is an outright danger to this country, and he should resign or be fired. Do we still have the sort of government that does such things? Or have we turned into. . . that other kind. You know the one.

Remember, this shit only works if Trump's rubes thinks this makes him look strong. It ESPECIALLY only works if they can make the charges stick. This has the same vibe as Trump's failed parade, and it's the same instinct.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

hey uh #chemsky is this what it looks like?, i.e. a tenured chemistry professor found the wrong* result, publicized it and the university responded by removing her from a tenured position and putting her in a full-time teaching position *correct but somehow politically inconvenient

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

Bulwark confirms that Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay stylist deported to CECOT, survived and is back in Venezuela. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

When the U.S. government decides to make an object lesson out of one person. Authoritarian repression replacing the rule of law. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“Defund the masked secret police grabbing people off of street corners, instead fund cancer research and healthcare funding” seems like a policy most Democrats across the country could run on

Fascinating essay by ‘Owl Posting’ describing the biology, epidemiology, mysteries, challenges, and medical importance of endometriosis. www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

I only took one picture at the NSF. The meetings were confidential and we took our work seriously. We approached our responsibility to evaluate taxpayer-funded work with both great care & excitement about the future. It's incredibly sad to watch the casual destruction of so much hard, essential work

Soooo….this:

Y’all know that Trump is going to take out the Steel Workers, right?