Entropy

Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?

Republican Tom Homan says he didn't take a $50,000 cash bribe (he did). But Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse says Homan took the cash in a paper bag (it was specifically a Cava bag). Will either party tell the full truth?

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1 Indeed, in the past few days, the President has repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed. These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention. The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S. military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot.

(Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

The Top Oversight Democrat Is Demanding to Schedule Ghislaine Maxwell’s Deposition House Democrats are eager to keep attention on Jeffrey Epstein — even during a government shutdown.

Exclu: Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is demanding to schedule Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition.
www.notus.org/house/oversi...

Trump on burning flags: "We took the Freedom of Speech away."

(Paging all Republicans)

Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M Dozens of those trades came in the form of stock sales made on March 18, when key details of Trump’s tariff policies were disclosed.

Republican Rep. Sheri Biggs failed to properly disclose 170 trades worth up to $13.6 million.
www.notus.org/congress/rep...

You will not defeat fascism if you don't peel off soft supporters. You simply won't do it.

At least some of these guys look Latino anyway, and we know Latino voters in TX are moving.

But literally, these people will go w/o pay for weeks. That's pretty persuasive.

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Sen. Peter Welch: Is there a tape and that has audio and video of the transfer of the 50,000 [to Tom Homan]?

Pam Bondi: You would have to talk to Director Patel about that.

Welch: I'm talking to you.

Bondi: I don't know the answer.

Welch: You do know the answer.

Bondi: Don't call me a liar!

A guy who's been calling for a civil war every other Tuesday, suddenly clutching pearls over John Oliver's comments, is peak irony.

Will Chamberlain, free speech absolutist.

Blue-State Governors Threaten to Quit Bipartisan Group Over Trump Deployment Response The National Governors Association “has lost its voice and its way,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California wrote this week in a letter to the organization.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker threatened to withdraw their states from the National Governors Association if it does not condemn the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments.
www.notus.org/california/n...

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

The Constitution did not foresee the position of presidential chief of staff, so it’s hard to see what legitimate constraints could prevent Stephen Miller from becoming an all-powerful dictator.

by Jonathan Turley

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

We need to unmask and identify these people.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Meanwhile right wingers are squealing bc their toll records were obtained 2 years into an investigation.

Let’s ID him

Americans were sick of M$DNC shitlibs and their foreign war machine, so they wisely voted for President Trump and his domestic war machine, which I do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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Guys, I did an antisemitism by reporting that CBS News staffers don't think Bari Weiss is qualified to run a broadcast news network.

Bari Weiss becoming head of the news division at CBS does not just tarnish the legacy of Murrow and Cronkite, it tarnishes the legacy of fucking Hee Haw.

Bari Weiss is the Laura Loomer of CBS.

Israeli Math:

1 Israeli life is worth
55.83 Palestinian lives

67,000 divided by 1200

October 7th