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thank you brett kavanaugh!

When you compare crew casualties to Shermans lost, Shermans don't perform particularly worse than peer tanks of the period.

IRC the reputation likely stemmed from crews going to salvage busted Shermans only to see them cook off or something.

NEW: Judge Immergut issues her written second TRO, blocking the Trump admin from deploying ANY federalized National Guard troops from ANY state in Oregon. (Full hearing thread below) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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.

Wurman is a hack. Hacks gonna hack. You can’t take that too personally. I do, however, take personally the professors who lectured us that we have to treat him as a good-faith actor.

A reminder that “states’ rights” is always a smokescreen for Republicans

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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

me: Oh my God, I am tired of the robot talk.

brain: You can turn off the phone.

me: Explain.

brain: The screen on your phone projects the images which convey the text that distresses you.

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

It's that awful moment when you realize in more than an intellectual way, but in an emotional way, "This has to be obvious, do I really need to say this? Surely people understand this by now... Ah, crap."

Exceptions that prove the rule, ect.

If this man wasn’t literally like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed then I can’t understand why they would possibly think he would merit 24/7 guard under a pseudonym.

I think the field boss spawns at 10 PM EST

Also, Medicaid beneficiaries' hostility toward Medicaid in other states reminds of the persistent research finding that Americans tend to give their own local public schools an A rating while giving C ratings to public schools in communities other than their own.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

A real one. Absolutely abhorrent for any of these advocates to be mistreated for trying to deliver aid to Palestinians.

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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.

They are not, you know, actually sincerely against showing contempt for America or its values or its peoples. That’s the essence of their movement. What does MAGA mean other than America is no longer great? No, the demand for obeisance is only directed at certain people.

As many gender as there're stars in the sky.

American elites: Clearly the electorate has issued a crushing and total reputation of liberalism. We have no choice but to honor the will of the volk and dismantle the republic.

American peasants: I voted for increased taxes on imports to make them cheaper but it made them more expensive instead :(

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds.

Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

the truth is that Pritzker has power because the cops technically answer to him and he's understandably anxious about what happens if that's suddenly not the case.

the civ-mil crisis of municipal policing in the 21st century United States will come to a head at some point. nobody wants to rush it

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.

If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

Our lower court colleagues have already chosen the obvi-ous—i.e., least disruptive and most humane-answer to that question.? So, this stay application presents us with an antecedent decision: whether the Government's interest in terminating TPS right now is so urgent that this Court, rather than the able judges currently exercising jurisdiction over the matter, should be the one to decide those individuals' interim fate. See Noem v. Doe, 605 U.S. . (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting from grant of application for stay) (slip op., at 7-8); see also Magnum Import Co. v. Coty, 262 U. S. 159, 164 (1923) (explaining that "this Court requires an extraordinary showing" before it will override the stay decision of a lower court, rendered "with a much fuller knowledge [of the case] than we can have"). Only if the Government demonstrates such a time-sensitive need should we even consider vetoing the lower courts' unanimous judgment about the most equitable interim status. The Government has made no such showing. Yet, for the second time in this same case, the Court grants it the

JACKSON, J., dissenting extraordinary relief it seeks. We once again eschew re-straint—ignoring the need for exigency or any other prudent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible. I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families' pleas for the stability our Government has promised them. Because, re-spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

Sotomayor and Kagan would deny the application.

Jackson, alone, writes, accusing the majority of "privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them."