Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights
Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes
βArticle I of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war. This attack is very obviously large enough to qualify as a war. That means it just as obviously requires congressional authorization.β
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01.03.2026 23:31 β
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really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
26.02.2026 13:37 β
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While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club β in between fundraisers and parties.
01.03.2026 15:05 β
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βTHEY BETTER NOTβ defend themselves β¦ hits differently when the presidentβs brain is made of rancid pudding.
01.03.2026 05:27 β
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please don't call this weakness or cowardice or whatever. schumer supports the war and wanted more cover than he got.
that's why dwelling on process stuff is ultimately a dead end: because even if every form was filled out correctly, this would still be an abomination.
28.02.2026 18:43 β
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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was βlongtime fanβ of his show
Podcaster Nate Cornacchia has said that Israel was behind John F. Kennedyβs assassination and the global war on terror
βPlatner, a fellow military veteran, called himself βa longtime fanβ of Cornacchiaβs YouTube channel, βValhalla VFT,β and said it was βan absolute pleasure beingβ on the show.β
βValhallaβ β¦ yeah, nah dawgs.
28.02.2026 19:41 β
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Never forget who youβre fighting for.
28.02.2026 12:04 β
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A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
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28.02.2026 03:00 β
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Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.
28.02.2026 01:46 β
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Whether it's Trump releasing naked photos of Jeffrey Epstein's victims or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both men presented Americans with things they never should have seen.
27.02.2026 19:49 β
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Update/Scoopβ New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.
27.02.2026 18:16 β
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has emailed staff urging those wishing to leave the country to depart "todayβ. He warns of likely high demand for flights from Ben Gurion Airport and stresses the importance of a rapid exit. NYT has seen the email.
27.02.2026 09:53 β
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babe wake up weβre discrediting popularism again
27.02.2026 16:33 β
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I donβt think thatβs accurate. The real issue is that the immigration bar doesnβt understand what an outlier the system has been. When immigration cases are examined in federal court using the due process framework itβs a sharp contrast to how IJs and BIA decide cases.
27.02.2026 16:33 β
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Your Trump-handpicked Commerce Secretary, everybody.
Not sure who the guy on the left is.
They appear to be on some sort of island.
In the full photo you see a bunch of dudes standing around. Weird how there are no "wives" or "nannies" or "children" anywhere to be seen.
Huh.
27.02.2026 04:27 β
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My god this story.
27.02.2026 02:24 β
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Thank you. Truly thank you.
27.02.2026 02:30 β
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Columbia President with NEW details:
5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.
They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."
A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.
They ignored him & took the student.
27.02.2026 00:56 β
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This is part of the deal when you roll with Trump. Enjoy.
27.02.2026 00:14 β
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As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division
didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that
the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the
following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order:
The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources.
ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1.
The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government
attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and
his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the
Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making
any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.
If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of
this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil
contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another
occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten
contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply
with court orders.
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CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12
Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6
This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law,
including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another,
ICE will comply with this Court's orders.
Dated: February 26, 2026
(s/ Patrick J. Schiltz
Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge
United States District Court
BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders.
"ICE will comply with this Court's orders."
26.02.2026 22:36 β
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Obviously Alito
26.02.2026 22:15 β
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Congress must vote on the War Powers Resolution for Iran, take back the responsibility they are granted under Article I of the Constitution, and restrain the rash and belligerent would-be emperor in the White House.
26.02.2026 21:01 β
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Wow. Ellie Aghayeva β the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning β has been released and posted this on her Instagram.
Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.
26.02.2026 20:55 β
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If a trans person were caught jaywalking Republicans would be ranting about it every chance they got, meanwhile a trans person JUMPED INTO LAKE MICHIGAN IN THE WINTER AND RESCUED A STRANGERβS BABY and itβs crickets.
26.02.2026 20:41 β
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Columbia says DHS detained student after agents entered university building
Acting university president says agents misrepresented themselves to gain entry to the residential building
NEW: ICE agents reportedly lied their way into Columbia housing, without a warrant, to arrest yet another student.
This comes almost one year after plainclothes ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil at his Columbia residence, also without a warrant. ICE has no place on our campuses or in our streets.
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BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.
26.02.2026 19:19 β
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For a story: looking to speak with Mizzou Law 2013 graduates about a certain classmate who went on to a statewide position in Missouri and now a role in the Trump administration.
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26.02.2026 17:34 β
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