Benjamin Wilson

Reposting this as long as he keeps killing civilians by bombing them from the sky. The war on drugs is a metaphor, not a justification for cold blooded murder.

I've asked staff in Kim Reynolds' office whether she would deploy the Iowa National Guard to blue states over the objections of the home state governor.

No reply yet.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Freedom-of-speech event at the State Historical Society of Missouri this Wednesday!

truman.missouri.edu/news/oct-8-d...

That is fucking disturbing (the needle stabbing)

Needless to add, immigrants pay billions in taxes every year.

A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

It's bullshit that I can't heart this more than once.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

International student enrollments drop at St. Louis-area universities Overall international enrollment at the four area universities has dropped by more than 2,700 students compared with last year.

St. Louis University has lost 1,566 international students this fall v. last fall. WashU has lost almost 1,000.

The Trump-era brain drain is only just starting.

www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...

The Emergency Docket is undermining the Supreme Court. It is causing appellate and district courts to slowly rebel against it. The public is noticing: the world-ending stupidity of the Kavanaugh Stops being conducted by ICE makes Justice Kavanaugh look a fool. It is a legitimation nightmare.

Certainly a contrast to a George Santos type who is all lies and no band.

The attorneys who drafted the EO for him are tearing out huge clumps of hair right now (or should be)

Can you get injunctive relief against enforcement of a tweet?

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Tragic. They desperately need a new owner. I adore the paper, but the customer service and digital platform are horrendous.

That is putting it mildly

Hearing next week: Questions for AG Bondi on Extrajudicial Killings in Vessel Strikes in the Caribbean

Right up there on the fun scale with Joni "We're all gonna die" Ernst

Messenger: St. Louis County man sent a note about Jimmy Kimmel. A TV chairman replied. When Jerry Goerger wrote to a TV executive about Jimmy Kimmel's TV show, he was surprsied by the response.

St. Louis man emailed executive chairman David Smith at Sinclair about the Jimmy Kimmel cancelation. He received a predictably obtuse reply.

www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

😂

Student journalists, FTW.

TikToker battles defamation suit filed by notorious St. Louis developers Controversial developers Sid Chakraverty and Vic Alston are suing a former tenant for libel after she posted videos to TikTok bashing her “horrifically bad experience” at the Soho Apartments in Soular...

The St. Louis developers were indicted for fraud in September 2024, but prosecutors dropped the charges shortly after attorney Brad Bondi—brother of AG Pam Bondi—entered an appearance in the case. 😡

www.stlmag.com/news/tiktok-...

Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF Alt: Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF

NEW: Leah & Kate track the wild implications of the unitary executive theory at SCOTUS & outside of it.

Then Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social & Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net join all 3 hosts to talk about Redemption & the Supreme Court - & how that surfaces today.

crooked.com/podcast/the-...

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June.

He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

Enjoying it so far. I would not put it up there with Mare of Easttown yet, but the *soul*, yes.

Agreed! River is an astonishing series.