Holly Smith

Where the Law is Silent: Plenary Power & the “National Security” Constitution - Harvard Political Review The unspoken truth is that the Constitution can be ignored in the name of “protecting” it, and thus the nation, from minorities.

Plenary power: a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

Get used to seeing this term in the media for a while, after Stephen Miller accidentally used it in public with reference to the military.

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Black cat sits on a chair with a towel, playing with a toy mouse. Her tongue is sticking out.

A small black cat lounges on a bright pink blanket.

I miss my Tabby (on the left) so much. She passed in 2018 at the age of six. She was hilarious. Salem (on the right, old photo) is about to turn 17 and still has so much personality.

When you are at a point where you aren’t counting pennies, if you have no savings, set aside money in very small quantities. I managed to save more than $10K in 8 years without ever putting aside more than $100/month.

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

This morning, hours after a federal judge ruled that it would be illegal to federalize and deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland, Trump deployed federalized California National Guard troops in Portland. 1/16

Whoever is running DHS social media knew exactly what they were doing here.

The "Mac Tonight" Moon Man meme was so prevalent on Nazi Telegram channels I genuinely didn't even know it originated elsewhere until much later.

In 2004, the house voted down a bill to reinstate the draft 402-2. And that was when the war in Iraq still had popular, bipartisan support.

Listeria outbreaks and the winding down of food testing are killing my love for the occasional salad, outside of the little greens I can grow myself.

More importantly, if your objective is regime consolidation over the military, then bringing together 800 irritated top officers is the worst possible idea. They wouldn’t normally conspire electronically, but stranding them together during a govt shutdown gives them time to talk & compare notes.🚨

Help me out of the quicksand? $1880 to go! Thank you all so much for helping!!

Goodnight y'all! Started out needing $2k today, headed to bed with $1980 left to go. Thank you for helping!

Damn!

I think people who live in countries with robust voter protections do not understand how small of a minority actually voted the current US regime into office. Trump got 77M votes. Out of nearly 267M adults living in the US.

I was there over Memorial Day and it was pretty quiet for a downtown area, except for two redtail hawks that kept yelling at each other.

Now. I feel like shit and I would like not to feel that way and I cannot today leave my house because my body is on fire and so I will go to the internet and say today I am going to damn well help someone because that is how we make pain worthwhile. We use it as fuel.

Pay attention to this part:

I feel a little like we are on the precipice of having the meaning of law dictated almost entirely by who’s in the top office. All these rulings giving Trump more power being struck down a few years later once a Democrat is in office.

The generals, broadly speaking, probably don't want to touch this with someone else's dick and a twenty foot pole. They have no option just now except to attend the meeting, as the order to show up is a lawful one.

What should worry us is they're leaking they don't know what the meeting is for.

The current administration teaming up with climate change to destroy life’s little joys.

When I commented on the price of chocolate at the restaurant supply store, the cashier said, “Wait until next year. We’ve seen nothing yet.”

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

Someone was like "hey can you put an anti-ice message on this casing? We'll tweet it right out" and the FBI goon they got stared at it and was like "anti-ice, complete with the hyphen you put when you have a compound modifier, even though there's no noun in sight."

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough.

Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

It’s funny that nobody in the Trump sphere has the secret sauce like him. I hate the guy and he’s by no means wise but he understands people or at least he understands our lowest common denominator and it gives him an insight into society while the rest of them might as well be aliens in skin suits

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Would it help to presume it will happen and then try to plan around it? For me, I found it’s often less stressful to assume the thing I’m afraid of will happen and prepare for it, so I’m not caught off-guard.

Also, totally normal to break down on the big day. It’s a lot.

Photo of ICE thugs using chemical weapons on a Reverend.

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Charlie Kirk's grieving widow had just left the stage moments before the fireworks for Trump kicked off.

Just so wildly and blatantly inappropriate for a memorial service for someone else.

Fucking nuts.

Clearly a man wracked by grief

This is my shocked face 💀

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits