Millie Cassese ⚖️

Hear, hear❕⚖️🇺🇸

UPDATE: The @nytimes tells Hegseth to pound sand on his new policy to restrict how reporters cover the Pentagon

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Pritzker ❕⚖️🇺🇸

Did the FBI find photographs of Trump in Epstein’s files?

The answer was not no.

The disrespect Bondi paid to Sen. Whitehouse was cringeworthy.
But the good senator didn't blink at the non-answer. She got buried, all by her snotty self.

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

"In Vought, the director of the White House office of management and budget (OMB), Trump was invoking a figure who at times appears to have enjoyed inflicting pain on civil servants; last year, video footage emerged of Vought saying of federal workers: 'We want to put them in trauma.'"
-The Guardian

Two huge shutdown developments just now.

1. Russ Vought is laying off fed workers. The GOP was dreading this, and it will hurt Virginia voters.

2. Mike Johnson cancels another week of House votes, meaning no bill on military pay.

On top of that: Johnson floated new rescissions.

THIS!! 👇👇

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

"Hate America rally"⁉️
Oh, man, they're gearing up for next Saturday.
We are NOT afraid❕⚖️🇺🇸
#NoKings

"... the Nobel committee had 'elevated a courageous hero of peacemaking — someone who works among her own people to protect them against repression and atrocity crimes in order to shape a more peaceful and democratic world.'"
- NYT

#Nobel ☮️

(⬆️ words to explain exactly why Trump is ineligible...)

"... the Nobel committee had 'elevated a courageous hero of peacemaking — someone who works among her own people to protect them against repression and atrocity crimes in order to shape a more peaceful and democratic world.'"
- NYT

#Nobel

(⬆️ words to explain exactly why Trump is ineligible...)

So great ❕⚖️🇺🇸😎

Great idea! To counter Trump's lies about the cities he's sending in the National Guard. @jimmykimmel.com asked for videos of your war-torn community & post it with
#ShowMeYourHellhole

The reality is troops are being called in to stop inflatable characters dancing to YMCA! @emptywheel.bsky.social

Admire, and greatly respect, Norm Ornstein. The feeling of a fading generation (myself included) brings fear in my heart for our children and grandchildren.
"Institutional patriotism," lost on a generation that will fail to pass on what, it seems, only few today even remember.

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

"It feels like the mission of the DOJ, rather than just a one-off."
- Harry Litman

A "mission" it is, horrifyingly.

(And Pulte is a little punk.)

"Letitia James is being criminally charged for the ‘crime’ of holding Trump accountable."

And, yet, those who actually commit crimes are being pardoned.

How much longer will we continue to be told hot means cold, black means white, up means down, good means bad, right means wrong...

Looking forward.

Thumbnail of page 1 of the PDF linked above.

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #66: order on motion for temporary restraining order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

This is BIG❕Trump's cronies making money off of "YOUR" student debt - - and what rates will they be charging ⁉️

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street.

He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

Americans who love democracy need to face the fact that we’re no longer living in one.
We’re living in a transitional state in which a fascist dictatorship is fast descending.
But we still have a great resource: people power. It’s time for boycotts, protests, civil disobedience. Make yourself loud.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

Although, perhaps, the grand jury 'should' be "convicted" for such a sham indictment.

Comey's team did raise it.

"Comey’s strategy, as outlined in court on Wednesday, will focus on attacking Halligan’s authority as the US Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia as part of efforts to convince the court to dismiss the charges against him."
- CNN