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Military service members are speaking out against President Trump's domestic deployment of federal troops to police protests and go after immigrants.

If you're a veteran, active duty member, or a family member of someone in the Armed Forces, send a message to the Department of Defense.

People who are immigrants deserve to be treated with compassion and humanity.

Emily Feiner
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How do we make this guy famous?

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

A teenage girl, Mary Kate Cornett, with blonde hair, stands on a green lawn wearing a white cardigan and jeans. Text overlay reads "Pat McAfee and Others Amplified False Rumor That 'Destroyed' Teen's Life." Photo courtesy of Mary Kate Cornett, published by THE ATHLETIC.

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Mary Kate Cornett was a normal 18-year-old, thriving as a college freshman at Ole Miss. Then, a false internet rumor — amplified by ESPN’s Pat McAfee — about her and her boyfriend’s father destroyed her life. nyti.ms/3RtsbYf

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

Tucker Carlson is now repeating unfounded allegations that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up with groups that include Hamas. The Hamas claim originated from a fake BBC-Bellingcat video created by a Russian disinformation campaign mimicking news organisations and was debunked months ago.

Selection of German headlines this morning:

“It’s now the law of the jungle”

“The former leading power of the West can no longer be relied upon.”

“Now it's up to the Europeans”

“The worst case is now the new normal”

“The free world needs a new leader”

“I had never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. That was a valuable lesson.” - Ulysses S Grant

“The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people”. - Ulysses S Grant

A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances A new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." — Viktor Frankl