FBI is the Klan now

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wonder if this is a "recycling cooking oil is woke and bogus" thing.

This is where my brain went immediately

Impressive. Was hoping we'd get quick response on that.

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

WWE style fandom even

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

LONG drive from Sacramento today, but June Lake's Rush Creek Trail made it all worth it

Imagine if Biden had tried to federalize the Texas National Guard to halt Operation Lone Star, perhaps by claiming Texas was engaged in "rebellion."

Would a single legal commentator on the right have claimed that decision was unreviewable? I just fundamentally do not believe they would.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

One of the facts that should be mentioned is immigrants in the US without legal status still pay taxes in all sorts of ways, including the Medicare payroll tax, so it wouldn’t be “free health care.”

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson, California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest, Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Carson, California. Id. At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6. On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet. ¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE, which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards. See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48. Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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A public broadcaster's path after losing U.S. funds: Youth sports and less local news South Dakota Public Broadcasting says there's an ironic result to President Trump's successful attack on public media: It will have to rely more on NPR programs.

South Dakota Public Broadcasting says there's an ironic result to President Trump's successful attack on public media: It will have to rely more on NPR programs.

I tried to find it but went down a rabbithole of questionable accounts. Bad sign.

Karin Immergut is an ex-AUSA. That’s no guarantee of character, obviously. There are plenty of ex-AUSAs who are hacks, grifters, climbers, and throne-sniffers. Look at Emil Bove. But some of them give a shit about the rule of law and won’t pretend the emperor has clothes./1

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' :

"[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

Oregon AG Rayfield: The first thing that might’ve told you the federal government wasn’t doing so hot was when they started off some of their arguments by talking about Truth Social as their source of facts.

Actually got a comment from the judge: “Is this really how you’re going to move forward?”

wtf is he even talking about? I mean AI can be wrong but approximately 7K law enforcement in Oregon vs. 14K (less with firings, but still not yet half that) in the FBI. This guy just pulls stuff out of his ass and as a result is not surprisingly full of 💩

An important first step will be city/state cops arresting ICE agents for brutality.

Mayors and governors are reluctant to "escalate" but ICE isn't. They're going to be boldness to ratchet up the brutality until called to account.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

stephen miller was not bullied nearly enough in high school

Does anyone really follow Miller?

Like, does he have his own following of weirdos, or does his superpower derive from his Grima Wormtongue-like influence over Trump?

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

One of the most melodramatically malevolent federal officials ever to do it. If we live through this he should maybe become a stock villain of Italian theater.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that all Defendants in the above-captioned case hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from this Court's October 4, 2025 Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 56, and Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 56-1.

NEW: The Trump admin appeals Judge Immergut's TRO to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Everything, according to trump, is his personal property. Museum artifacts, classified documents, the white house, air force one, private companies, private universities, your farm, your taxes, your daughter. To assert at all otherwise is to proclaim yourself an enemy of the king