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through legal interpretations and the Manual for Courts-Martial, establishes a duty to disobey manifestly unlawful orders. Reiterating this principle aligns with Congress’s oversight responsibilities and is fundamentally part of fulfilling its constitutional role. #holdfast #SteadyState

Congress has the constitutional duty to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces (Article I, Section 8, Clause 14). It enacted the UCMJ, which specifies that service members must obey only “lawful” orders and,

This is fucking horrifying.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Rep. Himes: Republicans have abandoned every single one of their policy beliefs in the service of Donald Trump. And now they have abandoned the oath that they take to the Constitution. They're no longer serving the Constitution, they are serving Donald J. Trump.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hegseth’s Own Lawyers Sound the Alarm on Trump’s Drug Boat Killings Career military officials say their opinions were ignored in the lead-up to the strikes.

Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel:
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk I Really Appreciate MAGA Creators

I Really Appreciate MAGA Creators
youtu.be/feNLXJay4vA

Just checking in has anyone seen or heard from Jill Stein?

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Tiktok immediately removed this to protect the PED-0 POTUS.

Checks notes:
can’t speak about Trump & Epstein ✅
can’t inform followers about imposters ✅
can’t block troll & bot accts (block limits)✅
can’t say anything that trolls do daily ✅
Can’t fact check Trump ✅
Can’t excercise Free Speech ✅ ✅ ✅
All while maga cheers for a PED-0
🖕🏼 ⏰ 🖕🏼POTUS is a PED-0

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

Enjoy. 😎✨

I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

People want institutions to stand up

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.

They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

Trying to get my algorithm to 2021

😂😂

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

I mean Skylight. I'm hoping to see you on the daily or you could just upload your videos here?

Found you on spotlight! DTD

Dogs. So good for us

Here are my Top 10 WORST Dogs!

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon condemns the arrest of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil in scathing letter to Secs. Rubio and Noem Khalil, who helped lead protests at Columbia University against civilian casualties in Gaza, was arrested by immigration officers and sent to a detention center in Louisiana.

“This maneuver evokes the Alien and Sedition Acts and McCarthyism. It is the playbook of authoritarians, not of elected officials in a democratic society who claim to be champions of free speech.”

Kudos to my Congress member, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, for writing this www.inquirer.com/politics/mah...

The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.