humboldt insomniac

Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

An oldie but a goodie

I am usually pretty unmoved by the president's failures of decorum, because I find it creepy that people are generally unmoved by fucked up presidential shit if it's discussed in a tasteful manner and everyone adheres to fancy, historic norms, but that "Quiet, Piggy" shit was something.

An entire federal staff packed to the gills with the most hateful, entitled, boiling little sociopaths hoping to get a quick career and everything they want to do is "get a mass rapist off charges" and "pump my shitcoin" and "fuck over a business who wrongd me"

Again before we go praising MTG… and if shes truly changed great, but can somebody please ask her about January 6? Have her address that to see if this is real

@kenwhite.bsky.social is it good or bad when the judge follows up repeatedly reminding you that you are an officer of the court with reminding you that "You're a lawyer!" ?

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Must be surreal to represent your state asking the court to stop a military invasion by the federal government.

John Roberts: unlike Eric Hamilton, I *am* a policymaker

They want violence. They fear mockery.

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

Russ is absolutely faint from the constant raging boner he's getting about hurting people he hates.

Telling a group of generals there’s “an enemy within”—basically meaning the left – that must be “brought under control”? That’s straight fascist stuff.

Nauseating.
President Trump hailed the use of military force to police American cities, telling generals and admirals during a Tuesday address that it was important to quell “the enemy within.”

“SF, Chicago, New York, LA, they’re very unsafe places and we’re gonna straighten them out one by one.”

District judge throws out prosecution against protester in DC with prejudice, slams US attorney for a pattern of abuse

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The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

Bonus 180: "Domestic Terrorism" and NSPM-7 The Trump administration is hoping no one notices that, although federal law *defines* "domestic terrorism," it provides no special authorities against anyone whose behavior *meets* that definition.

Federal law doesn't recognize the concept of a "domestic terrorist organization." That hasn't stopped President Trump from trying to use the concept to authorize investigations of (and necessarily suppress) lots of constitutionally protected speech, protest, and advocacy.

Me in today's "One First":

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Supreme Court sides with Trump in foreign aid funding debacle A months-long fight over foreign aid contracts put President Trump’s effort to seize funding authority before the high court.

Leading the dissent, Kagan laments that her colleagues continue to use the shadow docket to decide novel issues.

She called Trump's actions "essentially, a presidential usurpation of Congress's power of the purse."
@courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

There is so little transparency on how shadow docket decisions are made that I'm tempted to read into Kagan's note that the justices didn't get to deliberate in conference.

Do they get to for some applications? Maybe, maybe not www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

“Pocket Rescission”

What a country.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

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...

So many fucking lunatics in this country 😭

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.