Tom Sullivan

Congress to vote on Trump’s war powers in aftermath of Iran strikes | CNN Politics Top Capitol Hill Democrats, and a small number of Republicans, watched in alarm Saturday as the administration launched a major US assault on Iran, decrying President Donald Trump’s call for the overt...

“No. War requires Congressional authorization,” [Rep. Warren] Davidson [R-Ohio], a former Army Ranger who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Saturday, unequivocally stating he did not support the president’s action in Iran.
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Google Trends tells the extraordinary story: This afternoon, "Iran" was the top trending search in the US followed by "Khamenei." Below that, CNN was trending. So was Reuters and the BBC. Also: "World War 3."

Google Trends tells the extraordinary story: This afternoon, "Iran" was the top trending search in the US followed by "Khamenei." Below that, CNN was trending. So was Reuters and the BBC. Also: "World War 3."
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

“I can’t think of a client I’ve had detained that did not have their documents taken,” says a Minnesota immigration attorney. “As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”
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“It Ends Today”: Judge Threatens to Haul in DOJ Officials Under Oath A federal judge is fed up with top officials ignoring court orders on immigration.

“It Ends Today”: Judge Threatens to Haul in DOJ Officials Under Oath newrepublic.com/post/207108/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump’s forever war—the eradication of unwanted, “filthy, dirty, disgusting” (nonwhite) immigrants from our soil—will take 3 presidential terms, Greg Sargent projects. If Congress ever demobilizes this ethnic cleansing effort, expect DHS to have its own 1033 program.
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AI Death Machines. No Human Oversight. What Could Go Wrong? Pete Hegseth is trying to bully Anthropic out of objecting to “lethal autonomous weapons systems” and mass surveillance.

What will über-Christian Hegseth threaten Anthropic with next? Fit a wire cage holding hungry rats over the face of its CEO?
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OTOH, it took the Allies only about a year to liberate the Nazis' concentration camps.

If we had any Allies.

Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" • a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event » 5:27 PM • Feb 23, 2014

It’s finally over

I hear there's a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania.

Trump promised a lot of things would happen on Day One.
What Day Is It Now?
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Whistleblower: “ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution”
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Exclusive: Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US Paedophile paid private detectives to remove equipment from his home in apparent attempt to thwart investigators, Telegraph can reveal

Jeffrey Epstein hid computers & photographs from authorities in secret storage lockers. Documents uncovered by the Telegraph show Epstein paid private detectives to store personal material for him. Search warrants suggest the lockers may contain unseen evidence.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

"Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes," Garcia stated.
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Whistleblower: “ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution”
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Annabella was left alone after her father was taken by ICE while picking up food. Annabella decided to go look for her dad and was found wandering outside by her mother. @ahylton26.bsky.social spoke to 6-year-old Annabella Mancia Rodriguez about the experience. Watch the interview tonight at 7pm ET

Trump’s top general foresees acute risks in an attack on Iran Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine has cautioned that a lack of munitions and allied support could mean greater danger for U.S. troops, say people familiar with the discussions.

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Trump from an attack on Iran, saying that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel.

Ah, I see "U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the public release of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into whether President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents after his first term in the White House."
So naturally....
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Your country on Trumpism/Millerism.

The Case For Billionaire Realism We can quibble with each other over the usefulness of class-warfare rhetoric—but conflict is inevitable.

"[W]e’re clearly past the point at which the community of billionaires as it exists can be cajoled into allowing the democratic process to unfold as intended, and then respecting its outcomes."
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‘We will look like schmucks!’ GOP infighting erupts as senator revolts against leadership Last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described the idea of “nuking the filibuster” – a procedural rule that allows senators to block a vote – “something that doesn't have a future,” but...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) "warned on Saturday that if his GOP colleagues refuse to nuke the filibuster, Republicans would end up looking like “schmucks.”

You're a little late for that, Ron.
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This idiot perpetually sounds like a kid trying to bluff his way through an oral report on a book he didn’t read.
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"There is a style to how Republican lawyers increasingly write and speak that is not just insultingly hyperbolic but alarmingly disconnected from reality." Marc Elias is now convinced "that the Republican Party has completely lost its mind."
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Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"Citizens are neither stopping nor impeding the government’s work. They are merely documenting it. And for this affront, the government treats them as adversaries to be controlled, intimidated, arrested, beaten, and occasionally killed."
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Opinion | What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals

Kristof: "I fear that we’re retreating: There has been little outcry as Trump has diverted federal law enforcement officers from catching child predators so the officers could take part in his immigration crackdown.... [T]his may be a good time to be a trafficker."
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WATCH: “This administration can’t be trusted… ‘the work’ is not killing 🇺🇸 citizens… The Democratic position in 2026 is we don’t terrorize 🇺🇸 citizens & undocumented people.”

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social doesn’t let Smug Scott Jennings rattle him— as he calls for ICE to be abolished

"Force is an essential element of the crime."

Intimidation is an essential element of harassing citizens under the Trump regime.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

As Karen got to know the guards...where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
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"I think the overall goal is to stop elections and to have a complete fascistic state. Any controversy that they can make and elevate to a hysterical pitch allows them to cancel elections or modify elections in any way they want."

Bigly Brother is not watching out for you, only for himself. If you want to see the law take its course, take your criminal complaints somewhere that the rule of law still applies.
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