Live from "war ravaged" Portland

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

WATCH: U.S. military in the Caribbean an 'illegal' threat, Venezuela tells UN General Assembly President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” pri...

President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” price if it won’t accept more people deported from the U.S.
https://to.pbs.org/4pYHBUC

DOJ has sued 8 states for protecting their citizens' sensitive voter registration data. My law firm has intervened to oppose DOJ's efforts in the first two states -- Maine and Oregon.

Six more to go...

Florida’s state-run immigration detention centers omit hundreds of detainees from federal tracking Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers frequently don’t show up in the online detainee locator system.

News from DeSantisstan. Florida's State-Run Immigration Detention Centers Disappear Hundreds. Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers don’t show up in the online detainee locator system, to insure their families and lawyers can't find them. This is the crime of "disappearance.

Performative public lying as proving loyalty.

“The children are always ours,
every single one of them,
all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect
that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality.”

-James Baldwin

😂 Good point. Bondi ordered 1,000 FBI agents to review roughly 100K pages of Epstein files (the ones that don't exist but now exist again but Obama wrote) - and Senator Dick Durbin said the FBI agents were told to "flag" any mentions of Trump. This is a must read from Marcy:

“4 months without any contact with the outside world. We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast, a beating for lunch, a beating for dinner.”

Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Im so glad to hear Andry survived!

A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela.

Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This should be at least as big a deal as the cover-up of the Epstein files

Meiselas: Back in 2019 Alex Acosta resigned...But remember, Trump had his back. Trump was like, "Lots of people at the time thought Acosta did a good deal with Jeffrey Epstein." That's what Trump said when the allegations came out that Acosta entered into the non-prosecution deal with Epstein.

Supreme Court allows mass layoffs at Education Department as Trump seeks to close the agency The justices, by an apparent 6-3 vote, lifted an injunction against the firings.

NEW: #SCOTUS lets Trump proceed w/massive layoffs at Education Department-firings his lawyers say are unrelated to his plan to abolish the agency. All 3 liberal justices dissent, say conservatives are yielding to exec branch. w/@PerezJr @Becca_Carballo www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda

He said he was deporting gang members, but he also said he would the number would be 11 million people. That's almost twice the population of Missouri.

Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.

YES!

He’s right.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

If you think Superman is woke now, you should check out how he single-handedly - in real life - killed KKK recruiting in the northern states in the 1940's with the Superman Radio Series The Clan of the Fiery Cross. www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio....

Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long worked to protect voting rights. But since President Donald Trump returned to office, the DOJ’s voting section has done a dramatic 180. Today, rather than...

If you want to understand how far DOJ had slide into become an agent of the Republican voter suppression machine, take a look at this chart. www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...

Maine Supreme Court Shuts Down Right-Wing Rewrite of Anti-Voting Initiative Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Maine Supreme Court ruled Friday that the language for a high-stakes ballot question — approved by the state’s Democratic Secretary of State — will appear on the November ballot without changes, rejecting right-wing efforts to rewrite it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Court Records Show Texas Flipped Its Stance on Use of Race in Drawing Maps Read more here.

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"New evidence reveals that witnesses…potentially falsely testified that Texas’s congressional map was drawn without consideration of race,” the motion said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).

Trump when Epstein files came up: “I can’t believe you asked a question about Epstein at a time like this with what happened in TX. Seems like a desecration.”

Trump minutes later pointing to the ceiling: “Should I gold leaf the corners? Painting is easy but it won’t look right.”