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Former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni was ordered to tell a judge that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gang member and terrorist. "That is not factually correct."

Reuveni: "They did everything to him in violation of his due process rights. What's to stop them if they decide they don't like you anymore?"

Bondi on Fox:
"People protesting immigration enforcement raids were members of what she described as “organized crime” syndicates.

“They are no different than [notoriously violent El Salvadorean gang] MS-13,” she said.

can you imagine? The AG of the US equates peaceful protest w/ organized crime.

Lindsey Halligan indicts Letitia James on one count of bank fraud in EDVA. We are in an absolute nightmare.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”

One of the highlights of the year for us is to elevate great authors by selecting stories to send to #pushcart for consideration.

We are only allowed to send six, but could easily have sent many more epic tales! (Part 2)

#philosophy #ethics #shortstory #fiction #litmag

Too perfect.

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

I stand with Maya Song.

@jvl.bsky.social This is what you were talking about in your last article.

NO. “ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show after *being pressured by FCC Chair*.” I honestly don’t get why speaking up for liberal democracy is so hard.

NO. “ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show after *being pressured by FCC Chair*.” I honestly don’t get why speaking up for liberal democracy is so hard.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

In the lead-up to the American Revolution, throughout the colonies, people understood that the punishments Britain waged against Boston were against ALL of them.

Chicago is all of us.

So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.

Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.

by Pete Hegseth

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Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered that “Alligator Alcatraz,” a Florida immigration detention center, be shut down, at least temporarily, within 60 days.

I walk the streets of Downtown Atlanta every damn day. For years. I don’t recognize this fictional hellhole the vice president has created. Whatever lies it takes I guess. Right, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social?

Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

It’s not just idiotic but evil to pressure history-preserving institutions like the Smithsonian to whitewash ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ but that’s exactly what Trump is doing: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country.

And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side.

Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.

I’m an American: beaming with patriotic pride as I join other Americans doing the work of democracy. At a time of demagoguery, in which the loudest individual voices play on our baser emotions, We the People will collectively drown them out, as we always have, with demands for a more perfect union.

Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.

New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime

"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."

Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C.
www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

If this is about crime, then why not deploy the Guard to all the cities in the South with worse crime rates?

“Because this is our nation’s capital!”

Oh! So you do get the difference between violence at the Capitol vs. during protests the previous summer! I always figured you did.