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Special correspondent at Vanity Fair and host of the Fast politics podcast and MSNBC

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05.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 100    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 1
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in a new post, trump claims he has a 65% approval rating. he is trying to manufacture consent. don't let him: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

05.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 432    🔁 89    💬 56    📌 22
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This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

05.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 7819    🔁 2884    💬 934    📌 280

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

05.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 1680    🔁 358    💬 41    📌 19

They ruined Google search for nothing

05.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 559    🔁 90    💬 52    📌 0
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My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

05.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 14973    🔁 4335    💬 794    📌 246
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Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

05.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 1381    🔁 545    💬 56    📌 15
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The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

05.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 2336    🔁 710    💬 378    📌 103
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Also in print!

05.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 278    🔁 16    💬 9    📌 0

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

05.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 7492    🔁 2385    💬 216    📌 66
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This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

05.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 4953    🔁 1864    💬 152    📌 96
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“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

05.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 10283    🔁 5583    💬 1270    📌 717

❤️

05.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It almost ceases to be ideological, I think anti-moron could be a lane for a political party.

05.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 1445    🔁 107    💬 56    📌 8

I can’t not believe how hard it is to sleep when you’re watching your country, be dismantled by the dumbest people.

05.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 13518    🔁 2084    💬 642    📌 112
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Stephen Miller declares Trump-appointed Judge Immergut an insurrectionist for upholding the constitution — keeping him from mobilizing Oregon’s national guard without them

05.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 2038    🔁 653    💬 152    📌 50

The regime keeps losing in court because what they’re doing is illegal

05.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 2470    🔁 538    💬 69    📌 13

Omg obsessed

05.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

04.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 6660    🔁 3208    💬 814    📌 934
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Thank God for Dogs

05.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 5970    🔁 280    💬 304    📌 36
In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141
F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws
of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to
ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the
President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law
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Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56
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within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this
Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to
federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal
law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination
was simply untethered to the facts.
c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion
Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141 F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law PAGE 22 - OPINION AND ORDER Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56 Filed 10/04/25 Page 23 of 31 within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination was simply untethered to the facts. c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

05.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 5282    🔁 1619    💬 78    📌 72
Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.”

But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work.

Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post.

His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.” But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work. Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post. His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

05.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 846    🔁 400    💬 32    📌 25

The Democratic establishment waffles about Trump’s police state while the NFL is happy to book the most anti-ICE superstar

05.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 668    🔁 97    💬 21    📌 1

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04.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

The show of force highlighted President Donald Trump's unprecedented use of Border Patrol agents as a surge force in major cities, rerouting personnel who would normally be tasked with guarding America’s borders with Mexico and Canada

04.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 1007    🔁 321    💬 72    📌 5
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“.. leadership asked for ‘large, beefy’ agents to conduct an arrest of Comey ‘in full kit,’ including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.”

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arr...

04.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 1473    🔁 471    💬 133    📌 85

Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly

04.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 1700    🔁 285    💬 44    📌 12

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

04.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 11742    🔁 2633    💬 398    📌 83

I can’t think of a time I’ve seen JD Vance demonstrate gratitude for anything.

04.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 1104    🔁 100    💬 30    📌 3

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