Mooremusings

Obama should just a post a photo today with his Nobel medal casually propped on a credenza behind him.

Typically, when you are mobilizing the armed forces against your own people, you’re not a leader of courage and integrity, and you’re not a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

The malicious prosecution of Attorney General Tish James is baseless.

And the indictment is not worth the paper it is written on.

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

This indictment isn’t about the law, it’s about political revenge directed by Donald Trump at someone he deems his enemy. There’s a reason why both the U.S. Attorney and career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia refused to bring forward this baseless indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James — and why they were replaced by a hand-picked, unqualified sycophant with no prosecutorial experience. Donald Trump doesn’t care about the law or an independent Department of Justice. Weeks ago, Trump publicly demanded the weaponization of our justice system and today, the department dutifully carried out his orders. This is a line that cannot be uncrossed. The DNC joins the Democratic Attorneys General Association in condemning this politically motivated attack on Attorney General James. And we encourage Americans everywhere, of any and all political affiliations, to stand against Donald Trump’s attempts to co-opt the government for retribution and intimidation.

Trump is operating with revenge in mind, not the rule of law.

The DNC stands with New York Attorney General Letitia James against his latest political attack.

My full statement on her baseless indictment:

They couldn't get Black people to act up so Miller is just going to pull the trigger anyway.

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

when you are worried that THIS supreme court will rule against you on invoking the insurrection act, a statute that famously gives enormous deference to the president ... maybe that's a sign that your military deployments are pretty baseless

Scenes from the front lines last night in war ravaged Portland, Oregon
#pdx

CA folks, I voted YES ON PROP 50.

Gerrymandering is objectively anti-democratic, but if Red and Purple states are going to do it (and they are), then the only way to ultimately put a stop to it is for Blue states to respond in-kind. Having the moral high ground won’t save Democracy.

Black people are angry and it’s justified.

The U.S. blueprint for attacking us is being used again though far too many white media /Americans continue to liken Trump/Stephen Miller & Kegsbreath & RFK’s actions to Germany

Fellow whites, we were warned that the Dem party would eventually be deemed a terrorist organization and anybody organizing and fundraising for it would be branded a terrorist. We were told many times. We chose this anyway. The easy way was electing VP Harris in November, but we chose the hard way.

This part.

Y'all "progressive" resisters would have never made it during the civil rights movement.

Y'all too busy waiting to Outlook your protest and marches.

🔥🔥🔥

The only reason we don’t have Medicare for all is because “all” included Black people.

He's still more than able to gouge taxpayers to house and feed the Secret Service while he's shut the government down.

Fellow whites: We talk about wanting the revolution, but what we really want, are the rewards of the revolution, without actually doing any revolting. Here are some ideas to get us started: Pool our money, vehicles, child-rearing, food, etc to help each other during the protests. The protests 1/4

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119 How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that various limits on our remedial power independently require us to reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. •It is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied "administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159 F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue" because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to "consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary, without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S. Code. The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further consideration consistent with this decision.

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

“I have nothing to do with [it]. .. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it.”

- Trump, Sept 2024

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries Leader Jeffries Appearance on PBS NewsHour

Watching this, I see why he pissed them off so much.
That man stays on message. He steers everything back to the points he's there to make.
He doesn't perform for you.
Anchor tried and tried. 1/
youtu.be/lIj7Wnz42nk?...

The government is shut down. For those just tuning in, here’s what happened:
 
1) We said we needed to help Americans pay their health insurance bills.
 
2) Republicans hated the idea and stonewalled us.
 
3) They shut down the government (which they control all chambers of) without negotiating.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Oh hell yes

*SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO LET TRUMP IMMEDIATELY OUST FED'S COOK

Joe Biden didn't cause a government shutdown