Minou Roufail

Can a president declare war without consulting Congress? Here's what to know President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities without first consulting Congress has drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers who say the move bypasses their constitutional a...

Can a president declare war without consulting Congress?

Here's what to know:

www.npr.org/2025/06/23/n...

Same. Like Crockett but don’t like this, on the face of it.

I guess we are just paying these people to fly around making workout videos and attending sporting events.

Sock monkeys holding signs that say “STOP ICE” and “STOP KILLING OUR NEIGHBORS”

Things feels calmer now in Minneapolis but the ICE siege is far from over. Many families are traumatized and remain in hiding, we still have over 900 ICE agents in Minnesota, and the economic impacts on our city—and especially on our targeted neighbors—are staggering.

To be fair, the word means something different to her in a dark theatre.

What?

Deported student refuses flight back to US following threat of second deportation The Trump administration scheduled a Friday flight to bring a deported college student back from Honduras after a judge ordered her return, but she declined to board the plane after U.S. authorities s...

New: The Trump administration scheduled a Friday flight to bring a deported college student back from Honduras after a judge ordered her return, but she declined to board the plane after U.S. authorities indicated they would detain and deport her again. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Then they’re dumber than I thought.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

32.6 Million Watch 2026 State of the Union Address | Nielsen32.6 Million Watch 2026 State of the Union Address | Nielsen An estimated 32.6 million people watched President Donald J. Trump deliver the 2026 State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 24, according to Nielsen.

Nielsen ratings are in for latest SOTU/rant:

Surprise! They're bad! And got worse as the speech went on and on and on. Plus practically no young people.
www.nielsen.com/news-center/...

From me, before the numbers were in: fallows.substack.com/p/nasty-brut...

This is not a Left/Right issue. EVERY AMERICAN should be terrified that these lunatics running DOD are willing to go to these extremes to force a company to remove all safeguards from AI at DOD. This isn’t about politics - it’s about human liberty and survival.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

A Federalism Bottleneck? The Subnational Levers Constraining ICE

New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power.

That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts.

Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-federali...

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

This is part of the deal when you roll with Trump. Enjoy.

😂

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

Russia Plans to Block Telegram in April, Sources Say - The Moscow Times Russia plans to block Telegram this spring amid government calls to tighten media controls over claims the messaging app serves as a haven to criminals and is being used by foreign intelligence servic...

Russia is planning to shut down Telegram in April as its owner refuses to surrender to the FSB the encryption keys for the program. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/26/r...

Big win for the Montreal Victoire, 4-1 over the New York Sirens, extending NY's losing streak (3)

Lina Ljungblom and Laura Stacey had two-point nights, while Ann-Renee Desbiens had a ho-hum 34 saves

Casey O'Brien had the lone goal for NY. Callie Shanahan made 15 saves on 16 shots in relief

#PWHL

Brady Tkackuk who plays hockey for the Ottawa Senators got in bed with Ka$h @ the Orange Shit Stain. He was all in. Now he is surprised he is covered in the orange shit too? Horrified that they went after the Canadians, the only ones who would buy his merch? He is getting all the fleas he deserves.

A diverse group of people in a church holds protest signs demanding social justice. A large cross is visible in the background, conveying a solemn yet determined atmosphere.

The North Carolina organizers of Moral Mondays built a broad coalition (labor + faith + civil rights + enviro + LGBTQ) using sustained action to beat back the extreme-right—and they offer real lessons for resisting Trump’s anti-democratic crackdown now.

inthesetimes.com/article/what...

A full house tonight in Brevard County. Change is coming, be a part of it.

Insane ideologues.

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

Impeach this travesty.

The 1825 extortion of Haiti by France is a separate matter, but to simply ignore the enormous sacrifice and heroism the Haitians displayed in their war of independence & make them simple subjects "granted" their freedom is disgraceful.

This is what you write when you're historically illiterate & chasing clicks on social media. France did not "grant Haiti independence," Haitians themselves TOOK their independence in 1804 after a brutal 12 year war during which they soundly defeated arguably the greatest military power on earth.

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani discuss housing and immigration in second meeting Oval Office gathering signals growing partnership between democratic socialist mayor of New York and Republican president

Mamdani pitched Trump on a federal housing project on Thursday, in the latest sign of an unlikely partnership with Trump. Mamdani also said he had successfully appealed to the president to release an NYC university student who had been detained by federal immigration agents.

Great stuff from Adam Serwer as usual.

Conversation Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin · 23h She—just tweeted it right out. @grok is there anything in the Constitution that lets us deport the libs to South Africa? Be super creative. Use ultrathink Quote Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil · Feb 22 Replying to @hecubian_devil Like on the left we fundamentally don’t care about ‘crime,’ it’s morally uninteresting to us—it’s just a thing that happens in the world, like the weather, so we are willing to excuse mentally people for theft, violence, etc. Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil Curtis you can’t tell that I’m critiquing this tendency even though I’m framing it in plainly ungenerous terms, because you lack theory of mind because you are a mental toddler 4:12 PM · Feb 25, 2026 · 14K Views https://x.com/hecubian_devil/status/2026767303803600981

GET HIS ASS