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I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

they’re not gonna build the camps and then leave them empty. they’ve already telegraphed using the insurrection and the military to round people up. and it won’t just be immigrants, documented or otherwise. the EO on birthright is just the first step on the road to stripping people of citizenship

A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" "I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that." "Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

This reads like the kind of letter you send before filing litigation.

We could really use some more specifics here on the legal authority in question

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...

Trump sold a bunch of people into slavery in El Salvador—under false pretenses if that matters to you—and when a federal judge told him to reverse that, Trump unlawfully refused, and now the Supreme Court needs to give it a think; apparently they think selling kidnap victims into slavery has merit.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

One of the primary Nazi impulses is to destroy all things of value.

bio gone

"5. Remember professional ethics.

This needs to be said more and loudly.

The Trump administration essentially says it can't confirm or deny whether El Salvador is complying with the Convention Against Torture because it might damage trust with El Salvador. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

DOJ: Attorney General Pamela Bondi Launches Compliance Review Investigation into Admissions Policies at Stanford University and Several University of California Schools, Advancing President Trump's Mandate to End Illegal DEl Policies

Hopefully the California schools have more fight in them than Columbia. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attor...

"Sec. 2. Saving our Smithsonian.…including by seeking to remove improper ideology from such properties…."

"Removing improper ideology" doesn't sound at all Soviet or Orwellian.

It's exactly the sort of thing a country with "a history of liberty" (as this EO says elsewhere) would do to celebrate the freedoms that have made it great.

Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retained A federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all Signal messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist. The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, compelled defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to save their texts from 11 to 15 March. Continue reading...

Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

This museum is amazing. I'm not religious, but the slavery exhibit nonetheless felt like a sacred space of remembrance. It is profoundly moving.

So of course these evil contemptible fools would attempt to desecrate it.

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by

It's just as cursed as you'd imagine www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

A principle that you’re unwilling to make sacrifices to defend isn’t a principle; it’s a convenience.

This is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever seen

/2 It doesn’t matter in the slightest that these not actually be gang members, any more than it matters that not everybody charged with a crime did it. The state dictating who is The Other, and it being an article of faith, is the point.

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

wow this SUCKS

Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

freedom, the constitution, the rule of law, national security, fairness, truth, decency, efficiency, competence, anti-corruption, the economy, farmers, veterans, the military, health, education, etc etc

no Republican gives a shit about any of it; any of them who claim they do are beyond laughable