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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

BREAKING: Trump has unilaterally declared the war on drugs to be a hot war, and intends to commit US Troops to it.

“This is not stretching the envelope. This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart.” -Former JAG and Army advisor on war law.

It's the Department of Forever War.

This is not going anywhere good. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

What to Expect at the Meeting of the Generals This is not the kind of military audience Trump has addressed before.

My latest in @thebulwark.com

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-to-ex...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.”

Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB

It's funny, she has a problem with people transitioning, but not F-18s. 🏳️‍⚧️✈️

The Many Ways in Which the Caribbean Strike was Unlawful Legal expert on domestic authority and law most relevant to the US strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat

This is bone chilling : www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

National Guard collects unfavorable public input on D.C. deployment Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.

“If they’re picking up trash, they’re not here for a security emergency. There’s no clearer metric than that.” @jkdemp.bsky.social

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that.

The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom."

Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.

The good old American value of freedom is an accurate and appealing counter.

It captures just about everything:
-troops in US cities bad because freedom
-ICE violating rights bad because freedom
-let trans people be themselves because freedom
-don't censor To Kill a Mockingbird because freedom
etc.

A massive Trump scandal. Minuscule media attention. Historically, financial entanglements with foreign nationals has been covered as a scandal. Times have changed.

1. The media is normalizing Trump's corruption.

There is a massive scandal that almost all media outlets are ignoring.

It involves a new Trump Tower that will be constructed in Bucharest.

Follow this thread for details.

popular.info/p/the-medias...

Supreme Court allows mass layoffs at Education Department as Trump seeks to close the agency The justices, by an apparent 6-3 vote, lifted an injunction against the firings.

If the President has the authority to take actions to downsize/close a Department without being authorized by Congress, which is what the Supreme Court just permitted, then I guess a new administration has full control to do whatever they want to ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Will Pete Hegseth’s ‘War on Woke’ Sideline Women? Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief moderated his stance to get the job but is now pushing for change in the name of high standards.

Pete Hegseth’s office is “preparing to release a new, military-wide physical-fitness test,” Missy Ryan writes. The effect, and potentially the goal, may be advancing a process to squeeze women out of combat units:

REPORTER: Ukraine has asked the international court to go after Russia for using toxic chemicals in the fight

TRUMP WHISPERING TO HEGSETH: What do you know about this?

HEGSETH WHISPERING: John might know

TRUMP: Well, I'd ask John to discuss it

"[The district court's] temporary, practical, harm-reducing preservation of the status quo was no match for this Court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture" - Justice Jackson, dissenting.

Who's running the country then?

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Gulag 2.0 — Russia Reopens the Camps New legislation working its way through Russia’s rubber-stamp parliament foreshadows a harsh crackdown across Putin’s despotic state.

“Putin may be hesitant to increase his war effort even further, apparently wary of torpedoing his economy, but his beloved security service shows no hesitation at all in returning to large-scale repression. Now it’s getting ready for that.” @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan

Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Making Us More Vulnerable to Domestic Terrorism Law enforcement can only do so much at one.

When you use up scarce law enforcement resources going after cooks and farmworkers, and put a bunch of unqualified lackeys in key leadership posts, can you possibly think you're making America safer? ICYMI Will Selber: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mass...

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"

Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian Retaliation Underway 🚨

Here’s what we know so far:

- Iran has launched “Operation Glad Tidings of Victory” targeting U.S. forces.
- At least 6 missiles fired at U.S. bases in Qatar.
- Explosions heard over Doha, possibly intercepted.
- U.S. jets scrambling over Saudi Arabia.
1/

Seems a lot like WMD (i.e., new forever war)

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