Rick Frenkel

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156. Federalizing the California National Guard President Trump's Saturday night "memorandum" federalizing 2000 California National Guard troops is a tentative step toward abusing authorities for domestic use of the military, but a dangerous one.

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

Tell them no.

I have to say, I am really enjoying Justice Jackson’s concurrences and dissents today. Especially in this case. She’s a pleasure to read and really sheds light on the true nature of the disputes how she sees them.

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

What the First 100 Days Taught Us About Resisting Trump For starters, it’s better to push back than to appease.

FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.

My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.

A picture shows 32 men arranging themselves into an SOS on the ground of a prison yard. The ground is bare earth. All the men are wearing red or orange prison jumpsuits.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.

11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

In defense of our institutional independence This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.

Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

newrepublic.com/article/1939...

I am someone who has been funding the Michigan LEAD scholars program. I understand there are workarounds that comply with the administration’s view of the law that are being explored and will be implemented. Justice will (hopefully) always find a way to prevail.

Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus.

This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.

Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture.

That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves (Gift Article) People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

My NYT colleague Elisabeth Bumiller has already written an outstanding piece on this exact point. I am just noting that I am encoutering this again and again, almost every day. Here is Elisabeth's piece from last month.

nyti.ms/3R9xkon

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.

“For those who have lost everything in climate disasters, the apocalypse has already arrived. As the planet gets hotter, climate disasters will get more frequent and intense. How bad depends on how long we let the fossil fuel industry continue to call the shots.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

It was worth the wait.

@mgoblog.bsky.social just got my book and it is beautiful. Thanks to you and @mgoseth.bsky.social and the whole team. Truly.

This article is from 2016…

Was just in a CVS. Other than for picking up prescriptions, I’m trying to figure out why ever I go back.

I’m a big fan of Uncle Nearest.

What stage of grief are we in now? #goblue

A380 with British Airways logo

A380 LHR to SFO passing through my blue sky, November 2024. #avgeek

More on Judge Newman from @marklemley.bsky.social

I don’t know what I found more disturbing here: The criticism of legitimate scholarship relating to judge shopping, or the response to the question from 97-year-old currently suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who was told her removal was suspect and that “it could happen to any of us.”

Why not get Jadyn Davis some experience at this point? He wouldn’t burn his redshirt.

Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now The satirical news site The Onion has purchased conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars website following his bankruptcy proceedings. The development is a massive humiliation for one of Donald Trump’...

pls share, enjoy, laugh. we need it.

Alex Jones literally owned by the libs now www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Dog looks at ocean, pink ball with slobber visible nearby

Daisy says look at the pretty blue sky

I didn’t post that much on the other place but the dialog here is so much more refreshing, it is encouraging.

Welcome and #GoBlue

Why do pens bleed when you use them on a plane at 35,000 feet?