Umbrae Soulsbane

Incredible.

The era of CBS News as a journalistic beacon of integrity is over due in large part to Bari Weiss.

Her reign has brought censorship, bowing, and surrendering to the Trump administration.

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody.

That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term.

We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

As you watch Trump lose his shit, remember that the administration has been preparing for this SCOTUS ruling for at least a month.

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

Trump abused his authority. The power of the purse doesn’t belong to one person — tariffs are a tax, and any decision to levy the American people must be made by Congress alone. It wasn’t here, and working families paid the price.

The federal government must return the money it stole to the people.

It’s a morning for the WH to hide the ketchup bottles:

Bad GDP numbers.

Not great inflation numbers.

Tariffs overturned by SCOTUS.

I just woke up. Am I to understand that Mr Justice Originalist Thomas is of the belief that expressly committing a specific power to Congress in Article I is not enough to make it a core legislative power because the famously monarchist founders wished to preserve the prerogatives of the king?

At last. SCOTUS remembers that Congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government, to whom the Constitution assigns the power to levy taxes. One of Trump’s favorite levers is removed from the arsenal of extortion.

Trump's second term is shaping up to be an all-time disaster purely in terms of *his* policy priorities absolutely collapsing and it will be interesting to see how and when this finally filters into the way it's covered by the media

I am not sure it is just this site.

It's completely deranged how many news outlets are partnering with "prediction markets" which are just gambling with a fancy name. You'd never watch CNN if it were sponsored by roulette or the concept of "double or nothing."

GDP in Q4 was a putrid 1.4%. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Yeah my wife had a doctor over prescribe pain medicine and then call her an addict when it came to light. We had to change hospitals and this still delayed realistic treatment for her actual problems by over a year. It got bad enough to get her into the ICU where we weren't sure she would make it.

“I’m skeptical” — the Q4 GDP number is so underwhelming that Maria Bartiromo doesn’t believe it

Dun dun dun — Maria Bartiromo and company cope with a 4th quarter GDP number that is “even below the range of expectations”

bottom line: a tax is a tax. and Congress's taxing power is fundamental. Framers gave Congress
“alone access to the pockets of the people.”

That itself has been honored in the breach in Trump 2.0 and has to count as a major surprise to Trump, who has been picking the peoples' pockets from day 1.

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

Mark this down. We will never get a dime of the tariff refund Trump owes us.

This should be a massive class action suit.

These are the first words Kavanaugh uttered as a SCOTUS nominee. He stood in front of the American people and told an obvious, screaming lie intended solely for an audience of one. It was clear his first loyalty was to “the one,” not the truth or the Constitution.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Tariffs in 6-3 Vote The Supreme Court blocked the ‘emergency’ tariffs Trump had imposed, breaking with its track record of greenlighting his overreaching claims to power.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Tariffs in 6-3 Vote

The Supreme Court blocked the ‘emergency’ tariffs Trump had imposed, breaking with its track record of greenlighting his overreaching claims to power.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/supreme-co...

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

UK fascist Tommy Robinson chilling with Mike “Trump should declare martial law and remain president in 2021” Mike Flynn.

Even election officials who like voter ID have issues with the SAVE America Act "It's a classic 'show your papers’ law designed to make it harder for US citizens to vote," Sec. Jocelyn Benson said.

NEW: Some election officials believe voters should prove their citizenship and show ID before casting a ballot — but even those in support of such initiatives think the SAVE America Act takes it too far.

It’s “effectively creating a poll tax on people,” said one county clerk. “It’s a huge barrier.”

This is right: I think you will rein in Trump's bullshit best by destroying the unlawful businesses that the sons sold the Presidency on.

Jarrett Renshaw @JarrettRenshaw COLOR: Trump was speaking to a room full of U.S. governors at the White House when he was handed a note from an aide informing him of the Supreme Court decision, a source tells me. Trump was visibly frustrated and told the crowd that he had to do something about the courts, the source said. 11:09 AM · Feb 20, 2026 · 305 Views

lol

Trump should be ordered to personally reimburse us all instead of having the Treasury do it.

NEW: As expected, SCOTUS invalidates tariffs. Billionaires don’t like it when you mess with the markets. Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh dissent. Importers will now get refunds on costs they’ve already passed on to us, making the rich even richer.

The current Court majority is a classic captured court.

The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.

SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy...

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...