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Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

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DOJ apparently thinks they can make pen-and-ink edits to Article I of the Constitution

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Checking in to see how Bolling’s career is going 18 months after getting canned as Newsmax’s prime time host.

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

This was literally already asked.

Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus - emptywheel Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.

Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/06/g...

Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made One of the biggest challenges I’ve had in the last nine months...

"This is definitionally fairly close to warlordism, a broken state in which the leader holds on to power if not legitimacy by hoarding state resources for loyalists and depriving opponents of any of them." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

Nowhere in this story is it mentioned that the regime has no power to issue such an “order.”

Chart shows 2 years into its military operation against Hamas, a growing share of Americans say Israel is ‘going too far’

2 years into the war, Americans’ skepticism of Israel’s military operation against Hamas and the Israeli government has grown:

39% now say Israel is going too far in its military operation against Hamas
59% now hold an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government

www.pewresearch.org/...

Note the Admin and national influencers are entirely willing to throw Trump-voting local law enforcement under the bus and claim those cops are literally antifa, if that's what it takes to advance their narrative (and punish the local LE for not backing up the false claims about 'war ravaged')

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

25% of the political and social culture of the modern American Right is being upset at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Trump’s Directive on ‘Organized Political Violence’ Could Lead to Increased Surveillance of His Critics The president issued a directive that could make dissent riskier for people and nonprofits.

“They are deliberately blurring the line between speech protected by the First Amendment and violence or other unlawful activity, and they seem to be quite explicitly listing viewpoints that they don’t like as predicates for an all-of-government crackdown."

Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

Durham indicted three people over the course of his years-long investigation. One took a plea. The two others went to trial and were acquitted. So that’s the guy who felt there was no evidence against Comey

This is the issue. Weiss was one of the "journalists" bestowed with the Twitter Files, which revealed some troubling jawboning, but wildly overstated its case. She's now the beneficiary of an unprecedented, openly censorious government project to purge and remake a media institution.

Yes and also feel free to group message me at swin24.68

I also don’t think that children who might grow up to be sex workers or drug users deserve to suffer from preventable diseases

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Again, I agree

Wait, you're saying that writers who oppose the Trump government should be worried?

Good thing I've avoided THAT mistake

I think this is right:
"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

If I had more guts, I’d write about something like that, but I’m too busy keeping my head down:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Some of you are saying that because of NSPM-7, you're blanking out your social media accounts and going to ground.

Has it occurred to you that \the intent behind issuing this gigantic, unconstitutional, and unenforceable thing was to get you to do exactly that?

Who's telling you to "wait?" My argument is: act using the tools of democracy because *you still have them* Constantly saying that "it's over, fascism is now here" is incorrect, defeatist, and a dead-end.

When did we become such a rigid and blinkered people that everything is either fine or fatal?

Vladeck: "labeling groups 'domestic terrorist organizations' is an exercise in legally empty but rhetorically dangerous symbolism...trying to coerce more and more individuals and groups to 'obey in advance,' even though there are no new substantive rules that they need to actually obey"

Vote for a Democrat? What kind of crazy talk is this?