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Suspected Venezuela Drug Boat Had Turned Around Before U.S. Strike The White House said more vessels will be targeted despite unease on Capitol Hill over the legality of attacks.

A US military aircraft struck a boat suspected of smuggling drugs several times from the air last week, even though the vessel had turned around and was headed for shore before the strike began. The boat was hit several times until there was no movement on board. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

YouTube video by DarkMatter2525 Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke

Telling it like it is... I especially liked the part where the real story of the 'insane leftist' meme is exposed as the opposite of what is often presented... Originated from the 'calm and untriggered Alex Jones'.

The last 10 minutes is satirical comedy gold.

So, if you've ever said something negative about someone on the right, you are responsible for Kirk's death and will be hunted down by the government. And I can't call that fascism because it will cause me to be hunted down by the government. But they are free speech absolutists.

I'm confused

Isn't his administration the ones who have been going after judges, though?

YouTube video by Malcolm Nance Remember Your Oath: Washington DC

#RememberYourOath
With @malcolmnance.bsky.social and @jollygoodginger.bsky.social in DC at Union station.

General Milley's speech:

"We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator"

youtu.be/QE72Z92Miwc

“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”

Divided Federal Circuit Gets It Right on Trump’s Unlawful Tariffs | National Review The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency.

"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. …
www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...

Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein - emptywheel Kristi Noem has responded to a fourth request from Kilmar Abrego for an order gagging her unsubstantiated claims about him by creating a false censorship attack on CBS.

Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...

As president, Trump scrapped the successful diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue and escalated with Iran.

After leaving, his criticism of the Gaza war was that Israel wasn't being violent enough.

Then people who say they oppose war in the Middle East voted to give him power a second time.

New thread: there is a press conference regarding the arrest here in East Los Angeles at Ruben Salazar Park. A few dozen, but noticeably growing in size.

Also quick fact check: the authorities were with Homeland Security per HS social media.

📌NOTE: Sending the Marines into ANY U.S. city would be the greatest, anti-American insult TO THE MARINES I have seen in my entire lifetime.

📌This is weak, disgusting and NOT THEIR MISSION. Be about time for retired Marines to start speaking up, because you KNOW you are better than this.

-Navy guy

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Immigration officials target 3 Los Angeles sites in raids condemned by area leaders “Approximately 44 people” were administratively arrested ​​and one person was arrested on an obstruction charge, Homeland Security Investigations said.

MAGA calls most immigrants freeloaders and criminals, but when ICE wants to make quota they show up at workplaces around the country

No judicial arrest warrant in sight because they're not after criminals

44 "administrative" arrests. 44+ lives upended

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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helpful article from your friends at Reason reason.com/2018/05/31/h...

Also a recurring Trump theme is insisting that it would be an unthinkable catastrophe if he were denied powers or immunities that no other president has ever enjoyed, or indeed, even had the chutzpah to claim.

@primevideo.bsky.social Shame on you Bezos for cancelling the Wheel of Time, just when it was recovering from the effects of covid (S1 - limited marketing), writers strike (S2 - no marketing) and then critically acclaimed S3, which again received limited marketing compared to Rings of Power.

What’s the point of making a TV show anymore? If it’s not reality slop or murder-of-the-week, it never gets to end on its own terms. The third season of Wheel of Time is cinematically gorgeous and made big swings, and while it took a lot of creative liberties from the books it was fun. Dammit!

No lies detected from The Great Jon Stewart 👇

#ResistTrump

YouTube video by Leeja Miller The Ideology Behind The End Of Democracy

If you want to understand the rise of tech bro fascism, their particular weird brand of scientific racism and eugenics, AI obsession, and their determination to make everything worse, you NEED to learn about the Dark Enlightenment ideology that animates these guys.

Watch @leejamiller.bsky.social:

NO ONE? I think the President has been declared above the law, so that statement just isn't factually correct... You'd think they would remember that, they cheered it when it was declared.

Some big law firms: We have to lie the way the president tells us to, admit to wrongdoing we did not do, and provide pro-bono work to help attack rule of law, or we might lose corporate clients.

Big corporate client: We’d prefer pro-law lawyers who fight rather than fold, thank you very much.

@skyview.social unroll

Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become? At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.

“This raises an existential question: is our civic virtue so spent that we cannot rescue the republic from the sewer it has fallen into?”

www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

The "No Kings" argument seems pretty superficial...but it's not. Trump has a childlike idea of the power of the president. He views the job as being the most powerful (and famous) man in the world and he hates anything about it that suggests his power (or fame) is limited.

Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families “It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.”

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

Ten years ago I’d have dismissed this as the pathetic wishcasting of a fascist, pinchbeck intellectual.

It’s now clear that the moment they think they can get away with this, they will absolutely try it.