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Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

ahhh yes the wise thinkers calling M4A unpopular

third way really has its finger on the pulse with its opposition to a billionaire tax. really smart election-maximizing moderation here folks

The Supreme Court in 2022: Women do not have a right to make important decisions about their health

The Supreme Court in 2026: Parents obviously have a right to make important decisions about their children’s health

Kgan dissent Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v. Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges, ...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v. Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right grounded in substantive due process, explained that the “Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur- ring). There are many such statements to choose from in this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s.. —————— Footnote 2 For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.

Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..."
Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

this is completely batshit.

CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

DeSantis-led Florida has rejected $11 billion in federal funding in recent years Gov. Ron DeSantis and state administrators have rejected at least $11 billion in federal funds in the past few years because there were strings attached, they “politicized” roads, or were just too …

“The programs include an expansion of Medicaid, rebates for energy-saving appliances/upgrades, program to cut motor vehicle emissions, and summer lunches for children from low-income families. Millions of mostly low-income Floridians could have benefited from the funding…”

During the DeSantis admin, he has repeatedly refused federal money appropriated to states to help residents but has asked for more than $1 billion to imprison them.

New records show Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million per day on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration planned to spend more than a billion dollars on the immigration detention facility in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz, according to court records.

There are several revelations here:

- Federal reimbursements have not come as promised.
- Warden is making $1K per day salary.
- Sanitation has already cost nearly $100 million.
- FEMA has repeatedly denied releasing funds request by the state.

NOTE
1 Pregnant because raped in custody
2 Moved to TX because the regime has anticipated a need to circumvent state laws regarding abortion, medical rights
3 the infants in question will likely be trafficked into evangelical adoption networks or be subject the consequences of a lack of medical care

the best thing the nobel committee could do is give the peace prize to netanyahu. trump will get so mad and the american-israeli relationship will be over

75 years ago, the 22nd Amendment was ratified.

It’s a good day to remember what the 22nd Amendment ratified: that presidents are limited to TWO terms in office.

No exceptions.

These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times" as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation. Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Doesn't seem too hard to believe, does it?
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

Hillary Clinton finding out Lauren Boebert is posting photos of her testimony: "If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. this is just typical behavior... We all are abiding by the same rules."

Boebert: "I... I will take that down."

Boston University's Jenga building tonight in its golden-hour glory.

I’m so sick of the Taliban.

Sec. Hegseth admitted he doesn’t care about military rules of engagement: “America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise airpower campaign in history." trib.al/aEbx8Lo

Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?"

Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely."

"Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers … That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

The Kentucky House just passed this machine gun conversion ban, though 25 Republicans did break off to vote against it. #kyga26

Q: What are our objectives and how were the soldiers who were killed killed?

HEGSETH: To ensure they can't use a conventional umbrella to continue a pursuit of nuclear ambitions. As it pertains to the US casualties, every once in a while you might have a squirter that makes it's way through

Measuring the economic damage of Minnesota’s ICE surge is hard • Minnesota Reformer Emerging statistics on the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota — $203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis, $106 million in lost wages in the Twin Cities — are based on limited data an...

Estimates of the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota, via @minnesotareformer.com:

$203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis

$106 million in lost wages throughout the Twin Cities

The only ones who caused chaos and property damage is ICE

New billboards in L.A., across America decry ICE funding: ‘Your tax money wasted’  An organization has launched a nationwide campaign that includes 200 billboards that claiming Americans’ tax dollars are being “wasted” on federal immigration funding.   Mijente Support …

New billboards in L.A., across America decry ICE funding: ‘Your tax money wasted’

Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

Truly dystopic.

"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation