Ursa, Dragon Lady

The "anti-war" candidate was a lie. Trump is ramping up aggression in Venezuela/Iran while blowing up our NATO alliances. Congressional Republicans are complicit, refusing to stop him or look out for the voters.

Supreme Court Doesn't Rule on Tariffs, With Next Potential Decision in February The US Supreme Court didn’t rule on President Donald Trump’s tariffs Tuesday, meaning it probably will be at least another month before a challenge to his signature economic policy is resolved.

The US Supreme Court didn’t rule on President Donald Trump’s tariffs Tuesday, meaning it probably will be at least another month before a challenge to his signature economic policy is resolved.

The Civil Rights Division is going to charge a Black Man under the Ku Klux Klan Act on MLK day.

Do I have that right?

Judges in the Eastern District of Virginia have opened an application process for a new U.S. attorney a clear sign that Trump’s preferred pick, Lindsey Halligan, has exceeded the legal time limit to remain in the role.

This move escalates a growing standoff between the district’s judges

California judge’s dismantling of DOJ’s voter roll lawsuit could resonate nationwide A federal judge’s comprehensive rebuke of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) aggressive campaign for California’s voter rolls last week could hurt DOJ’s cases against other states, experts say.

NEW: After the dismissal of the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking California’s unredacted voter registration data, experts are now saying the ruling could make waves nationwide by encouraging courts to treat the Trump administration’s claims with the skepticism they deserve.

AP Source: Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

Virginia takes key step to end ‘overt and intended effort to block Black people from voting’ Read more here.

In a huge win for voting rights, the Virginia Senate approved a measure to automatically restore voting rights to people with prior felony convictions. If the measure is approved, it would explicitly recognize voting as a fundamental right in the state constitution.

Matthew McConaughey AI Deepfakes: Actor Trademarks Likeness to Fight Impersonation Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use, setting a potential precedent for digital rights.

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use, setting a potential precedent for digital rights.

Would be amazing if European leaders would also start throwing out truth bombs like this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries By Investing.com Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer

www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

there's no answer to the question 'what's it gonna take?' but that doesn't stop it from popping into my head every goddamn time I look at the news

I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people.

Trumpism is fascism.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

🧵

As a biochemist I cannot say it more.

STOP W THE MILK.

You need to wash with soapy water to get tear gas and pepper balls/spray off of you. It is NOT MILK-Soluble .

Also remove clothing & leave outside by cutting the clothing off. Leave SHOES outside & even under clothing for gas. 👀.

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Locals reject U.S. plans to annex Greenland, says Julie Rademacher, chair of the organization Uagut, which represents Greenlanders in Denmark.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/20/greenland_denmark_trump

It started already actually

Home Depot is letting this #ICELawlessness happen to their own customers!

Their own flippin customers!

This #Thanksgiving, #BlackFriday & #cybermonday I'll be spending money anywhere but there, Target or Amazon.

It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.

Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”

Criminal charges against both James Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed by the presiding federal judges.

X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...

As soon as it appeared live for users, X was flooded with viral posts showing that numerous high-engagement, MAGA-branded accounts that present themselves as those of patriotic Americans appear to instead be based overseas, including in Eastern Europe, Thailand, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

Every accusation is a confession work folks like this.

BREAKING: Striking Starbucks baristas and their allies are demonstrating in Newport Beach today.

Why?

Because the company has racked up more federal labor law violations than any other corporation IN U.S. HISTORY!

Stand with these workers as they protest unfair labor practices!

I’m done funding cruelty. Starbucks denies workers contracts.Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. #WeAintBuyingIt

Abbott Releases—and Blacks Out—1,400 Pages of Emails With Elon Musk Texas Governor Greg Abbott was forced to reveal his emails with Musk. He didn’t totally comply.

After Texas news outlets made a public records request to see emails Gov. Abbott and Musk’s companies, state officials took months fighting and delaying their release.

Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/gAr6UQy

Lindsey Halligan Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment Grand jurors have to vote on indictments to approve them, but a prosecutor told the judge in the case that only the foreperson formally approved the second charging document, a move that could…

I will confess, I have never seen a situation before where the grand jury never saw the indictment, so the remedy is unknown, but I can’t believe an unseen indictment could be valid.
Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

I guess they will get an airbase in the US as well?