If Dems and their backers are not right now cutting ads featuring Tillis to be played in Maine, Alaska, Missouri, Louisiana, and elsewhere, it’s political malpractice.

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On the left:

June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.

On the right:

June 13: See for yourself.

Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

I've spent the last few months examining the +1,450 grants terminated at the NIH, including reading hundreds of abstracts.

Many were studying how to solve or improve health disparities – not just identify or explain them.

Some of the terminated grants (h/t to @scott-delaney.bsky.social + team)

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: “The President's federal deployment of the National Guard over the official wishes of a governor is bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states rights. The governor has the authority and ability to respond to the civil disturbances with law enforcement capabilities within his state, augmented as necessary by requesting law enforcement assistance from other governors. There are over a million badged and trained members of law enforcement in this country for the governor to ask for help if he needs it. While this is presently a legal order, it tramples the governor’s rights and obligations to protect his people. This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News:

"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

If what was happening in LA was such a “national emergency”, why was the “president” in NJ smiling for the cameras at a UFC fight?

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol.

Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.

W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

Today is Day 9.

0 deals.

🚨🚨🚨🚨Trump was caught on the hot mic telling Bukele they plan on doing citizens next.

Schadenfreude alert: all of those sleazy amoral big firms absolutely would've litigated anti-environmental cases for the coal companies but now they have to do the exact same work for free. 😂

Don’t worry folks, MAGA says they’re SURE that the nepo baby who bankrupted casinos, committed egregious business fraud, added $8 trillion to our debt and left office as the worst jobs president since Herbert f’ng Hoover is going to “usher in a golden age” by crashing our economy.

Fucking idiots.

We just learned that Trump spent $40 million in taxpayer dollars to keep 400 migrants in Guantanamo for a month. For that amount of money you could pay more than 375 federal workers (at their average salary) for a full year.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More President Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.

“‘We’ve never seen a president so comprehensively attempt to arrogate and consolidate so much of the other branches’ power, let alone to do so in the first two months of his presidency,’ said Stephen Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.“

I Worry, but I Fight From Marc | Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.

Now that Trump has proven to be a ruthless autocrat, too many have grown timid and silent.

That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do.

Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...

Home from a little sign shaking down at City Hall... my sign and my FAVORITE SIGN:

Trump signs order to shift disaster preparations from Fema to state and local governments Order calls for revising infrastructure policy to better assess risks instead of ‘all-hazards approach’, White House said

Goodbye FEMA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-executive-order-fema-disaster-preparation

#fema #Politics #USpol #disasters

I am about halfway through reading the full opinion now. So far , she has pretty much accused the DOD of falsifying data and the DOJ of basically committing perjury on some key points of the defense. Despite all that though, this right here is my FAVORITE paragraph thus far...

YouTube video by Keith Edwards Nancy Pelosi TAKES DOWN Schumer and There’s NO COMING BACK!

Nancy Pelosi just said publicly what we’ve all been thinking
youtu.be/wWRgIscsgIw

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

I Worry, but I Fight From Marc | Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.

Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice. I cannot ignore what Trump is doing to our democracy and our country. Or more precisely, I will not.

So, I won’t.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...

Why I always say Senator John Kennedy panders to his base…listen to him speak about NOLA Charity hospital after Hurricane Katrina. He starts speaking about 45 sec into the video.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

Fox host: If you don't cut something in entitlements, you'll never really deal with the debt

Trump: Oh, we'll be cutting

YESTERDAY:

"There is no substitute for Starlink."

--Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product.

TODAY:

"We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink."

--Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
We need much more of this from every D senator and representative.

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.