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Folks: I am not on TikTok. Any account there is not me. And I will NEVER ask for money!

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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⚡️ Warehouses hit in Lviv during Russia’s strike were storing clothing for Polish fashion giant LPP — brands like Reserved, Cropp, and Sinsay — along with tobacco products.

Flames tore through the site, sending thick smoke visible for miles.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

You’ll never guess where I’m speaking tonight 😂

DEFUND ICE!!
START WRITING TO TAKE BACK THE PURSE ...
THAT'S WHAT CONGRESS IS THERE FOR!!!

How very narcissist of him to say that.

Opinion | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption

Opinion | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption (06/07/2025)
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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread (10/02/2025)
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Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive

Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive (10/03/2025)
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Opinion | Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over D.E.I.

Opinion | Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over D.E.I. (10/02/2025)
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Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. (09/29/2025)
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Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America (Published 2021)

Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America (Published 2021) (07/10/2021)
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I love the smell of abject cowardice in the morning

I started reading this book just this week and I'm frustrated that I hadn't found it sooner. Such a wealth of insight into what's happening now.

Distorted Reality Fields If you wonder why the hell no one understands what's going on, the answer is that it's not an accident, and it's been in the works for some time.

Distorted Reality Fields
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If you wonder why the hell no one understands what is going on, the answer is that it's not an accident, and it's been in the works for some time.

YouTube video by WION French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
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This Shutdown Won’t Be Like the Others The political theater might look similar. The dynamics underneath are different.

The interesting thing about this piece is that just two days from publication it's predictions are mostly or all belied by what has already happened. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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There is no war in Portland.

Medicaid pays only providers.

Undocumented people are NOT on Medicaid.

Republicans are responsible for the government shutdown.

Republicans ARE enjoying harming others.

ICE = Gestapo.

FACTS.

My mom was on Medicaid with her Alzheimers. Medicaid pays medical bills directly. It does not send checks to people, you fucking stooge. And you MUST be legal to obtain it.

They'd probably get their message across better if they just posted a sign at all border checkpoints to the effect of:

"If you value your life, and your freedom, you will not enter the United States. Trump's America is truly the stuff of horrible nightmares. Big money is welcome but YOU aren't."

This Roberts Majority will be remembered as the worst in modern history.

They’re taking away rights, reshaping the Constitution & effectively legislating from the Bench—an unthinkable atrocity according to them when considering the Warren Court.

The Trump admin will likely try to strip Salvadoran TPS next year when the 18 month period is up — unless Bukele convinces them not to.

Should that happen, it'll hit the DC metro area badly. In 2018, it was estimated almost a third of the local construction industry has TPS.

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.

Shameless!

NIJC Sounds the Alarm over Drastic Expansion of ICE Detention in the Midwest - National Immigrant Justice Center In response to confirmed reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started detaining people at Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, the National Immi...

ICE is rapidly expanding detention in the Midwest and new reports confirm it's aiming to hold 100 ppl in Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility by the end of this week. We refuse to let ICE expand private prisons in our backyard. Read more: immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119 How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that various limits on our remedial power independently require us to reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. •It is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied "administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159 F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue" because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to "consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary, without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S. Code. The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further consideration consistent with this decision.

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Update: Mike Johnson has now extended the House recess through Oct. 13.

If he sticks to his refusal to seat Democrat Adelita Grijalva, that means she'll go at least three weeks between winning her special election and getting sworn in.

Other special election winners this year waited just one day.

Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump.

Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.