Darth Helmet

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections.

This particular decision was a fait accompli.

"Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline reading, 'Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University.' The subheadline states, 'Government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding.' The article is written by Liz Essley Whyte and Douglas Belkin and dated April 10, 2025, 2:18 pm ET."

This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.

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Best case: stagflation followed by impeachment and economic recovery.
Worse case: depression followed by engineered emergency and fascist takeover.
Stakes as high as they come.

Asset. “Agent” gives him way too much credit. 😑

The White House is encouraging this because it’s distracting from all the other bullshit. Either way, they’ll eventually blame one (or both) of them for the suffering of American people, and Teflon Don will yet again make his magat base think he’s a genius.

Let me step back and explain this a bit. I'm a habeas expert. A habeas petition can only be filed in the federal district where the petitioner is at the moment of filing. So if you live in Philly, get abducted in Philly, then get whisked immediately to Louisiana before you can file your petition ...

Curious about this too, but bootlegging existed in a time of when it was hard to track and trace people’s movements & activities. We live in a world of constant surveillance now, and we do it to our damn selves with our phones and lack of tangible currency.

A THOUSAND PERCENT THIS. It’s infuriating. As a small business owner, I’m shocked at how many people are telling me the tariffs will HELP my business when my cost of goods to produce my product is skyrocketing while simultaneously sales are plummeting. 😖

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

What in the ever loving f*ck took them so long.

The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs Elon Musk and DOGE have taken a blowtorch to federal agencies. But the tariffs are a helpful reminder that it's Donald Trump who's fiddling while it all burns.

There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit. Then there are situations where you accuse a bunch of penguins on an uninhabited island of currency manipulation. Guess which one we’re living in? www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.

Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.

The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.

The penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands announce they are putting 30% tariffs on US goods.

Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel We go to Madison, Wisconsin, to speak with The Nation's John Nichols about Tuesday's pivotal state Supreme Court election, in which liberal Judge Susan Crawford convincingly defeated conservative candidate...

Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel

Executive Orders can only deal with Executive branch issues. They're not fucking laws and every single school, company, or other entity needs to start telling them to fuck all the way off.

On a plane I re-watched, for the first time in decades, a film about an undocumented immigrant couple working hard to achieve the American dream: a house, a family, friends, a small business - only to be stalked by immigration decades later.

It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.

Senator, I was never a huge fan of yours mostly because I don’t live in your state and during your bids for president, I was simply inspired elsewhere. Now? HUGE freaking fan! I am so grateful for your voice and sensible leadership, and I regret that I didn’t realize it earlier. THANK YOU!!!

Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good.

Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.

Using Signal set to auto delete is a violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.

Posting classified info about the strike endangered American lives.

An unauthorized person on the chat makes it a violation of the Espionage Act.

Gabbard and Ratcliffe committed perjury.

Best thing I’ve read all week

👏👏👏 THIS is how to disrupt for the benefit of all.

Been seeing this ad nonstop on network television for weeks (I live in a border state). Makes me angry every single time.

A year ago, this headline would have been from The Onion.

Watergate wasn’t the fault of the
Hotel either… I think it’s ok. People need a catchy hook to keep talking. Something Trump has been great at, and the opposition needs to get better at.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Free speech expert: The myth of the censorship industrial complex is so ludicrous that even the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismissed it out of hand last year.