A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) via Twitter: https://x.com/Vu_Reports/status/1966164297563672695 Tillis has some sharp words for conservative pundits that called for “war” following Charlie Kirk’s death: “What I was really disgusted by yesterday is a couple of talking heads that sees this as an opportunity to say we're at war so that they could get some of our conservative followers lathered up over this. It seems like a cheap, disgusting, awful way to pretend like you're a leader of a conservative movement. And there were two in particular that I found particularly disgusting.” 11:37 AM · Sep 11, 2025

A strong statement from Sen. Thom Tillis.

* JAPAN READIES $700M PACKAGE TO LURE TALENT AMID US BRAIN DRAIN

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ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend:

www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Be safe out there.

What happened to Senator Padilla is not homeland security. This is homeland fascism. This is homeland authoritarianism.

As a kid and longer than I care to admit, I thought “Alzheimer’s disease” was “old timers disease.”

Scarlet tanager and veery this am, FTW!

How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia Trump has now admitted twice that he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, but says his lawyers are telling him not to. This was a very dumb move—and also a very revealing one.

Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.

New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...

Congrats again to John Thune, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, & the deeply (un)serious "defense hawk" Tom Cotton (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

Paul Ingrassia & GP @PaulIngrassia Subscribe Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense, causing irreparable damage to our judicial system. This is why a putatively "conservative" Supreme Court so often fails to uphold the most basic principles of constitutional governance. Nations require borders in order to preserve national sovereignty, define citizenship, and allocate rights. That 7 members, including 3 appointed by President Trump in his last administration no less, would choose to willfully ignore that most basic precept of national sovereignty, demonstrates that the Supreme Court would rather actively participate in America's ruination, rather than work alongside the duly elected president to help reestablish the RULE OF LAW. This is why the ongoing efforts to hold elite universities, law firms, and law schools accountable by the Trump administration is so vitally important.

The calluel mour fuulelat oyotell beg ho wil the poison taught by these institutions, which has infected even so-called conservative lawyers and judges with the same anti-Constitutional, anti-American, immoral ideologies over decades and decades. Law must be moderated by the virtues, including individual responsibility and wisdom. Its practitioners must have mastery over these virtues in order to properly execute the laws for a free and self governing people. That imperative was long ago abandoned by our educat onal institutions. The judges in law courts today, including the majority in the nation's Highest Court, telegraph with these decisions that they have no understanding of law and its proper function and role. President Trump is the first leader who has actually meaningfully attempted to reverse this destructive trajectory, and done so with the gravitas of executive power that will be sure to have a lasting impact for years to come. * johnny maga @ @ _johnnymaga • 1h As usual, Alito and Thomas are the only two Justices you can count on to uphold the integrity of our vaniahlia

Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.

Why are we buying into this characterization of judges as being “liberals”? Why are we buying into the idea that they he judiciary is partisan?

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Where do u sign up for the War Alerts?

Thom Tillis casting the deciding vote to confirm Hegseth, and his shameful silence yesterday, should be a major issue in the 2026 NC Senate race.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

It's very reasonable for normal, upstanding Americans to make clear that they won't stand for unAmerican trash like JD Vance. Everyone has their limits.

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

“Run government like a startup,” says a guy who cannot competently run either a government or a startup.

Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse.

Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...

Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE Democrats estimate that nearly 6,000 veterans may have already been fired from their federal jobs as part of the DOGE initiative run by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled.

In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...

This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

Are laws just vibes now? The defunding of university health research is one more example of a pattern of illegality

Above quote was from something I wrote this week, anticipating precisely this op-ed.
Law school culture offers disproportionate rewards for coming up with legal justifications for whatever the very wealthy and powerful want to do.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-laws-j...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them

1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

TX v Becerra = @sharonsaysso See Instagram 'TX v Becerra' highlights from SHARON McMAHON (@sharonsaysso)

An excellent primer on what Texas vs. Beccera will really do and how the states involved aren’t being clear about what they are really asking for. @realsharonmcmahon.bsky.social www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...

the thing about the civil rights movement is that they weren't a mass movement, not really. the freedom rides and the freedom summer were a few thousand people. but they understood that despite lacking all formal power, they could create confrontations that advanced their narrative.

it worked.

Read. 👇👇👇
Blistering.