Michele Dostert

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

Derrick Evans (asshole extraordinaire)

Nothing says Republican and Christian values like decorating a Christmas tree with effigies of people you want to murder and then posting it on social media.

BREAKING: DOJ has failed to indict Letitia James for a THIRD time! It's like Christmas around here!

Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it

I know Trump voters who will resolutely refuse to watch the news because they know if they do they’ll have to admit what they saw

I take your point but that's probably more precisely parsed as: they don't follow civics/policy, but oh boy howdy are they animated by "politics."

Mine has pulled this number on me:

Democrat in power: Did you know about [insert totally misunderstood non-scandal Fox won't shut up about]

Trump in power: Oh I don't follow politics

The amount of "mainstream" reportage on Trump's unfitness for the presidency was enormous in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Enormous. Unavoidable for any American who read or watched mainstream media.

Federalism. I keep saying it.

This is why @radiofreetom.bsky.social keeps telling y'all the fight isn't over yet. It's not.

This is a nakedly thuggish and corrupt administration. People who support it should be treated as corrupt thugs.

Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.

The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ

I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Judge Paula Xinis on the government’s conduct in the Abrego Garcia litigation:

“Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”

Christopher Walkin? Oh Thank God. [reads again] coitus

Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.

I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:

- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Warned that this was going to happen. And if Trump’s DOJ doesn’t fight it, I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to stop it.

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With no penological justification for withholding the book after the Publication Review Committee’s decision, existing precedent clearly establishes that not delivering the book was unlawful. This is true even though none of our precedent delineates a brightline rule for how much delay is too much. See Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730, 741 (2002) (“[A] general constitutional rule already identified in the decisional law may apply with obvious clarity to the specific conduct in question, even though the very action in question has not previously been held unlawful.” (citation modified) (quoting United States v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259, 270–71 (1997)); Schwenk v. Hartford, 204 F.3d 1187, 1197 (9th Cir. 2000) (“[Q]ualified immunity is inappropriate where the preexisting law was sufficient to provide the defendant with ‘fair warning’ that his conduct was unlawful.” (quoting Lanier, 520 U.S. at 270–71)). The principle that inmates retain the right to obtain information to the extent this right does not contravene legitimate penological interests is clearly established. See Thornburgh, 490 U.S. at 413. After it becomes clear that no penological justification for withholding information sent to prisoners exists, it would be

9th Cir. partially revives suit alleging that it violated the First Amendment for Washington prison official to delay delivery of "The Habeas Citebook" to inmates.

No QI for mailroom supervisor on delayed delivery claim, but more general mail policies stand.

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WALKINSHAW: Are you familiar with the Proud Boys?

GLASHEEN: I'm familiar with the name

WALKINSHAW: Does the FBI still designate them as an extremist organization? They did during Trump's first term

GLASHEEN: We are in the process right now of changing our, uh, categories for domestic terrorism

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.

I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person?

KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in---


THOMPSON: No. I want to know who approved----


NOEM: *keeps talking over Thompson*


T: I don't want to file perjury charges against you

I take more than my share of shots at Quinn Emanuel but they have done great and difficult work, at substantial risk to the firm, for Abrego Garcia. Sincere thanks and respect.

Kristi Noem Caught Lying About Why She Left Committee Hearing Early Congressman Moskowitz has confirmed that the FEMA meeting Noem left today's hearing for was cancelled.

BREAKING: Congressman Moskowitz has confirmed that the FEMA meeting Kristi Noem claimed she left today’s hearing to attend was cancelled.

The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.

Treat their people accordingly.