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"A St. Paul resident says ICE agents knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week" Fed.l spokespeople did not respond to a request for information, according to article. www.twincities.com/2026/01/12/s...

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Res, and I cannot stress this enough, ipsa loquitur. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

But it's not profiling.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

As a clever form of peaceful protest, a DC man walked along near National Guard troops deployed in the city playing the Imperial March from Star Wars from a portable speaker. To disprove this scurrilous slander... they arrested him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

🚨 ICE has wrongfully detained over 170 U.S. citizens since Trump's return to the White House, according to a new investigation by ProPublica. 🧵⬇️

When Kavanaugh writes his solo opinion saying the VRA was great then but unnecessary now, just remember on the day the case was argued: - ICE detained citizens based on skin color - Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave” - American Nazi flag in congressional office

The idea that the Court may use the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution to bar a remedy that helps minority voters is both ahistorical and repugnant.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

‘Everyone’s at risk’: Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem on.ft.com/3VudypQ

Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness: “Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”

While Trump and RFK Jr. have been illegally cutting funding that Congress approved, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services can barely agree that RFK Jr. can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face. This is bad.

The federal legal system will not fare well at all if, when Trump's DOJ misbehaves in district court, the most likely person to be sanctioned or censured is... the district court judge.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

It’s striking how the workings of a competitive authoritarian system have already been internalized by the mainstream political press. It is now officially “politics as usual”.

Bending the knee one after the next

Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.

Senate Confirms Judge Who Says Government Can Ignore Court Orders I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... - this is basically Ender’s Game in real life

Maybe Democratic leadership should stop cowering on this issue and take a stand

Old enough to remember when US revoked visas for people attacking democracy rather than defending it.

We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through. Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.

The "financial decision" being "it is expensive to mock a President who will fuck with our businesses"

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

As Roberts privately praised Trump's "civility," a massive spike in threats hit the federal judiciary. The threats were fueled by Trump's rhetoric calling them "USA HATING JUDGES", "MONSTERS", and "sick." Roberts got a handshake at the SOTU; the judges depending on his leadership got death threats.

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

when a judge legit tries to protect you from the lawless president by keeping you in jail

Weird version of a Christianity where you worry more about what logo is on aid to the very poor then the fact there is a whole lot less of the aid

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

The American taxpayer is paying to send people to this place

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

This is generalizable: Anyone with the personal traits required to rise in this administration is, for that very reason, presumptively morally defective.

I will never rest until people understand that the Supreme Court secured the job of the head of an independent agency not because the law compelled them to do it, but because of an unstated fear of wrecking the economy—and maybe even their own stock portfolios. Literally made up a rule to do that.