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Legit insane.

What a juxtaposition. Via Alex Ward.

Obvious point: Most of the undocumented immigrants who are being rounded up are better Americans, in the ways that matter, than Donald J. Trump.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”

“Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state rep Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer…The suspect is a white man with brown hair wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.”

Having been deployed to Los Angeles by President Donald Trump in order to quell protests against ICE, U.S. Marines detained their first civilian on Friday: an Army veteran on his way to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

@reed.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov

The strategy is to do your Constitutionally-approved job and make them stop you. Make them show the world that they violate the Constitution. Make them show where they draw the lines and how they want to exercise power.

My goodness- California's Senator Alex Padilla just went to ask Kristi Noem questions in person at her photo op / press conference in LA and she had her security forcibly throw him out of the room. Video here:

I told you we’d be back

Breaking news: Donald Trump’s landmark tax bill would make the most prosperous Americans $12,000 richer each year, while wiping $1,600 off the disposable income of the nation’s poorest, Congress’s fiscal watchdog has said https://on.ft.com/446Tfmi

So, 'our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business' have been knowingly employing undocumented immigrants for a 'long time.' That's a crime. When will we start to see arrests of these employers? Never, of course.

Worth repeating what others have noted: if non-citizens need proof of legal status, so do citizens. Because there’s no way for ICE to tell the difference just by looking at you.

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What a disgusting, ignorant, arrogant statement by the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Nobody trusts anything he says or does. That’s very dangerous for the US…we depend so much on our Allies. I served in Afghanistan in RC South 2009-2010 where thousands of Allies fought and many died.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

This is incredible

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

More scenes from the “big insurrection” in Los Angeles

I worry that it’s too much to expect careers military officers to speak up about this, but Jess is right: this is a shocking breach of American traditions. George Washington is rolling in his grave.

Zelenskyy cleverly and very successfully attacked Russian military airbases with drones; Putin bombs a Ukrainian maternity hospital; Trump can’t figure out who the bad guy is. Trump/Russia is real.

BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

I prefer salty Newsom to podcast Newsom

A true genius. RIP.

And there is the shooter. Turns, aims at the journalist and fires. Intentional, lawless, brutality.

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

Today is a fantastic day to be on Bluesky

This is not a denial

TSLA down almost 15% today.

Elon throws down the gauntlet to Republicans as they consider who to back in the aftermath of the Trump-Musk divorce