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Opinion | The Iranians will greet us as liberators

Juneteenth celebrates the freeing of slaves. But what about the economic interests of slave owners?

ā€œJunior lawyers at the firm help set the exit in motion. … A group of litigation associates made it clear to partners they were looking to leave …. The partners began making plans to bring their clients with them and looked for a firm they were sure wouldn’t sign a similar deal.ā€

My jawn

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Donald Trumpā€˜s deranged Memorial Day screed against federal judges raises two serious questions: When exactly was former president Biden diagnosed with cancer? And why has he not held a solo press conference to address it?

Something sticky this way comes

Opinion | Trump is investigating me. I'm still glad I made him president in 2016. by Jim Comey

This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.

In one of Texas' larger districts, the school board in 2023 restricted the rights of trans students on a 4-3 vote, prompting a federal investigation. The board's president, a driving force behind the policy, lost reelection yesterday. boltsmag.org/whats-o...

Is Trump required to follow the constitution? This Federalist Society constitutional lawyer says he doesn’t know

ā€œI don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.ā€ Trump retreats from oath he swore to ā€œpreserve, protect and defendā€ the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Conservative superlawyer Paul Clement joins yet another case challenging the Trump administration. This time he's representing Judge Hannah Dugan, who was was arrested after the FBI said she tried to shield an illegal immigrant from arrest. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

The typesetting hurts my brain

SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego GarcĆ­a’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

ā€œDisappearances are disturbingly common under authoritarian regimes where dissent is quashed and the rule of law is more fiction than fact.ā€ Belarus — or the United States of America? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

SURREAL Judge Hannah Dugan in handcuffs, being arrested by the FBI.

My 2-year-old was in an ICE detention facility when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why am I being deported to Honduras?" And when I told her "Because due process is too woke," she started crying.

The Ukrainians must surrender to Putin, because that is what we do every day. by J. D. Vance

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

You guys, it seems that the administration’s assertions might be in bad faith #rubio #nazis www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

By distracting us with fake terrorism, this administration is inviting the real thing. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Happy 250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord from the Supreme Court of the United States

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An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: ā€œJust before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.ā€

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In this K2-18b clump of marine algae, they're still standing by Donald Trump.

Opinion | 250 Years of Democracy is Enough

Privately, sources close to Jared and Ivanka say they oppose kidnapping Americans and sending them to die in El Salvador torture prisons.

Trump said he wants to send Americans to foreign gulags. But what did he mean?

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Steven Miller’s new theory, that a "saboteur," "Democrat" DOJ atty invented the idea that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly removed to CECOT—is false. The error was admitted, on 3/31, by Robert Cerna, an ICE acting field office director: 1/3 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#americangulag open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Trump team aims to denaturalize American citizens — potentially sending some to El Salvador www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...