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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

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submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

www.telluridenews.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

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Good luck to the intel agencies with dismantling every panel in the 747 that Qatar is giving Trump to check for bugs and trackers

submitted 32 days ago • 102 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 32 days ago • 1077 comments

How is the Qatar 747 gift not an Air Force One equivalent of "Signal-gate"?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

“The Trump Administration is Looking at Ways to Burn the Constitution and Piss on the Ashes” should be the headline

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 34 days ago • 1423 comments

MURPHY: You've read the SCOTUS decision. Does it not require you to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia? NOEM: The Trump admin is complying with all court orders M: You're a defendant in the case!... the discussion ends when SCOTUS rules 9-0... that is incredibly chilling for balance of powers

submitted 35 days ago • 239 comments

NEW: Trump orders the Justice Department “to take all necessary action to help secure the release of” a former GOP election clerk in Colorado and election denier who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a voting system data breach. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 162 comments

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

submitted 39 days ago • 3073 comments

Trump has fully turned on Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."

submitted 59 days ago • 1216 comments

From the 2024 presidential immunity oral arguments: "But the liberal justices voiced concern that by offering presidents a shield from prosecution, the court could turn the Oval Office into a “seat of criminality,” as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described it."

submitted 62 days ago • 343 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 64 days ago • 1462 comments