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Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest and dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

submitted 17 hours ago • 57 comments

We always knew where this was going

submitted 7 hours ago • 294 comments

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

submitted 8 hours ago • 1271 comments

It doesn’t matter to Trump that Pete Hegseth endangered U.S. armed forces by sharing attack plans with his wife, his brother and a journalist. It matters to Trump that Hegseth is willing to order American troops to attack American civilians. That’s why Hegseth is there.

submitted 8 hours ago • 86 comments

Bernie Sanders on the Trump-Musk feud: "The story of what happened last week is you are living increasingly in an oligarchic society. Musk said to Trump, 'Listen, I bought $270m to get you elected. I bought you the presidency.'"

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

Donald Trump deploying the military against protesters is what happens in fascist countries.

submitted 7 hours ago • 69 comments

FYI, in the Presidential Memorandum: “The Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

The Trump administration is refusing to tell agencies that received information about the WilmerHale executive order that the executive order has since been declared "null and void" unless they are the 26 named defendant agencies.

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BREAKING: A Massachusetts high school student arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

OMB Director Russell Vought shared plans with House lawmakers for a post-Elon Musk DOGE, further entrenched in agencies and funded by the agency’s ITOR appropriations. via @mattbracken.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2q... | fedscoop.com/russell-voug...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Trump administration must restore AmeriCorps programs in 24 states, judge rules reut.rs/3ZRStrH

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

New in Jokien with Tolkien today: 'Elrond Beginning to Regret Not Pushing Isildur Into Cracks of Doom When He Had the Chance' www.jrrjokien.com/p/elrond-beg...

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Marlean Ames still works at the Ohio Department of Youth Services and in fact is working today.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

"One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism." Literally putting an intern in charge. Compare/contrast with the prior director

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Although Elon Musk has said that he’s largely exiting his role at DOGE, at least three of his key lieutenants throughout his government takeover have recently become full-time government employees.

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NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

submitted 3 days ago • 626 comments

NEW: Experts across the political spectrum say the House Republican tax bill would add trillions to the debt. In response, President Trump and congressional Republicans aren’t changing the bill — they’re trying to discredit the economists and their work www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

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NEW: A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don't clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement. W/ @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-qu...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Tesla has asked a judge to reject a demand for some of its vehicle crash data held by the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, saying that public disclosure of the information could cause competitive harm.

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Demonstrating that returning people erroneously removed from the United States is perfectly possible.

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In April, the Trump administration vowed to sign trade deals with as many as 90 countries in 90 days — a tenth of the time it usually takes to reach a trade deal, according to a New York Times analysis. About 60 days later, one has been announced.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump administration effort to dismantle Jobs Corps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Breaking

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

JUST IN: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador have right to challenge detention, judge rules reut.rs/3FoSFbd

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

1st Circuit has denied Trump admin's request to lift a lower court injunction that blocks efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and orders employees reinstated: buff.ly/ykx4HjZ Previously: buff.ly/4gGIo2P

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

submitted 3 days ago • 384 comments

They will keep trying to suppress votes to hang on to power. www.democracydocket.com/new...

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

NEW: Though Elon Musk is gone, DOGE is here to stay. Russell Vought, a Christian nationalist and Project 2025 architect, appears to be at the helm of the faux-agency — and the slash-and-burn effort against the federal government may be on the cusp of an even darker turn. by: @jaknutson.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Bonkers

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Complicated decision! Boasberg agrees with the DOJ and finds that the U.S. does NOT have constructive custody over the CECOT detainees, but, finding that their removal was a violation of due process, orders DHS to find a way to “facilitate the ability [of the people in CECOT] to seek habeas relief.”

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Ed Martin is expanding his operation, and it’s as dangerous as it sounds. The US Department of Justice’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin Jr, is now laying the groundwork to pardon even more of Trump’s allies, this time focusing on the Republican fake electors who tried to help overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

The Big Beautiful Betrayal will increase the debt by trillions of dollars. Congressional Republicans want to stick our kids and grandkids with this bill—and raise interest rates for all Americans—to give tax breaks to the wealthy.

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff.

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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg grants class certification for the CECOT detainees storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Judge Boasberg's intro to the J.G.G. class cert. starts with Kafka. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene was roasted for admitting she didn’t even read the full budget bill, saying she would’ve voted no if she knew what was in it. Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell responded: “You have one job. To. Read. The. Fu**ing. Bill.” More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/wednesdays...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

106 years ago today, Congress passed the 19th Amendment to protect women's right to vote. Now Congress is considering the SAVE Act, which threatens to undo that progress by making it harder for eligible Americans, especially married women, to register to vote.

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“Operation At Large includes more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement and up to 21,000 National Guard troops…Drawing those numbers has been a source of tension among officials who feel they have been taken off core national security missions.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Republicans don’t want you to believe the analysis of nonpartisan professionals about their disastrous tax bill. They want you to believe the GOP’s professional liars instead.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is outrageous. A federal worker at our DC town hall talks about how employees are being asked to write letters stating their support for Trump. Our loyalty is to country not any particular president. As the woman said, “what the literal fuck.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 4 days ago • 91 comments

Yes! The answer to “Real Men do [toxic thing]” is not actually “Real Men do [less toxic thing].” It’s “Why the fuck are you so obsessed with this primitive gender essentialism?”

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Republicans are not pushing for higher restrictions for voting in an election because they actually BELIEVE that there is a citizenship issue with voter fraud. They do it because it suppresses the vote and people stay home, which benefits their party. Don't fall for it. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: DOJ is dissolving its four-decade old transnational crime fighting network, OCDETF. Its operations, I've learned, will be absorbed by the new DHS task forces But many q's remain. A group of Democratic senators have sent a letter to AG Bondi seeking answers 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Trump admin - okay, let's go with death! The admin's guidance says that state abortion bans can force hospitals to turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies that jeopardize their health, including reproductive health, & potentially lives.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

The integrity of our legal profession is on the ballot in this year's D.C. bar election. Please cast your vote by TOMORROW www.directvote.net/DCBA

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

House Republicans are considering a new judicial requirement that would allow Trump to skirt court orders for a short time. Legal experts warn it would cause chaos in the courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments