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Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a prominent law firm that cut a deal with President Trump to head off a potentially crippling executive order, announced on Friday that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Mr. Trump’s orders in court.

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in the rules-based international order, sensibility is represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police, who get to commit crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the victims

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“If you can read those words and sleep well tonight, I envy you. As I tell my few remaining Republican friends, ‘It's crazy to say that America looks like 1936 Germany when it's so clearly 1938 Germany’” Read the latest from @stuartpstevens.bsky.social: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/has-maga-d...

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hearing just ended without a ruling. My topline — The top prosecutor offered a “Heads I win, tails you lose” proposition: ICE will hold and try to deport him, even if Abrego wins his detention fight. My latest, @AllRiseNews.com. www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-ice...

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WE ARE CLEAN ON OPTICS

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My primary opponent is openly supporting a war crime that brings the world closer to a nuclear meltdown.

submitted 10 hours ago • 52 comments

We had a diplomatic solution that mango Mussolini dismantled. Fuck off.

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Inaction is an action. If you don’t stop it from being “politicized” it’s going to be politicized.

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As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.

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Accountability is for the Out group, not the In group.

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Now watch this video knowing all this: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

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It is also unacceptable to threaten to take over a major city with military force and effectively end democratic governance there. That’s why the Senator was there. Let’s not lose sight of that.

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Idk guys, maybe he’s not a good person and should not be in a position of public trust. Seems like there might be a pattern.

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Bibi Netanyahu, in 2002, urging the US to invade Iraq: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." The US listened then, and we saw what happened. 23 years later, here we are.

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Video Proves DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Top Deputy Lied About Senator Being Forcibly Removed By Federal Agents www.mediaite.com/politics/vid...

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Uh theres a new nut milk brand called JOI and I’m not sure who needs to be fired

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this company man

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Billy Long's sole qualification to run the IRS is that, in 2023–24, he ran a large-scale tax fraud operation. I am not making this up.

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there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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.

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Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

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mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

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Be aware: Speaker Johnson just spoke to press and said that Padilla's behavior rises to the level of a censure. Are you freaking joking me.

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This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

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Me as a therapist today: "yes you seem to be suffering from a condition we like to call 'paying attention' and I think you should make some improvised explosives about it"

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Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

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Members of the In group will never admit they are wrong or guilty, as that will be seen as betrayal by their fellow travellers and result in exile and attack. This is authoritarian capture in practice right in front of your eyes.

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“accustomed to remaining free”

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🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

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OOPS: Attorney for Proud Boys in their lawsuit against DOJ may not be allowed to practice law because of a prior felony conviction he appears not to have disclosed, according to the magistrate judge handling the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

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booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

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So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.

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Notably: Not because of crime. Not because of "riots". Not even because of "illegal" immigrants. Because of "socialists" and the democratically elected leaders. They're just saying they're sending in the military because of political opposition. Can't wait for mainstream media to ignore this.

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It is not the job of the federal government to "liberate" a city and state from their elected leaders. Where are all the states'-rights conservatives? And there is no need to liberate anything. The city & state aren't under siege. This is dangerous & authoritarian red-baiting & disgraceful.

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Whiskey Pete refuses to answer @congresstran.bsky.social's question about a plan to actually feed the Marines.

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This is outrageous, and we need answers. If this is how the Trump administration treated a United States senator while the cameras are on, ask yourself: what will they do to ordinary people?

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Weird how "states' rights" disappear entirely under fascist authoritarian Republican rule. Almost as if "states' rights" is code for "leave our fascist authoritarian Republican rule over various states alone".

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We're here to liberate the city from its elected leaders.

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I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

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Note the point @padilla.senate.gov was making when he was assaulted by Noem's team: That she keeps cycling thru six cases as her justification for the gulag.

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That is the language of a coup. Not a democracy.

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Thinking about this again seeing federal security guards roughing up a United States Senator inside a federal building.

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This is the Administration that sought charges against a sitting Member of Congress for conduct that seems a whole lot less than what it is doing to a sitting Senator for no apparent reason. This on its face looks like an illegal seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

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So, per the DHS Secretary, the Trump Regime has deployed troops to Los Angeles to overthrow the duly elected government of Los Angeles and of the State of California. bsky.app/profile/just...

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