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JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 hour ago • 102 comments

This is so procedurally weird. The Executive Branch suing a court isn't unprecedented; in fact, one of the most impactful natsec cases was officially called U.S. v. U.S. District Court. (You may know it as the "Keith" case because it involved Judge Damon Keith.)

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: 2nd federal judge, Donato/SF/Obama, blocks Trump effort to end collective bargaining by federal employee unions at several major agencies. Friedman/DC/Clinton also blocked but DC Cir stayed. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

submitted 3 hours ago • 40 comments

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists say they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

submitted 3 hours ago • 77 comments

Mamdani leads Cuomo by roughly 70,000 'first-round' votes. There are likely fewer than 250,000 ballots left to count.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

If Mamdani were to pull this out, what’s the over-under line for how much outside SuperPac money comes in to the general to try to stop him? $100 mil? $200?

submitted 3 hours ago • 270 comments

Mamdani has actually increased his lead a bit in the latest update, to 8.3%. That's roughly 826K ballots... roughly 75% of the expected vote. Mamdani leads Cuomo 43.9% to 35.7%.

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

not the first person to make this observation but its incredible how drudge is the only news outlet in the country, including ostensibly liberal ones, that actually, for real, thinks trump is a bad president and wants him to fail

submitted 6 hours ago • 38 comments

lmao, this is escalating

submitted 3 hours ago • 75 comments

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

submitted 4 hours ago • 53 comments

I’m sorry, but this is a literally laughable argument from the Department of Justice. They cannot seriously be arguing that they couldn’t get DHS not to deport him during the course of the criminal proceedings.

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

What the actual FUCK, blueskis. It looks like NARA I is open and functioning normally. What is the point of closing NARA II to everyone but "visitors with a legitimate business need" - whatever that means? The fascism is the point, apparently.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 10 hours ago • 58 comments

Pause for a moment to process this; ICE is arresting literally 1,100% more immigrants with no criminal records than in his first term.

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 8 hours ago • 61 comments

Florida is taking steps to build its own immigration detention center in the Everglades calling it “Alligator Alcatraz." People will be held in a facility "surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight," our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social says in @npr.org ⤵️

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

Took me a second to work backwards what's happening here, but holy fuck is this stupid. To get the merger approved, US Steel amended its incorporation documents to give Donald Trump effective personal control over the company so long as he's President. When he's not, that power transfers...

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

They were innocent. But police lied, raided them, and killed them in their own home. The drug war made that possible. Tonight in DC, I’m debating why it needs to end. Howard Theatre at 7pm. Join us.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return a Salvadoran man who was deported from the US in early May as a result of what the government has admitted was a "a confluence of administrative errors" buff.ly/0TbuPwl

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

This assessment is about to be heavily politicized, as we see in the story below.

submitted 10 hours ago • 36 comments

VEO 3 is why I said you should now view any video with no cuts under 8 seconds to be inherently suspicious unless proven otherwise.

submitted 10 hours ago • 23 comments

Florence, Arizona never lost its prison vibe. To this day it’s a major hub for the carceral industry, with state and federal criminal detention centers and an ICE detention center. Here’s the Google Maps, which features some questionable reviews.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

So, this happened. The article, published in 1950, describes a concentration camp bill that was enacted, funded, and ready to go into effect and would have been used to detain suspected communists without trial. It never did, and Nixon bowed under movement pressure to sign its repeal in 1971.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

I haven't had time to say much about this case, dealing with "third country" deportations. But it's a terrible decision for all the reasons J. Sotomayor outlines in her dissent. She is probably the best justice on immigration issues, though wrong about much else: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

That this man is up for a judicial nomination is the perfect encapsulation of how these people fundamentally don't believe in law as a set of reciprocal social obligations. They only believe in unilateral power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

If the Court grants the DOJ's request, I don't think it's exaggerating too much to say that the Supreme Court would be affirmatively holding that the Trump administration has the right to violate court orders they feel are incorrect.

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

"Masked men with guns in unmarked cars. No identification. No warrant …Now, they will not only be kidnapped from our streets, but could be deported to a dangerous third country with impunity and without due process. This is Trump and Stephen Miller’s increasingly vigilante America.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Kash Patel's FBI did a "raid" of a person's home just like the one that Kash said was unlawful when it targeted Trump. And for the same crime!! I can't wait for the target's selective prosecution claim. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/depar...

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

newrepublic.com/post/197149/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

Reading this bombshell story, it's important to keep in mind who Reuveni is. He ain't no Resistance deepstater. He's the career DOJ guy with a measure of professional reputation who signed his name on numerous filings that I'd call deeply concerning and maybe worse, until he finally said no mas.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Same here. It's one of my Top 10 movies of all time, and it remains depressingly relevant today.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Probably not good to send DOJ lawyers the message that engaging in substandard lawyering that helps the President will get them a pass from SCOTUS and a potential nomination from Trump.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Kind of fun to see my posts on the Bad Site being reposted here. I don't mind, of course. But if I was linking to an article or a post with an article, I'd appreciate if people could share that as well so the context is also there. Here it is! nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

This literally did not happen. No children were “lost.” The entire thing stems from a willful misreading of a DHS OIG report.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

This is extremely dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

100 days ago this week, the Trump admin began disappearing immigrants to El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT. Over 280 people remain detained today. We've compiled everything we know so far about the disappearances, including personal stories from those impacted. Learn more: nilc.org/cecot-disapp...

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

submitted 15 hours ago • 59 comments

FWIW I’ve heard of tons of incidents where people are afraid to report DV, afraid to access medical care, or otherwise petrified to engage with the state in any way. It’s entirely understandable, and it will kill people, and that’s probably the point.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

California National Guard troops under federal control were sent to operate in "the greater Los Angeles area." What the actual definition of that area is for Task Force 51 is isn't clear. But apparently it includes the Salton Sea. New from me @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/nationa...

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

Houston police called ICE on a woman who called 911 to report domestic abuse by her ex-husband. The only reason she didn't get deported is because ICE said there was no one to take custody of her kids, according to the police report. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 12 hours ago • 49 comments

Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.

submitted 14 hours ago • 201 comments