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In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent. That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

This unapologetic brutality, this senseless waste of life, this asinine global trade war, this stupid squandering of prosperity, this sociopathic predation against citizens and immigrants—they are collaborators on all of it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 8 days ago • 1054 comments

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

submitted 9 days ago • 190 comments

I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and every other person who was shipped to that concentration camp. And Gorka can go fuck himself. They sure are very nervous about being found out.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.

submitted 10 days ago • 1792 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 11 days ago • 814 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 12 days ago • 341 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 12 days ago • 1331 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 12 days ago • 226 comments

The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

submitted 12 days ago • 807 comments

Dear Decent Human Beings in the Military and Law Enforcement, If you are ordered to violate the Constitution by this president, please disobey. The millions who served, suffered, and died before you deserve your courage now.

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

Using the excuse of a single national security emergency, real or fake, the fascist dictator takes complete control… totalitarianism. Any courageous opposition is silenced or imprisoned. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

"What would a rapist think? What would a rapist say? What would a rapist do?" The only model for this presidency.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Zelensky: We have their documents, even credit cards. They are citizens of China. I believe the United States of America needs to pay more attention to what is happening today. #standwithukraine

submitted 18 days ago • 104 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 18 days ago • 396 comments

BREAKING: 60 Minutes just exposed the lie. Over 75% of those deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison are innocent. No crimes. No charges. No justice. This is manufactured fear and state-sanctioned abuse. www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-c...

submitted 20 days ago • 379 comments

The obvious move, very much in their interest, and in the interest of democracy itself.

submitted 20 days ago • 61 comments

The theory that all this is Trump getting revenge on America and the world for perceived past slights is a far more reasonable take than some think

submitted 22 days ago • 188 comments

Their goal is to destroy this country. Donald Trump is fucking things up far worse than anyone else ever has. It's not due to some unforeseen "event." It's because Donald Trump is choosing this. POTUS. Is. Choosing. This.

submitted 23 days ago • 130 comments

I mean really the first order of business for the democrats is to go on every interview possible and repeat until it sinks in that republicans in congress could stop this whenever they want

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Japan and South Korea, two top US allies, are joining forces with China to jointly retaliate against Trump’s tariffs. This is a major international realignment against the United States.

submitted 26 days ago • 403 comments

Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…

submitted 29 days ago • 1433 comments

Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037

submitted 30 days ago • 543 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 30 days ago • 3043 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 31 days ago • 1921 comments

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

submitted 31 days ago • 556 comments

In Germany’s defense they only elected Hitler once.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 33 days ago • 852 comments

“Hey babe, what u up 2? Got a strike package from the USS Truman hitting Houthi camps northwest of Sana’a at 2AM. Wanna come by after?” - Pete Hegseth

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 33 days ago • 3680 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 33 days ago • 922 comments

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

submitted 34 days ago • 389 comments

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 36 days ago • 426 comments