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Lawyer, former federal and state prosecutor, independent legal analyst and contributor France24, adjunct HEC Paris. Father, loud spectator of college tennis matches. Same handle on the former Twitter.
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Truth: Steven Miller was embarrassed because despite Trump demagoguery they were actually deporting less people on a daily basis than Biden was. This was debunking their myth that their lawlessness had fixed a broken immigration system. So they escalated the lawlessness, and are breaking democracy.

Most of the legacy media coverage and invited pundits, while lamenting the improper (actually illegal) politicization, assumed the soldiers would for some reason innately boo Trump's bogeymen. But in reality it is Trump and his Secret Service who improperly screen the attendees for partisan fervor.

So now, not only can foreign students not come here to study and do research, Americans can’t travel abroad to study and do research? Welcome to the American North Korea

Protestors stop looters and save businesses in Los Angeles. US Media won’t show you this. “We don’t do that shit” #3E #stopICE

Probably going to be up to new LA District Attorney (and former Republican) Nathan Hochman to determine if any provocateurs are attempting to turn peaceful protests into Reichstag fires. Have not seen any reporting on this.

Trump and Republicans are improperly using the expedited process of passing a budget, which avoids filibuster rules by requiring only 50 votes to pass, to conceal their efforts to curtail the contempt power of federal judges. Courts would lose ability to enforce orders against the government.

Libertarian tech bros discovering big corporations are less efficient than government www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Not reported yet in legacy media - the Newsome complaint explicitly alleges that violations of the Posse Comitatus Act are coming.

Trump has convinced many Republican voters that the insurrection they saw unfold live on January 6 was an outpouring of love, while the small-scale peaceful protests they see in Los Angeles are an insurrection.

Judge Breyer declined to issue such an order today, but has scheduled a hearing to consider it for Thursday.

Marc Elias on air called Trump's assertion in his public speech that small-scale peaceful protests in LA constituted an insurrection, that legacy media carried live, "insane". But the hosts wouldn't do that in real time.

The same people who shoveled money to a settle bogus case with Trump, have now fired Terry Moran for telling the truth. No one should wonder why viewers are abandoning legacy media in droves. www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...

Meiselas: Terry Moran, if you’re listening, we’ve just learned that your agreement has apparently been terminated by ABC. We want you to know—you will always have a place here at The MeidasTouch Network.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking an immediate temporary restraining order rescinding Trump's hasty and likely illegal diversion of the California National Guard - and he might get it. Trump did not work through Newsome as the law requires.

The fake emergency cost so far is 134 million dollars and rising, but they are saving on lodging by having troops sleep the night on concrete floors before converging on civilian neighborhoods crawling with heavily-armed and poorly trained ICE Agents going door to door seizing random people.

Ostensibly saved pennies by firing government workers performing valuable services, putting USAID to the woodchipper, and similar illegalities, but blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on dangerous showboating with the National Guard, a military parade, and the like. Trumpenomics.

This is a historic landslide. The electorate was not fooled.

January 6 was an actual insurrection for which those truly responsible were never prosecuted and as a result returned to power. They are now in the process of declaring their political opposition as insurrectionists in order to summarily execute their own judgements.

Why has this union president been targeted by the Trump Administration for seemingly constitutionally-protected activity engaged in daily by Americans across the country? His union is one of the few institutions protecting the rights of members and of Americans in court. Doing what Congress is not.

Accelerationism, maybe it is time, if the only alternative is the execrable descent into Trumpism.

How do the US laws governing the use of federal military force within the US work? A 3 minute primer with @france24.com Jean-Emile Jammin:

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

Pete Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines into Los Angeles. Make no mistake: this is a declaration of war against the United States.

If Putin does have a step by step plan to ruin the US that he is directing Trump and Republicans to follow, this is one of the key points.

Two Trump-appointed Circuit Judges vying for his favor have ruled that Trump can discriminate against news outlets for content that displeases him, when it comes to denying those news outlets access to the Oval Office, Air Force 1, and other limited access spaces. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Huge wins for DOGE in the Supreme Court aside obtains a delay at least in cases where it had been dealt significant defeats at the trial court level. Will take perseverance to pursue these cases, and still jo one knows what is going on with all DOGE Dat harvesting from captive citizen accounts.

So it turns out with a little gumption and a little of that rarified support from the Supreme Court, this Administration can be made to reverse itself. The new indictment is a red herring. Abrego Garcia will receive a full criminal trial on those charges. www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

A lot of partners thrown under the bus, who also found out their opinion carries no weight in the firm.

I called for the full release of the Epstein Files a month ago because of my suspicion that AG Pam Bondi was concealing the files to protect Donald Trump. Now my suspicion has been confirmed. Release the #EpsteinFiles now!

The US has withdrawn support for, and participation in, US and international programs that could have facilitated dealing with the problems the US is now causing by recklessly endangering its own agents as well as detainees for an inhumane publicity stunt.

You know who did push the Electric Vehicle subsidy, and supported California's EV sales mandate, both of which Trump is ending if he gets his way, upsetting Musk? Biden and Harris.