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Not a criminal. Not a gang member. A toddler. They’re deporting toddlers.

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

According to two sources, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF

submitted 11 hours ago • 273 comments

When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble

submitted 20 hours ago • 796 comments

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

submitted 18 hours ago • 623 comments

If they were arresting judges in another country with an authoritarian-inclined (even if democratically elected) government, we'd be alarmed. We in the U.S. should be alarmed.

submitted 15 hours ago • 233 comments

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 11 hours ago • 275 comments

Wikipedia is an example of what a free and democratized internet could be. It is under attack because it is the antithesis to the oligarchs’ vision for a monopolized internet, where a few billionaires control everything. The whole internet (and world) would be better if it were more like Wikipedia.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

submitted 14 hours ago • 479 comments

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

submitted 12 hours ago • 578 comments

there are only 195 generally recognized countries. is he making deals with Wakanda?

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

submitted 15 hours ago • 576 comments

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.

submitted 18 hours ago • 608 comments

The Prigg v. Pennsylvania vibes are a little too close for comfort.

submitted 21 hours ago • 43 comments

Relying on judges, courts, and the law alone will get you nowhere.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Awful. Horrible. I don’t know if this judge did anything wrong. But I can say that if this Admin insists on disappearing migrants to foreign gulags in violation of court orders, more & more ppl will feel compelled to thwart ICE. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 69 comments

Things to watch for on the arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan: 1. Likely arrested on a criminal complaint, which will include an affidavit describing the evidence. Evaluate carefully. 2. What’s the government’s stance on bail going to be? Normally this would be a minimal bail.

submitted 20 hours ago • 94 comments

A New Mexico judge and his wife have also been arrested, for allegedly hiding a TdA gang member in their home. Given recent history, it’s probably best to take the “hiding” and “gang member” allegations with a fistful of salt. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 18 hours ago • 182 comments

Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):

submitted 17 hours ago • 255 comments

Government officials were quietly developing a plan to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia before Trump appointees muscled their way in and halted it, per the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

Yesterday, Amanda Frost at the National Constitution Center said, "There's lots of interesting and hard constitutional questions out there and I don't think [birthright citizenship] is one of them." She went on to say the 14A was designed to end the debate. The debate itself is anti-constitutional.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

submitted 20 hours ago • 47 comments

Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.

submitted 1 day ago • 780 comments

Someone just doesn’t understand the super genius galaxy brain plan to increase American manufacturing.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Due process is not negotiable.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

submitted 1 day ago • 719 comments

It all starts making sense when you stop thinking of the Republican Party as a political movement and instead think of it as a criminal enterprise.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 296 comments

I love America. But if I weren't from here, I wouldn't dare come here now.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Thank you, Trump voters. This should make America healthy again.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Reuters poll: Trump approval 37% approve 57% disapprove U.S. adults

submitted 1 day ago • 334 comments

Trump and his administration have lost seven cases so far today.

submitted 1 day ago • 419 comments

Everyone should remember to thank John Roberts for giving the President the power to personally direct the AG to launch an investigation, undercutting the hard-won post-Watergate norm of DOJ independence. And based on a strained and ahistorical reading of the Executive Vesting Clause.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Quite a day (and late night). It started with an accidental memo that tore up the Trump admin’s case against congestion pricing. By morning, the DOT was accusing its own lawyers of sabotage, and by afternoon, those lawyers were out. The case is just warming up www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Executive orders are not laws.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NEW: RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK prevails on the hard jurisdictional questions and Judge Sessions orders her brought to Vermont for further proceedings. 74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments