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The "pro-worker" president, everyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

submitted 7 hours ago • 1243 comments

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

submitted 17 hours ago • 161 comments

Here's the Washington Examiner piece that first quoted Stephen Miller ordering ICE to invade Home Deport a few weeks ago. This makes it clear that Miller himself ordered the escalation that has led to conflict in LA. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

submitted 14 hours ago • 167 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 17 hours ago • 345 comments

Information on Governors' powers when a president mobilizes the National Guard. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 18 hours ago • 203 comments

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

submitted 21 hours ago • 141 comments

submitted 14 hours ago • 219 comments

The statute that President Trump has invoked - 10 U.S.C. § 12406 - has an important proviso: “orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States" Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 17 hours ago • 73 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 16 hours ago • 48 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 19 hours ago • 810 comments

Okay there it is.

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 171 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 2384 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 1 day ago • 1483 comments

Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget bill that would amount to one of the greatest transfers of wealth from the working poor to the super rich. And two billionaire oligarchs are fighting about it because the bill doesn't cut vital social programs enough. Hello?

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

DOGE has tried to gain entry to more than 80 data systems across at least a dozen different agencies, per NYT. Data sets "personal information about federal workers, detailed financial data about federal procurement and spending, and intimate personal details about the American public."

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

It’s time for the New York Times to abandon their failing journalism business and launch a dedicated console for their games

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

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submitted 1 day ago • 1076 comments

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...