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here is some research about the Network State and how it operates (with a lot of details that are missing from mainstream coverage).

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go.bsky.app/EgcM6di

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

submitted 37 days ago • 340 comments

Could be a few legal issues with this pitch from Erik Prince. “The proposal, exclusively obtained by POLITICO, says it would target ‘criminal illegal aliens’ and would attempt to skirt U.S. immigration laws by designating part of the prison…as American territory.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

What’s this new executive order directing the Department of Defense to take over huge amounts of public land on the border? Simple: it’s yet another abuse of emergency powers—this one seemingly designed to make an end-run around the Posse Comitatus Act. 1/17 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I did a deep dive into the criminal laws and past criminal cases that are most relevant to "Signal Gate." Focus your mind on this: Special prosecutor criminal case against former head of CIA John Deutch for "gross negligence" in use of his personal home computer for national defense information.

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments

Unfathomable incompetence!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

submitted 60 days ago • 37 comments

Of course!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments