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Lot of liberals out here saying - we should just accept martial law or he might declare martial law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

LAPD, DHS, and California National Guard working together to kettle and brutalize peaceful protesters. @mayor.lacity.gov is nowhere to be seen or heard from.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

California National Guard with riot shields pushed the protesters into the streets. Tear gas deployed and pellets exploded on the street. Didn’t see any arrests, though there was some shoving back and forth with the shields.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Perhaps Democrats should have reined in the President's powers over immigration, tariffs, and the National Guard in 2024 rather than attacking Tik Tok. None of what is happening should be a surprise.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

“you’re making the gestapo sad” is a hell of an argument

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

I am increasingly convinced that no one really knows with any great precision what this statute means. I am very confident that (1) the governor must have some kind of a role in its implementation (2) and forcing governors to implement federal law would be unconstitutional commandeering.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

They seem to think there’s a right to anonymous policing, but not to anonymous protest.

submitted 19 hours ago • 29 comments

I am concerned about this kind of analysis because I am not sure what is going on and who is characterizing it more accurately. What Trump has legally authorized within the four corners of the memo and what is actually happening may be quite different things.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Quick, someone tell me the price of eggs so I know whether this is an acceptable political issue for the Dems to go after

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Protestors have a First Amendment right to wear masks. But ICE agents are the government—and the government does not have any First Amendment rights.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

If there is no shortage of law enforcement this is absolutely no reason to do this and you should be saying so. Any orders to the National Guard need to go through you! It’s in the statute they’re invoking!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Well, the government killed a lot of the people in those orgs. Red baited others into social death. There was that whole neoliberal turn where we said non-profits were more civilized than activists. Even with all of that, those orgs (even some of their people!) are still very much around.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

what should be particularly scary about this is that assault on an officer is an exceptionally abused charge. it’s tacked on to nonviolent offenses constantly and used to harass people who’ve committed no offense at all.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

submitted 21 hours ago • 228 comments

If you interrupt his podcast schedule there will be hell to pay

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

“Firing back”

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 1 day ago • 779 comments

We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation. (Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

The people who said we should abolish ICE were right. The people who said we should defund the police, were right. The righteous are always cursed with being too early.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

there is merit — people demonstrating that they have the capacity to complete a given task — and “merit,” an ontological category reserved for some people and not others

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

NEW: Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead. A one-two punch: DOGE gets access to your data, but the public is restricted from getting information about DOGE. Today, at Law Dork:

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

The NY Times answers that yes, it is ok, actually, to earn rental income from a gulag.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“Why are these police dressed like they’re going into combat” Cause we gave them the clothes and the gear. There was a very public discussion about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

We really need to start caring about lying, as a society

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

No end to the depravity: the Bronx high school abducted by ICE and hidden from his lawyers has received a serious medical diagnosis that he can’t be informed of because he has literally been disappeared by the state. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Think about the economic ramifications of this for the greater Baltimore area. This is why I’m fairly sure we’re going to have a recession even if tariffs get blocked.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

The temptation to always frame things as merely approaching but never actually crossing a red line has inured us to the reality that they are already defying court orders on a scale and as official policy to a degree unprecedented in American history.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

submitted 9 days ago • 633 comments

NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

submitted 9 days ago • 154 comments

Politico scoops the Rubio memo outlining the criteria that could nix a student’s visa application. It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point. www.politico.com/news/2025/05... Via @nahaltoosi.bsky.social @ebazail.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 10 days ago • 431 comments

still waiting for one (1) reporter with access to ask Musk or Trump what they think about Amy Gleason’s job performance

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

submitted 11 days ago • 1204 comments

We're at the point where higher education cannot count on any international students being present in the fall. One of America's biggest export industries is quickly being demolished.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

For the record, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry reached the same conclusion a couple of decades ago. (Yes—older sister.) I mean, of course it is, just read the damn thing.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

submitted 11 days ago • 143 comments