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San Franciscan, writer, analyst. Interests: democracy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, art, flowers, pastry.
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In a 3-0 decision, the Court of Appeals rules against the Trump administration on the appointment of Alina Habba as interim US attorney in New Jersey www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In a 3-0 decision, the Court of Appeals rules against the Trump administration on the appointment of Alina Habba as interim US attorney in New Jersey www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
HabbaOpn120125
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Trump's busy trolling around Mar-a-Lago interviewing for the replacement appointments
BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
HabbaOpn120125
www.documentcloud.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump's busy trolling around Mar-a-Lago interviewing for the replacement appointments
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The shoot first, ask questions later Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shoot-firs...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shoot-firs...
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The shoot first, ask questions later Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shoot-firs...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shoot-firs...
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Kash receives a "scathing assessment" in a new report prepared for the ranking members of the House and Senate judiciary committees by active-duty and retired agents.
• insecure
• in over his head
• dismal leadership
• lacking the experience necessary
#DefendersOfDemocracy
cont'd 👇
• insecure
• in over his head
• dismal leadership
• lacking the experience necessary
#DefendersOfDemocracy
cont'd 👇
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Kash receives a "scathing assessment" in a new report prepared for the ranking members of the House and Senate judiciary committees by active-duty and retired agents.
• insecure
• in over his head
• dismal leadership
• lacking the experience necessary
#DefendersOfDemocracy
cont'd 👇
• insecure
• in over his head
• dismal leadership
• lacking the experience necessary
#DefendersOfDemocracy
cont'd 👇
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Remember when Pete Hegseth fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
In Pursuit of a ‘Warrior Ethos,’ Hegseth Targets Military’s Top Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Remember when Pete Hegseth fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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As I discussed with Greg and in this piece, after its first year under a dictatorship, the United States now has its first lame duck dictator. An increasingly unpopular, and mentally and physically deteriorating, Trump will also be very dangerous - requiring an ever more effective opposition.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As I discussed with Greg and in this piece, after its first year under a dictatorship, the United States now has its first lame duck dictator. An increasingly unpopular, and mentally and physically deteriorating, Trump will also be very dangerous - requiring an ever more effective opposition.
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The real suckers and losers
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The real suckers and losers
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We’re a full month into ACA Open Enrollment.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’re a full month into ACA Open Enrollment.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
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It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
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We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
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“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
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I aced the cognitive test. Also, drug prices are coming down 700 percent.
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I aced the cognitive test. Also, drug prices are coming down 700 percent.
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The man with the nuclear codes
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The man with the nuclear codes
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Cash, trump coin or bitcoin?
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Cash, trump coin or bitcoin?
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Disgusting post by Hegseth last night.
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Disgusting post by Hegseth last night.
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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I never recalled such horrific violence and crime that needed to be stopped in cities across America until Trump took office.
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I never recalled such horrific violence and crime that needed to be stopped in cities across America until Trump took office.
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They’re not your National Guard. They belong to the states in which they live in or are stationed with.
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
They’re not your National Guard. They belong to the states in which they live in or are stationed with.
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Federal courts have ruled that Trump’s activation of the National Guard in California, Oregon, Illinois and even DC is illegal
But it seems Pam Bondi is determined to join Pete Hegseth by issuing illegal orders to our troops
But it seems Pam Bondi is determined to join Pete Hegseth by issuing illegal orders to our troops
Bondi: "Yes, we are bringing in our National Guard to every city we possibly can who needs our help. And that's a lot of them."
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Federal courts have ruled that Trump’s activation of the National Guard in California, Oregon, Illinois and even DC is illegal
But it seems Pam Bondi is determined to join Pete Hegseth by issuing illegal orders to our troops
But it seems Pam Bondi is determined to join Pete Hegseth by issuing illegal orders to our troops
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These ¶¶ appear around 48 ¶¶ into a long piece about how CBP's invasion "shocks the conscience."
The story never gets around to explaining that Tricia McLaughlin is another pathological liar.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The story never gets around to explaining that Tricia McLaughlin is another pathological liar.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
These ¶¶ appear around 48 ¶¶ into a long piece about how CBP's invasion "shocks the conscience."
The story never gets around to explaining that Tricia McLaughlin is another pathological liar.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The story never gets around to explaining that Tricia McLaughlin is another pathological liar.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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