Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

EPPC -DC’s far right Catholic think tank & Leonard Leo front. Princeton’s Robbie George on board. Mary Hasson, wife of founder of Becket Fund (Leo sits on board) is a fellow & board member of Napa. Google Ed Whelan & Christine Blasey Ford

@alexaronson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/courtacc...

Ok!

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart.

If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place.

All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago

We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

"The mistake that Jonathan Greenblatt made was believing that a hundred annoying students at Columbia were more dangerous than a gangster government."

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

This is real fucked up y’all.

#PDXStrong

Hell yeah David Byrne! #NoKings

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

I think we can and must expect a different Democratic Party now. But it’s going to take a lot of courage and outcampaigning corporatist milquetoast in primaries, in an ever harsher political landscape.

Swear her in.

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned much: Republicans could have passed whatever budget they wanted without Dem votes...if they hadn't already used reconciliation to force Trump's billionaire tax cuts and slash Medicaid and SNAP.

Roberts Court: "Sure, disappear brown people off the streets to South Sudan all day long, but don't fuck with our stock market."

LAW 👊

Republicans this week:

"If I intentionally drive this vehicle off a cliff, it will be the fault of the people in the car that didn't have control of the steering wheel."

loser shit

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

No Dollars for Dictators.
No Funding for Fascism.