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Suddenly an immigration lawyer. Not quite ready to give up on this place.
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One Billion Supreme Court Justices
On the other hand, they think entering without inspection is a serious offense so we’ll see
really don't see how they're going to manage to hit the Miller quota
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On the other hand, they think entering without inspection is a serious offense so we’ll see
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
By its own terms it does no such thing
Trump has signed an executive order blocking states from making their own guardrails around artificial intelligence
Trump Signs Order Blocking States From Enforcing Their Own AI Guardrails
www.huffpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
By its own terms it does no such thing
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It’s not good when a federal judge refers to your attempted nunc pro tunc statement of “Oopsie doodles we fucked up 6 years ago by not actually issuing the required order and you caught us so we’re gonna try it again” as an “Order” - with the quotation marks around it every time it’s mentioned.
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s not good when a federal judge refers to your attempted nunc pro tunc statement of “Oopsie doodles we fucked up 6 years ago by not actually issuing the required order and you caught us so we’re gonna try it again” as an “Order” - with the quotation marks around it every time it’s mentioned.
IJs are fake judges but some are more fake than others
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
IJs are fake judges but some are more fake than others
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The social media folks at @cnn.com might want to actually read this EO before they give it too much credence. It's basically "look for ways to blackmail states who take action" and "try to get Congress to do something I like." It blocks nothing, out of the gate.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The social media folks at @cnn.com might want to actually read this EO before they give it too much credence. It's basically "look for ways to blackmail states who take action" and "try to get Congress to do something I like." It blocks nothing, out of the gate.
Once again NYT wholly accepts Trump's framing. Here's what the order actually does:
1. AG to set task force to sue state AI laws on constitutional (??) grounds
2. Commerce Sec. to review state AI laws and report the ones he doesn't like (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
1. AG to set task force to sue state AI laws on constitutional (??) grounds
2. Commerce Sec. to review state AI laws and report the ones he doesn't like (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Once again NYT wholly accepts Trump's framing. Here's what the order actually does:
1. AG to set task force to sue state AI laws on constitutional (??) grounds
2. Commerce Sec. to review state AI laws and report the ones he doesn't like (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
1. AG to set task force to sue state AI laws on constitutional (??) grounds
2. Commerce Sec. to review state AI laws and report the ones he doesn't like (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Now they said no and he doesn't or can't stop federal funding, it's clear it's an empty threat from a diminished old man. See folks, it’s simply not that hard to tell this guy to pound sand. cc: university presidents.
Despite Donald Trump's demands, the Indiana State Senate has voted against Republican-led redistricting efforts.
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Now they said no and he doesn't or can't stop federal funding, it's clear it's an empty threat from a diminished old man. See folks, it’s simply not that hard to tell this guy to pound sand. cc: university presidents.
He bluffs about this more than he actually does it, but even still, when this is all over we really need to figure out how to impose immediate consequences for extortion-by-funding-cut. Losing in court (which they do, a lot!) clearly isn't enough of a deterrent.
December 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
He bluffs about this more than he actually does it, but even still, when this is all over we really need to figure out how to impose immediate consequences for extortion-by-funding-cut. Losing in court (which they do, a lot!) clearly isn't enough of a deterrent.
What the hell
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What the hell
Look at a certain point if you want to pay $1 million for a fake gold card that the government is under no obligation to honor, that’s on you
This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Look at a certain point if you want to pay $1 million for a fake gold card that the government is under no obligation to honor, that’s on you
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Turning the president into a dictator is all downhill of claims from the 1970s and 1980s that an Imperial Congress had shackled the president in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam. It has nothing to do with either present day circumstances or future hypotheticals.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Turning the president into a dictator is all downhill of claims from the 1970s and 1980s that an Imperial Congress had shackled the president in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam. It has nothing to do with either present day circumstances or future hypotheticals.
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Someone let me know if we fall ass-backwards into turning EOIR into Art. 3 courts
"You can't give the executive legislative or judicial power, and these agencies are wielding legislative and judicial power"
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Someone let me know if we fall ass-backwards into turning EOIR into Art. 3 courts
If this is anything like the draft text that was floating around a couple weeks ago, it’s basically just telling the DoJ to sue states over their AI rules. Which, sure, the last three DoJ attorneys can get right on that
Fun fact: you can’t overrule state law with an executive order
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If this is anything like the draft text that was floating around a couple weeks ago, it’s basically just telling the DoJ to sue states over their AI rules. Which, sure, the last three DoJ attorneys can get right on that
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i think maybe in general it is time for an overall pushback on forms of fanon that amount to "what if the villain isn't that bad" because all it has produced is the continuing moral relativisation of obvious evil. yes i am indeed saying that the yuuzhan vong storyline directly led to donald j trump
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i think maybe in general it is time for an overall pushback on forms of fanon that amount to "what if the villain isn't that bad" because all it has produced is the continuing moral relativisation of obvious evil. yes i am indeed saying that the yuuzhan vong storyline directly led to donald j trump
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this is what reddit is all about
From the KitchenConfidential community on Reddit: Cutting a couple of chives almost every day until this Reddit says they’re perfect. Day 58
Explore this post and more from the KitchenConfidential community
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December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
this is what reddit is all about
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Not that anyone gives a shit about hypocrisy anymore on the right, but if you applied this same sort of reasoning to the Second Amendment you could confiscate any gun more advanced than a flintlock musket
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Not that anyone gives a shit about hypocrisy anymore on the right, but if you applied this same sort of reasoning to the Second Amendment you could confiscate any gun more advanced than a flintlock musket
Then why didn't they just write "all freed persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Then why didn't they just write "all freed persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."
The Cuellar pardon is even funnier if you remember how Eric Adams had to debase himself just for the promise that he wouldn’t be prosecuted
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Cuellar pardon is even funnier if you remember how Eric Adams had to debase himself just for the promise that he wouldn’t be prosecuted
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The states should also defy it, not only on principle but because it's literally impossible, our vital records system simply does not even contain the information needed to know if anybody is or isn't in the categories Trump made up in his decree.
I feel like if the Court tries to nullify birthright citizenship then House Democrats should commit to impeaching all the Republican justices as soon as they get a majority. Even if the Senate won’t convict, make them make a spectacle out of it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The states should also defy it, not only on principle but because it's literally impossible, our vital records system simply does not even contain the information needed to know if anybody is or isn't in the categories Trump made up in his decree.
After a lifetime of being told that the true purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to prevent this sort of thing, I’m just waiting to see if it will actually happen
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
After a lifetime of being told that the true purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to prevent this sort of thing, I’m just waiting to see if it will actually happen
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
So presumably he’ll win the prize again next year, and 2027, and 2028. Do we think they keep giving it out after or does it disappear?
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So presumably he’ll win the prize again next year, and 2027, and 2028. Do we think they keep giving it out after or does it disappear?
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Ah well, nevertheless.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ah well, nevertheless.