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Committing war crimes and/or murder is a right that can be reserved?
This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups."
But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Committing war crimes and/or murder is a right that can be reserved?
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When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.
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"The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump’s Targeting of ‘Narcoterrorists’ Is a Crime in Itself
Shoot first, ask questions when?
www.thebulwark.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...
so he’s punishing Canada by raising taxes on Americans?? sounds like every other ass-backwards idea to come out of MAGA. moronic.
BREAKING: Trump says he's punishing Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down an anti-tariff ad sooner.
Trump punishes Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
so he’s punishing Canada by raising taxes on Americans?? sounds like every other ass-backwards idea to come out of MAGA. moronic.
“he broke his leg”?? or ICE broke it for him??
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“he broke his leg”?? or ICE broke it for him??
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Tariffs are making it more expensive and inconvenient for Americans to explore their creative sides.
'Tariffs will simply put us all out of business': Trump's trade war is crushing American crafters
Tariffs are making it more expensive and inconvenient for Americans to explore their creative sides.
reason.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Tariffs are making it more expensive and inconvenient for Americans to explore their creative sides.
well, ignoramuses are gonna ignoramus.
August 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
well, ignoramuses are gonna ignoramus.
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A new shameful low. Even for Trump and MAGA. Everything about this story reveals the sickness that has taken over America.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.
www.rollingstone.com
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A new shameful low. Even for Trump and MAGA. Everything about this story reveals the sickness that has taken over America.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
not only absurd. the practice is actively counterproductive to children developing into productive, healthy, functional adults. we’re affirmatively, by law & custom, damaging at least an entire generation. probably more than one.
These stories are totally insane. CPS investigated a small-town Virginia mom *four* times for..letting her kids play outside unsupervised. That used to be called a "normal childhood." Absurd that we now require helicopter parenting by law. reason.com/2025/08/09/c...
Child protective services investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside
"I was told that children could never be left alone, inside or outside the home—EVEN IN THEIR OWN BEDROOMS—until they were 13 years old."
reason.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
not only absurd. the practice is actively counterproductive to children developing into productive, healthy, functional adults. we’re affirmatively, by law & custom, damaging at least an entire generation. probably more than one.
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These stories are totally insane. CPS investigated a small-town Virginia mom *four* times for..letting her kids play outside unsupervised. That used to be called a "normal childhood." Absurd that we now require helicopter parenting by law. reason.com/2025/08/09/c...
Child protective services investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside
"I was told that children could never be left alone, inside or outside the home—EVEN IN THEIR OWN BEDROOMS—until they were 13 years old."
reason.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
These stories are totally insane. CPS investigated a small-town Virginia mom *four* times for..letting her kids play outside unsupervised. That used to be called a "normal childhood." Absurd that we now require helicopter parenting by law. reason.com/2025/08/09/c...
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All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities."
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
arstechnica.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities."
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities."
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
arstechnica.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
also, why has he emulated many of the worst practices & traits of those very regimes in his administration??!!
For years, Donald Trump has rightly railed against oppressive regimes.
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
Trump is trying to fast-track deportations for Cubans and Venezuelans who came to the U.S. legally
For years, the president has rightly railed against those oppressive regimes. So why is his administration targeting their victims?
reason.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
also, why has he emulated many of the worst practices & traits of those very regimes in his administration??!!
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For years, Donald Trump has rightly railed against oppressive regimes.
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
Trump is trying to fast-track deportations for Cubans and Venezuelans who came to the U.S. legally
For years, the president has rightly railed against those oppressive regimes. So why is his administration targeting their victims?
reason.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
For years, Donald Trump has rightly railed against oppressive regimes.
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
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LB Anfernee Jennings playing in the 2nd half, at a time when the night has been over for most of the Patriots' front-line contributors.
Jennings was a sure-fire fit in the prior defensive scheme as a sturdy edge-setter.
His fit in this upfield, attacking scheme not as ideal.
Jennings was a sure-fire fit in the prior defensive scheme as a sturdy edge-setter.
His fit in this upfield, attacking scheme not as ideal.
August 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
LB Anfernee Jennings playing in the 2nd half, at a time when the night has been over for most of the Patriots' front-line contributors.
Jennings was a sure-fire fit in the prior defensive scheme as a sturdy edge-setter.
His fit in this upfield, attacking scheme not as ideal.
Jennings was a sure-fire fit in the prior defensive scheme as a sturdy edge-setter.
His fit in this upfield, attacking scheme not as ideal.
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There's a reason he's a Gold Glover.
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There's a reason he's a Gold Glover.
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“That’s a bad decision.” — Mike Vrabel, on Drake Maye’s fumble, while saying the Patriots will need better moving forward
August 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“That’s a bad decision.” — Mike Vrabel, on Drake Maye’s fumble, while saying the Patriots will need better moving forward
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Mike Vrabel: Will have to tackle better, and throw the ball better, but this was a good start.
August 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Mike Vrabel: Will have to tackle better, and throw the ball better, but this was a good start.
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/2 However, something being clearly true as a matter of constitutional law doesn’t translate into something being enforceable without an operative array of institutions and norms, which are failing in America in favor of anti-Constitutional institutions and norms.
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
/2 However, something being clearly true as a matter of constitutional law doesn’t translate into something being enforceable without an operative array of institutions and norms, which are failing in America in favor of anti-Constitutional institutions and norms.
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Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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3/ shall be based on the "whole number of persons" residing in the state. Persons. It couldn't be more clear. Unless the argument is that undocumented residents aren't human or aren't alive they have to be counted.
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
3/ shall be based on the "whole number of persons" residing in the state. Persons. It couldn't be more clear. Unless the argument is that undocumented residents aren't human or aren't alive they have to be counted.
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2/ made this more clear and expanded it since the authors of the 14th amendment were extremely clear that they didn't want the count to be in any way based on the status of people, citizen, non-citizen, various states of freedom or wealth. Anything. It says explicitly that apportionment ...
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
2/ made this more clear and expanded it since the authors of the 14th amendment were extremely clear that they didn't want the count to be in any way based on the status of people, citizen, non-citizen, various states of freedom or wealth. Anything. It says explicitly that apportionment ...
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Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
And now the census
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
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As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
August 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
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It's infuriating that the entire political universe understands why this is happening - Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are gutter bigots whose nativist politics are rooted in their all-consuming hatred of nonwhite foreigners - but for some reason we can't say it out loud.
Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students
Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
www.forbes.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's infuriating that the entire political universe understands why this is happening - Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are gutter bigots whose nativist politics are rooted in their all-consuming hatred of nonwhite foreigners - but for some reason we can't say it out loud.