Automatic military draft registration takes effect in December. Here’s how it would work | CNN Politics Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last year.

They can do this, but they can't register people to vote automatically. www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/p...

04.01.26 Today's headlines

04.01.26 Today's headlines: better news. open.substack.com/pub/judithle...

There was a bunker under the East Wing, where Dick Cheney fled on 9/11.

There was a bunker under the East Wing. V-P Dick Cheney fled there on 9/11.

Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.

This is a concentration camp. Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Meanwhile, they are firing postal workers, closing post offices, & cutting funds to the USPS, which is about to run out of money altogether.

02.27.26 Gaza, briefly

Today in Fascism, 02.27.26: What Trump said and did not say in the SOTU about Gaza open.substack.com/pub/judithle...

extremely important info on ICE's new tactics of infiltration: www.instagram.com/p/DT6ec8DAEVX/

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Trump Drops Tariff Threats Over Greenland After Meeting With NATO Chief

Did Europe's just slightly less than totally abject stand change his wobbly little mind? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups

The calm, circumspect tone of this piece is infuriating. The FBI investigating the entire Mpples immigrant defense movement, including the victim's widow, for domestic terrorism "raise[s] the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized." Could be? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

We know Renee Nicole Good's name. Why do we not know the name of the ICE agent who murdered her?

Time for the ICC to arrest Trump

Now that he's wrecked the entire postwar structure of global law & order, can we impeach him?

Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands

M. Gessen gets it precisely right -- as always, only more so this time. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

16K views · 623 reactions | Here's the 60 Minutes segment Bari Weiss didn't want you to see but forgot to remove from a broadcast package sent to a streaming app. | Charlotte Clymer Here's the 60 Minutes segment Bari Weiss didn't want you to see but forgot to remove from a broadcast package sent to a streaming app.

Charlotte Clymer posted the 60 Minutes CECOT segment that Bari Weiss censored. Here it is: www.facebook.com/reel/1417912...

Trump is remodeling Washington to fit his twisted vision of America | Judith Levine The administration is offloading gems of US architecture while redesigning the city to match the president’s values

Trump is selling off our collective architectural heritage and remaking DC in his own twisted image. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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11.03.25 The VA's alien enemies list

The VA is compiling an enemy aliens list. This probably is not what Abe Lincoln had in mind. open.substack.com/pub/judithle...

Trump Wrecks Republicans’ Biggest Talking Points on Zohran Mamdani Donald Trump was shockingly smitten with Zohran Mamdani.

Trump says he'd feel comfortable living in Mamdani's NY. Why not? He never pays his taxes anyway. newrepublic.com/post/203544/... via @newrepublic.com

From Kate Dalton, the best response to Trump calling a woman reporter "Piggy": "That's MISS Piggy to you."

This is our fascist regime. We Followed the Rules. ICE Jailed Us Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Even more tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. Including, of course, Liberty Trust, Trump's crypto company. At the very same time Trump was withholding half of SNAP benefits, b/c, say $400/mo was too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Trump Administration Highlights: Senate Votes to Advance Measure to End Shutdown

Chuck Schumer has got to go. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Or Native Americans, the only people here who have true familial ties to the land. Sez my partner: "Does that include familial ties to stolen land?" Why the euphemisms? Oh, I forgot. This is the NY Times.

Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’

"'National conservativism' ... embrace[s] an American identity based not on the ideals of the nation’s founders but on the centrality of Christianity and familial ties to the land." So I guess that means churchgoing African Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Hands Off NYC Citywide Kickoff Call · NYC Indivisible American cities are under attack by the Trump administration. Instead of investing in schools, hospitals, and public services, taxpayer dollars are being spent to send National Guard troops and ICE ag...

Sign up for NYC Indivisible's “Hands Off NYC Citywide Kickoff Call” www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib...

The White House Wrecking Ball

So now it's clear U.S. taxpayers are going to pay for Trump's ballroom -- costs rising to $300 million. And MAGA: What happened to "Whose house? Our house!" the chant at the J6 riot?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

10.20.25 Trump dumps

10.21.25 Trump's carpet-pooping. open.substack.com/pub/judithle...