The technical legalities of federal interference with state law enforcement are less important than its fundamental challenge to our constitutional system of government. The whole point of the system of state control of local law enforcement and of state militias is as a check against federal abuse of power. This has been true since the founding of the United States, and the only alteration to this system of divided power was after the Civil War, when the federal government was given the authority by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to intervene directly in state governance to purge the taint of the system of slavery from our nation. Since then, the only time that the federal government has used military force to overturn the autonomy of state governments over local law enforcement was yet again in order to further purge the taint of slavery by enforcing desegregation at the end of the Jim Crow period. Now Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are turning this basic constitutional presupposition of our federal system of government on its head. Federal control over military power is being abused to support a system of due process-free snatch-and-grab immigration “enforcement” against state opposition that’s bears a shocking resemblance to the conflicts over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, to suppress lawful protest that is protected by the First Amendment, and to take over criminal jurisdiction from localities on the pretext of racist stereotypes about urban criminality. This is yet another way in which the current president has betrayed the basic constitutional structure of the United States and yet another ground for impeachment by any Congress that would be faithful to that structure.

our press team asked if I wanted to be included in a media advisory about trump's national guard dictator behavior. No clue if they'll actually dare to use what I sent them, but I'm just going to say how it is

Also, voting rights should be given to saloons, and not individual saloon patrons.

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late last year I got really into talking about Project 2025, hoping it could be held at bay. Now we're living it. The stuff I've been doing since has felt, idk, not worth posting about. I struggle with that.

But now I do want to start talking about a thing I'm doing: @newsrelaynetwork.bsky.social

Interesting thread! Key detail here, presuming the U.S. Marshal was not lying, is that this operation involved a signed judicial warrant. What the warrant was for, obviously unclear.

Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.

Trump trying to fix a historically bad jobs report by firing someone.

well, that should tamp down the speculation, great work everyone

The hall of mirrors at Versailles is about 8,000 sqft; the largest room in the palace, the Gallery of Great Battles, is like 16,000 sqft.

1 of 18/ Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4784: Trump on Tarmac in Scotland – Asked About His Name Appearing In The Epstein Files – Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence

Holy shit -- Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes.

Obama was president in 2008.

Biden was president in 2020.

It's been a bit since I've done a meteorological deep dive, but the devastating flash #flood in central Texas this July 4th/5th deserve a closer look. #TXwx

Yes remnants of #Barry were involved helping enhance moisture. A remnant MCV from Mexico on 3 July also played a role.

Full evolution below ⤵️

Republican Jewish people, on the other hand, are just fine with this antisemitism.

This captures the nail in the coffin for many relationships with people i used to admire.

To see people gleefully saying "those people" including citizens dont deserve due process made me see them, not as misguided, but wilfully fascist

Not too many Black folks will be surprised that the very first civilian Trump’s Marines detained in Los Angeles was a Black man.

A veteran.

Shameful.

How soon until Linda McMahon mandates this bill be put in school curriculum across the country?

At Trump's $148 million meme coin dinner, 'the food sucked' and security was lax, attendee says Trump’s meme coin dropped 16% the morning after a black-tie gala for buyers, triggering political backlash that threatens to derail stablecoin legislation.

People _line_ up to get suckered by this cretin.

They gave him tens of millions of dollars. In return he gave them 23 minutes of his time—none of it one-on-one, all scripted but for a few bingo-card-foreseeable asides—some garbage food, and...nothing else.

Easily predicted by anyone who knows him.

Yes rambling incoherently again, but apparently it’s an ode to William Leavitt, the racist postwar developer of suburbs who boasted about his use of racially restrictive deed covenants & continued to try to enforce them after SCOTUS ruled them unenforceable in 1948.

Everyone’s got to have heroes.

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

What I have to say about Jake Tapper, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Jon Stewart, et al is that it is nearly impossible for people whose incomes are on the far right of this graph to provide coherent political commentary or even basic news reporting for the 320+ million on the left half of the graph.

The Trump administration's position on police brutality is that they're for it.

Sarah Hollowell @sarahhollowell I love when you ask someone about a thing they know a lot about and they start with "okay, so" because you KNOW you're about to get a novel's worth of nerd sh t and it's going to be so delightful

Yesss

Jasmine Crockett: "That's why they hired everybody from Fox because all they're trying to do is put on a show. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody."

Back the blue? Your followers BEAT the blue on Jan. 6 and then you pardoned them. Shameful.

South African whites are 9% of the population but own 65% of the wealth

Biggest eye roll EVER at them saying they’re oppressed. 🤣🙄

Military commanders will be told to send transgender troops to medical checks to oust them Defense officials say military commanders will be told to identify troops in their units who are transgender or have gender dysphoria, then send them to medical checks in order to force them out of th...

He can go fuck himself.

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“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.