We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
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We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
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BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.
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Recall that the prior indictment of Maduro served as the predicate for the "law enforcement operation" in Venezuela (aka the illegal invasion and decapitation of its government).
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Why is the Cook County State’s Attorney prosecuting nonviolent ICE protesters? www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-cou...
What if every idea you have is the opposite of what is best?
McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked our bipartisan War Powers Resolution to rein in Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran.
They chose fealty to Trump over our troops' lives.
Big separation of powers problem (among others) given lawyers are supervised by the judicial branch.
digital tulips
A lot of people are confused about the War Powers Act.
It *does not* allow the president to make war without authorization from Congress at their personal whim.
It allows for use of the military in consultation with Congress when we have a national emergency because America is under attack.
Sam Alito playing the “correcting racial imbalance is racism” card extra hard here in this shadow docket stay.
The state court order says the district should be redrawn to better represent Latinos. Alito calls that effort to increase representation “blatant discrimination on the basis of race.”
Illinois State Police, Cook County Sheriff, and federal agent talking
One of the feds in a skull mask emerged to converse with Illinois State Police and sheriff’s deputy.
The crowd has dwindled to a few dozen.
The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
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Judge, please pardon me for being so direct, but your order of January 28 did not merely contain some errors, as you anticipated it may. Assuming the statistical sample we chose is as representative of the whole as I believe it likely is, the information compiled by others for your order was far beyond the pale of accuracy for an order that would be wielded so publicly and so sharply. The lawyers in my civil division didn't deserve it.
I mean, if I were ever to write anything half as insane as this to a federal judge I would likely be immediately disbarred.
This is one from Chris Geidner to read in full.
Federal prison officials face civil contempt hearing, as ICE is threatened with criminal contempt
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New in PN: Trump targets SCOTUS for stochastic terror
"The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone & there will be no consequences and barely any comment. The grim takeaway is that even justices, w/ all their power & prestige, no longer live in a democracy."
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was nearly blind, had other physical disabilities and spoke no English, was left by federal Customs and Border Patrol agents at night at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo that had already closed for the day, Mayor Sean Ryan said.
Read for a refresher on what happens to a nation when its people carelessly hand power to those with really bad intentions, it may seem eerily familiar.
Also THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE A BOOK so MAN UP PUBLISHERS! I would buy this book and copies for everyone I know.
This is unbelievable. Everyone of these slack-witted sycophants is proud of the fact that they stand when Trump tells them too. My dog has more independence than these clowns.
The MAGA trifecta cover-up of report on Trump’s crimes: on one “side,” the MAGA DOJ; on the other “side,” defendant Donald J. Trump; presiding, a MAGA Trump judge. So much for the “adversary system.”
bonus points if you can pronounce "epideictic" correctly on the first try
"was made up" being the key words in that sentence.
Rules for being human handed down from ancient Sanskrit You will receive a body. You will learn lessons. There are no mistakes, only lessons. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. Learning lessons does not end. “There” is no better than “Here.” Others are merely mirrors of you. What you make of your life is up to you. The answers lie inside you. Your answers lie inside you. You will forget all of this. You can remember it whenever you want.
If it's useful to you...
Next he'll be issuing an executive order saying we all must keep loaded unlocked guns in our homes within easy reach of children. He may as well. He's clearly trying to kill as many of us as possible.
At some point, federal judges are going to have to go beyond issuing strongly worded orders condemning ICE's lawlessness, and start fining recalcitrant Trump administration officials and/or putting them in jail
How is this legal?
Of what danger or threat is a crayon or a child's drawing?
This is a genocidal lie based on pure ignorance. Heritage is nothing more than the John Birch Society with spiffed up academic pedigrees. Do they really want us to return to the Dark Ages? Yes, yes they do.
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Someone really made this argument, in public court filings, with their real names attached:
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
yes
