Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

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In May 2025, Trump ended federal oversight of the Memphis police department to stop "handcuffing local leaders." Four months later, Trump is sending the National Guard into Memphis to "fix" the "troubled city."

I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If we’re gonna take Mayor Muriel Bowser’s claim that crime is down due to our federal occupation at face value, let’s also calculate all the illegal arrests, detentions, and disappearances. Cause we know those are crimes too.

ICE terrorized my neighborhood of Mt Pleasant today so we reclaimed the plaza — our community living room — with joy and love and messages of resilience. Thank you to everyone who turned out, let’s do it again!! These few photos do not do it justice @freedcproject.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social

Last night DC neighbors showed up at a police checkpoint at 14th & V ST. NW with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid the block.

After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe

DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center.

Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.

I’m so proud of our team’s work on this, alongside our colleagues at the ACLU and the rest of the litigation team. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

American Bar Association sues Trump Admin to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”