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Posting about this and that and the other thing from the Desert Southwest and the serene shores of the pond at the Motley Moose.
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The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they’re violating state law and could be cited if they switch out or remove license plates on their unmarked vehicles.
Minnesota DVS warns ICE agents they’re violating state law by switching license plates
The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services told federal homeland security officials to stop license plate switching immediately. Gov. Tim Walz called tampering with plates “criminal activ...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they’re violating state law and could be cited if they switch out or remove license plates on their unmarked vehicles.
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J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
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Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.
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Are the Kansas City Chiefs moving from Missouri to Kansas to make Trump seem less stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Are the Kansas City Chiefs moving from Missouri to Kansas to make Trump seem less stupid?
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a lower court block on Trump’s attempt to send the National Guard to Chicago, ruling the president unlawfully used an archaic statute to federalize hundreds of state troops.
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump’s Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a lower court block on Trump’s attempt to send the National Guard to Chicago, ruling the president unlawfully used an archaic statute to federalize hundreds of state troops.
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Among other things, this “battleship” appears to have like four guns total
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Among other things, this “battleship” appears to have like four guns total
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Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)
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Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
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Black Music Sunday: Tunes for winter solstice and December
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Black Music Sunday: Tunes for winter solstice and December
� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Black Music Sunday: Tunes for winter solstice and December
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Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
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A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Fox News poll shows approval for members of the Trump administration
JD Vance: -8
Rubio: -5
RFK Jr: -12
Hegseth: -19
Kristi Noem: -13
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JD Vance: -8
Rubio: -5
RFK Jr: -12
Hegseth: -19
Kristi Noem: -13
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December 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Fox News poll shows approval for members of the Trump administration
JD Vance: -8
Rubio: -5
RFK Jr: -12
Hegseth: -19
Kristi Noem: -13
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JD Vance: -8
Rubio: -5
RFK Jr: -12
Hegseth: -19
Kristi Noem: -13
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Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.
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See, I know it's crazy talk but Congress can act if it wants to.
Bennett and Hickenlooper shut down minibus federal funding to save Boulder’s NCAR
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Colorado's U.S. senators hold up appropriations package over NCAR’s future
Many Colorado Democrats viewed the move to dismantle NCAR as retaliation over the state’s decision not to hand over or release former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters
coloradosun.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
See, I know it's crazy talk but Congress can act if it wants to.
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Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.
Q: Do you stand by your statement from earlier this year that nobody has died from USAID cuts?
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.
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Kerry Kennedy, niece of JFK:
"Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building."
"Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building."
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Kerry Kennedy, niece of JFK:
"Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building."
"Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building."
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Dumb
16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA:
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Dumb
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"Wang said in a phone call with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil that China and Venezuela are strategic partners and that mutual trust and support are a tradition of bilateral ties, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement."
China voices support for Venezuela, says it opposes 'unilateral bullying' reut.rs/44AwGHA
China voices support for Venezuela, says it opposes 'unilateral bullying'
China opposes "unilateral bullying" and supports countries in safeguarding their own sovereignty, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Venezuelan counterpart on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on the South American country.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Wang said in a phone call with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil that China and Venezuela are strategic partners and that mutual trust and support are a tradition of bilateral ties, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement."
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Introducing the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, Sen. @blumenthal.senate.gov told Law Dork that the Supreme Court's September order OK'ing "Kavanaugh stops" shows the need for his bill, as it would "require[] the Supreme Court to be accountable and explain its rulings." www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Introducing the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, Sen. @blumenthal.senate.gov told Law Dork that the Supreme Court's September order OK'ing "Kavanaugh stops" shows the need for his bill, as it would "require[] the Supreme Court to be accountable and explain its rulings." www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...
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this shit is like bedbugs, you think you’ve got it wiped out and then the second you’re not looking it’s back
Breaking news: U.S. Coast Guard allows a new workplace harassment policy to take effect, downgrading the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite facing backlash over the new language.
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
this shit is like bedbugs, you think you’ve got it wiped out and then the second you’re not looking it’s back
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The funny thing about this is that Vance is literally just a bunch of writhing, hissing ethnic grievances in a trenchcoat, it’s the only sentiment he ever expresses bsky.app/profile/dmsi...
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The funny thing about this is that Vance is literally just a bunch of writhing, hissing ethnic grievances in a trenchcoat, it’s the only sentiment he ever expresses bsky.app/profile/dmsi...
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why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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A great description of the AI infrastructure: The proposed area “is supposed to be a place of innovation, research and high-quality jobs,” he added, “not a row of concrete boxes, humming day and night with almost no long-term employment. That’s not smart growth to me. That’s a step backwards.”
lolz
"Residents packed a city council meeting to watch the data center go down in flames in a 7-0 vote. [Lobbyist Kyrsten] Sinema was nowhere to be found."
"Residents packed a city council meeting to watch the data center go down in flames in a 7-0 vote. [Lobbyist Kyrsten] Sinema was nowhere to be found."
Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote
Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A great description of the AI infrastructure: The proposed area “is supposed to be a place of innovation, research and high-quality jobs,” he added, “not a row of concrete boxes, humming day and night with almost no long-term employment. That’s not smart growth to me. That’s a step backwards.”