Call me old fashioned but I’m generally against turning everything into gambling

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Depends on the meds!

The idea that historical fascism was evil, yes, but also orderly, disciplined and rational also unwillingly propagates fascist propaganda. That’s the image the Nazis wanted to project: Strong, a well-oiled machine… But it wasn’t true for Nazi Germany and certainly not for all fascist movements.

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

it is a real problem that none of the people who interview these guys are equipped to ask a question like, “what gives this president greater legitimacy than a law passed by a democratically-elected legislature, signed by a previous president and affirmed by subsequent legislatures and presidents?”