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Food & farms grassroots organizing by day, cultural ephemera all the time.
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Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union:

“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
greene.haus Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Sep 25
Marshall calls Vought a degenerate criminal for his threats to maul the people’s government, and he’s right — but the truth is even more galling.

Assent to our crimes against the Constitution, Vought now demands — or else he will commit further such crimes. He _revels_ in flouting his oath.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 25
This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
sehackney.bsky.social
This drives me nuts and it's so frustrating that it is completely something under their control that they could do more effectively if they chose.
September 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A lawyer on the ground on Sunday morning saw just how close things were, and how the flights were only stopped because a federal judge moved at light speed to halt the Trump admin's illegal operation.

She saw the plane begin to taxi to take off, only to turn around at the last second and come back.
14. I arrived at the FBO Sun Valley Airport in Harlingen. I could see two of the ICE transport planes parked on the tarmac. The stairs had already been pulled away and the door to the plane, which I had been informed had the children on board, was already closed. I went to the building at the tarmac. I could see officers inside. I knocked on the door. I told the young man who answered the door that I was an attorney, that I had clients on the plane, and that I had a court order stopping the plane from leaving. I asked to speak to his supervisor. I gave the same message to every person who badged in the locked door. I told them they were all complicit in violating a federal court order if the plane left. The young man came back out and told me that he had advised his supervisor who was trying to contact ICE. I explained again the federal court order and the importance of stopping the plane. Another agent came out and physically pulled the young man back into the building. I could see the other staff members through the glass. They were jeering and laughing. I repeated that they were all complicit in the violation of the judge’s order. 15. Around 10:30 am, while I was standing outside the FBO airport building, I saw one of the planes begin to move. I identified it as the plane that I believed ProBAR’s clients to be on. I knocked on the door again. I watched the plane taxi away from the building. About 20 minutes later, the plane taxied back and parked again. I stayed watching the plane with the children on it. It was hot, sunny, in the upper 90s. I thought about the children on that plane and how hot and stuffy it must have been, how tired they must be, and how scared and confused.
September 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM