Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

And here we go: more actions he's not empowered to take. bsky.app/profile/josh...

more of this messaging from Dems, pls.

“But crucially,the person to whom I am speaking can only understand what I am trying to say if they do the converse:if they see past my individual words and have a sudden intuition of more unified, coherent idea that I had in mind and was trying to communicate”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Oh no! Trump will think, I wanted to save money, but by doing this people could suffer, that’s bad. I’d better fix this. People’s wellbeing is especially important to me.

It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.

Seems to me that this is exactly correct – and exactly consistent with MLK’s 1967 comments re “unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality.”

Daily reminder of who Musk is:

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

The Washington Post ed board once said Elise Stefanik was participating in the "sabotage of democracy." It said she "spread treacherous disinformation" and had "permanently stained" herself.

Now it endorses her, saying she lacks "disqualifying deficiencies."
www.findinggravity.net/p/the-washin...

Response from
@janemayer.bsky.social on X
“So RFKjr. Thinks he’ll fight PhRMA by stopping NIH from researching cancer & infectious diseases for 8 years? It will just get underpaid public-serving scientists to go to PhRMA. The losers will be sick Americans who need unprofitable research.”