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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025

Newsom on Trump's military parade: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, you see it with Putin, you see it with dictators around the world that are weak ... Weakness masquerading as strength ... that's about as small as it gets ... that's Donald Trump."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/06/2025

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces.
At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not.
His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump illegally commandeered the California National Guard. Control must now be returned to Governor Newsom by tomorrow at Noon. There are no Kings in the United States of America.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/06/2025

NEW: California files an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump admin from using "the federalized California National Guard and active duty Marines for law enforcement purposes on the streets of a civilian city." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.
Statement of Facts
Federal Immigration Enforcement Actions In Los Angeles
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Local Authorities Respond and Manage Conditions.
The President, Without the Governor's Consent, Federalizes 4,000
California National Guard Troops And Mobilizes Additional U.S. Marines.
Current Status of Protests and National Guard Deployment.
IV.
Legal Standard
Argument
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Plaintiffs Are Likely To Succeed on the Merits, And At A Minimum, Plaintiffs Present Serious Questions Going to the Merits A.
The Section 12406 Federalization Orders are Unlawful
There were no conditions in California that would allow invocation of Section 12406
2. The Governor did not issue the federalization order.
B.
The Orders are a substantial intrusion into the State of California's police powers.
C.
The Military's Threatened Law Enforcement Activities Will
Violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
The federalized National Guard and the Marines Corps are subject to the Posse Comitatus Act
There is a substantial likelihood that the National Guard and Marines will engage in activities that "amount to direct active involvement in the execution of the laws"
There is a Grave Risk of Imminent, Irreparable harm
The Public Interest and Balance of Equities Tip Sharply in Favor of A TRO

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

WTF? Trump is now threatening the American people. He warned protesters to stay away from his birthday/military parade in D.C. this Saturday, claiming anyone who shows up to protest “hates our country” and will be met with “very heavy force.” This is authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

nokings.org

No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/06/2025

conservatives are beginning to publicly workshop their rehabilitation of jeffery epstein lol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2025

Trump threatens to use “heavy force” against anyone who protests his military parade this weekend, and note that he makes no exception for peaceful protesters

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

every grindset, manosphere influencer is on the phone with their PR team asking whose side they should take

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/06/2025

The argument that Musk might face *personal* liability for some of the shit he did in government should get renewed interest right about now.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

SoCal earthquake quick everyone post about it so we know the site has the juice!

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have frozen funding for federal programs that provide support and sustenance to dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities, including Meals on Wheels.

marketwatch.com

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts

In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

ctvnews.ca

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If Biden had ever tried to prevent lawyers and firms representing Jan. 6 clients from entering federal buildings, or pulled the security clearances of lawyers representing Trump, there would have been calls for impeachment THE NEXT DAY. That’s all

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So, Trump is being found to have broken the law on average once every four days, and MAGA Twitter wants you to believe this is all lawfare from activist judges. There’s really no amount of pretzel logic that is too much for these people.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a *signal chat* and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter. Really unbelievable shit here. But her emails, right?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This OPSEC Special Bulletin went out to the Pentagon during the same time period that SECDEF was using an unauthorized Signal chat. You can’t make this shit up.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

every single video I've seen of the hearing today, Democratic Senators (including ones I don't even like) were pounding the shit out of administration officials. if the media will not play those clips, it's up to make them go viral, show our friends & family, etc. They did something. Reward them.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Trump wants to set rules for the way states run their elections and wants DOGE to audit voter databases. DOGE. Not an independent entity - his cronies. Mike Johnson is talking about eliminating district courts. These are not actions you see in a Democratic Republic.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excellent. Good job PA! The single most impactful thing you can do leading up to the midterms is to vote in every single state and local election.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just in case anyone was wondering, every bit of this was classified. Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If it’s true that Trump wasn’t briefed on four missing — presumed dead — soldiers in a Lithuania, someone needs to be fired. There’s not much higher on the priority list than MIA soldiers. Whoever dropped the ball there is failing POTUS in an inexcusable way.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/03/2025

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

seattletimes.com

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley

Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for. “You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Stephen Miller is on TV all day every day trying to explain how district court judges have no authority over POTUS. Stephen Miller also spent the last four years suing Biden in district court. I’m starting to think Stephen Miller isn’t arguing in good faith here. 🙄

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Judge REYES on a tear, telling DOJ she won't be "gaslit" by effort to say their ban on transgender people in the military isn't actually a "ban." She notes SecDef Hegseth literally called it a ban on X. "You're saying one thing in public. You're saying a different thing in court," Reyes said.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I've been keeping a running list of the nice things we used to have. It is VERY rough. Please tell me what I'm missing. If you want to use this list to do the project better, please do! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

emptywheel.net

Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away - emptywheel

A preliminary list of the things Trump has taken away.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trump: I hereby decree that a thing specifically defined by statute actually means something else. The stupidity, it burns.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:

New data on the reaction to Gavin Newsom’s new podcast:

- Favorability amongst Liberals has declined from 46% to 30%.

- While some Republicans agreed with his stances, they overwhelmingly viewed him as insincere, calling him “fake” and “pandering”

- His net favorability dropped from +4 to -6, a 10-point swing in the wrong direction.

- Only 13% of voters had an improved perception of him, and only 1 in 5 said the podcast made them want to tune in for more.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

thehandbasket.co

Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO

A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/03/2025

It's a commonly used anesthetic????

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...

minnesotareformer.com

GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl • Minnesota Reformer

Eichorn’s arrest complicates efforts by Senate Republicans to expel DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell from the upper chamber.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Trump administration has just removed a federal ban on contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains. This is a result of Trump’s executive order to combat DEI.