@radleybalko
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. New podcast: Collateral Damage Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect
For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen.
Then came a FOIA request from @weareoversight.bsky.social.
“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Noem during Tuesday’s hearing. “Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem said. “Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy interjected. Noem answered again in the affirmative multiple times. “I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Russ Vought” at the Office of Management and Budget “would have agreed to that,” he added. These frustrations have prompted the president to privately express his openness to replacing her, according to a person familiar with the matter. One name he has begun floating this week as a potential replacement: Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin.
Of all the bad looks from this week's hearings with Kristi Noem, it is not that she's NOT deporting the worst of the worst, that her fuck bunny signs contracts, OR that she has tanked his polling on most popular issue. It's that she claims he knew of her corrupt propaganda contract.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
lol
The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary
Trump during White House celebration with Inter Miami: "The election was rigged and stolen"
Last week Greg Gutfeld smeared and maligned a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. Haley Robson was a minor aged high school student when she was abused, manipulated and threatened by Epstein. I've included an excerpt of her statement from the press conference Fox didn't air.
A Florida bill would create a "counterterrorism unit" to “detect and neutralize” people, groups, businesses, and others whose "actions, views or opinions are a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state and the United States of America.”
Already passed a State senate committee 7-1.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
Especially amazing given that Trump completely “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities just eight months ago.
Tweets about people asking Grok which president told the most lies.
Bahahaha. 😁😏
#DJT #DJ6T #FDJ6T #PantsOnFireDJ6T
Judge Murphy: “Is it your position that is totally unreviewable? If [RFK Jr.] said instead of getting a shot to prevent measles I think you should get a shot that gives you measles, is that unreviewable?”
Department of Justice: Yes
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
"But when the same mistakes happen over and over again - the picture can start to look different," he wrote. "What looks like inadvertence (when it happens once) might begin to inch closer to looking intentional (when it happens more than once a week)." Farbiarz's opinion orders an extraordinary remedy for prosecutors in all of the judge's immigration-habeas cases - those in which a detained immigration challenges their detention - where Farbiarz issues a no-transfer order. Prosecutors will be required to sign a declaration, under penalty of perjury, that they have received the injunction, conveyed it to ICE, and provided ICE with written legal advice on the agency's obligation to comply with the order. And ICE will be required to sign a second declaration confirming it received the injunction and has received written legal advice from prosecutors on its obligation to comply with the order. "Requiring declarations is intrusive. But it is a narrowly-tailored way to address the precise problem before the Court - of ensuring going-forward compliance with judicial no-transfer orders," Farbiarz wrote.
New Jersey federal judge Michael Farbiarz has threatened criminal contempt against ICE and ordered a very unusual remedy as an intermediate step: requiring both DOJ and ICE to certify receipt of his orders under oath newjerseymonitor.com/2026/03/03/j...
Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.
So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?
Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
28 USC 530B(a): "An attorney for the Government shall be subject to state laws and rules ... governing attorneys in each State where such attorney engages in that attorney's duties, to the same extent and in the same manner as other attorneys in that state."
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www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
I agree, quite apart from the merits of the case. Alito could only defend the Supreme Court's authority to intervene by grievously misrepresenting the facts. The reality is that there's no plausible argument SCOTUS had the power to do what it did. Why didn't that matter to six justices?
New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.
When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?
THIIIIIIIIIS.
And not just here. All over the place.
Like, I’d love a future Dem President to say “I’ve scoured the Constitution and can’t find a ‘major question’ rule anywhere in it. So I’m just going to ignore that effort to arrogate power to yourself. That imbalance? Checked.”
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Unfortunately, as Trump pointed out, our bombs were so successful that we accidentally killed everyone not named Ayatollah Khamenei.
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
Earlier today, someone mentioned a study or survey which found that media coverage of crime in NYC spiked leading up to Adams' election in 2022, then dropped immediately after he took office, even though crime actually went up.
Anyone recall who did that study? Can't seem to find it.
