Jacob Pratt

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Experts doubt legal memo shields troops from prosecution over Trump’s boat strikes DOJ claims military personnel aren’t liable for what critics are calling extrajudicial murder

“Conflict experts tell The Independent that the “just following orders” defense may not stick under other administrations or federal judges who could find the strikes illegal, exposing Pentagon officials & others to criminal liability.”
Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.

As his one-time longtime best friend Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
"I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

Unironically blocking any reporters that use language like that. They aren't deserving of my attention or clicks.

This is as dystopian a move as possible right now

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

Worth pointing out that this is only possible because the “textualists” on the Supreme Court don’t like the text of Section 5 of the 14th Amendment or Section 2 of the 15th Amendment and so they just choose to act like those clauses don’t exist.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

I’ve been begging Dem reps to adopt criminal framing for Trump and GOP actions.

Because it’s clear, memorable, and has the benefit of being true.

The president is a convicted criminal.

He is out on bail.

His EO’s are illegal.

DOGE’s actions are illegal.

ICE is kidnapping people.

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know this is going on.”

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.