"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
Russell Vought came from Heritage Action. He's now Trump's shadow president, director of OMB. The Heritage Foundation is the author of Project 2025, the blueprint for white Christian nationalism.
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I don't understand why states aren't passing laws that say any AI data center built here is required to run on solar energy and have some kind of internal water recycling system. AI could have led the way in green energy to power these stupid things but this is just another reason to hate it.
If you don’t live in the Austin area, you don’t know that this is a big deal!
Yay Pflugerville!!! 🥳
They been movin a bit to the left, I’d say, but ain’t nobody gonna mistake it for Austin by a long shot. I’m in the general area, and I’d call it light red, myself.
Most Americans do not want right-wing policies or right-wing culture war bullshit.
These folks forgot how unpopular they really are.
The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.
To be clear, Skandalakis assigned this case to himself. And I disagree with his assessment.
Anyone with this kind of bullshit take of that infamous "find me 11,780 votes" call to Sec. of State Raffensperger was never going to prosecute Trump, Meadows, & the other defendants:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ
Now that Pamela Jo Bondi and Kash Patel have had enough time to scrub the files of Donald's name.
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Defendants do not deny any of this. Instead, their principal argument is that the UC might not agree to the proposed conditions for restoring funding, so Plaintiffs’ present case is too speculative to be heard. But Plaintiffs’ harm is already very real. With every day that passes, UCLA continues to be denied the chance to win new grants, ratchetting up Defendants’ pressure campaign. And numerous UC faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how Defendants’ actions have already chilled speech throughout the UC system. They describe how they have stopped teaching or researching topics they are afraid are too “left” or “woke,” in order to avoid triggering further funding cancellations by Defendants. They also give examples of projects the UC has stopped due to fear of the same reprisals. These are classic, predictable First Amendment harms, and exactly what Defendants publicly said that they intended. The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and Case 3:25-cv-07864-RFL Document 90 Filed 11/14/25 Page 2 of 76 3 retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment. It also shows that they have flouted the requirements of Title VI and IX and cancelled funding in an arbitrary and capricious manner while ignoring required procedural safeguards. None of the jurisdictional
Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
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Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
People who ain’t acquainted with the man truly don’t understand just how vicious & awful a human bein Greg Abbott is.
Sees the world as “us & them” & ain’t nobody colder or meaner to anybody who’s “them.”
He don’t turn a blind eye to the harm he done, he watches & glories in causin sufferin.
More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
As always, anecdote don’t pluralize to data, but I can tell you, livin here, lotsa folk who usedta be loud & proud Trumpers ain’t loud or proud no more. & the ones who was only ever holdin they nose to vote for him, who ain’t shut up bout Rs gone fix things? They changin the fuckin subject.
YES. I’m of the opinion that No Kings made it real obvious not just how many showed up, but how few *counter-protesters* did.
In Texas, used to be drivin around you’d have you a fair number of Trump trucks, flags, MAGA gear vehicles all fired up & fulla piss & vinegar.
Ain’t seen a one today.
I ain’t wanna bring nobody down.
I do get to feelin despair, thinkin on certain historical precedents. Secular constitutional Iran less’n 100 years ago gettin reduced to this God damn travesty is a big one.
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
I’m curious, myself. What was the tippin point? My guess is for most people it’ll be when they was directly affected.
This ain’t hyperbole. This the game plan. Ten years ago I’da thought it was a bad B movie.
Lotsa people still lookin around like, who’s gone step up & stop this? Lotsa people thinkin they can hunker down until 2026. Panic ain’t productive, but hell if I know what to do.
Our assessment warned of this pattern: delegitimize investigators, glorify offenders, and erode trust in law enforcement until loyalty replaces the law.
