Mark Noel

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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.

I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.

everything about platner is a trainwreck. never seen so many simultaneous alarms that say DO NOT ELECT

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

just going to drop the marker that as of this writing the us has not lost an aircraft carrier to an attack since february, 1945. for posterity

77% of Democratic voters support abolishing ICE.

Any Democrat running for office who doesn’t call for abolishing ICE is wildly outside the mainstream.

MINUTE ORDER: The Court has read the parties Joint Status Report as to the Evidentiary Hearing [ECF No. 73]. The central point of contention is whether the upcoming hearing regarding defendants alleged noncompliance with the courts preliminary injunction order should include evidence of arrests where the noncitizen was encountered in the field with no warrant (i.e., they were a "collateral"), and then the ICE or other DHS agent obtained a warrant over the phone or otherwise after they initially stopped them but before they brought them to the field office for processing. Plaintiffs argue that [d]eclining even to allow evidence on this issue would provide a blueprint for Defendants to evade this Courts order and the statute ECF No. 73 at 2. This Court agrees that is a risk. In its PI Order, the Court specifically found that for arrests made without a flight risk assessment, warrants issued after-the-fact do not bring the arrest within the color of law. ECF No. 73 at 5. Plaintiffs allege that is, in effect, what defendants are doing.

Furthermore, if these arrests are, in practice, happening before the field warrant is issued, it raises the question of whether ICE is impermissibly redefining "likelihood of escape" to find probable cause to detain until the warrant is obtained. Therefore, the Court will hear evidence about this alleged practice in order to determine, inter alia: (1) what is actually happening in the course of these so called field warrant arrests; (2) how pervasive this practice is; (3) whether the agency has trained and encouraged its agents to make arrests in this fashion following the Courts order; and (4) how these arrests are being documented. The Court has read and reviewed defendants position that these arrests, if they are happening, are not the appropriate subject of this hearing because, in their view, it would expand the scope of both the plaintiffs case and the Courts order certifying a provisional class and preliminary injunction order. ECF No. 73 at 5-11. The Court is not convinced, at least at this stage and without having heard the evidence or full argument, that the alleged field warrant arrests are so outside the scope of the complaint, the evidence adduced at the PI hearing, and the Court's preliminary rulings, that they are not the proper subject of this case and of a compliance order. By Judge R. Brooke Jackson on 3/2/2026. Text Only Entry (rbjlc9, ). (Entered: 03/02/2026)

Judge Brooke Jackson of Colorado said he'll hear evidence next week that the Department of Homeland Security is violating his preliminary injunction by improperly detaining people, then obtaining a warrant prior to transporting them. He agrees the tactic could be "a blueprint" for evading his order.

"Abolish ICE" is, very literally, the moderate position

I keep dwelling in this exchange and, if a judge ever said this to me, the next sentence out of my mouth would be "Permission to lie down, Your Honor?"

Jared Polis, Gov of Colorado, just pardoned Tina Peters (a 2020 election conspiracist who broke the law) at the demand of Trump

I’m shocked and sickened

It’s completely ridiculous and baffling that he’s allowed to make this request *as a candidate on the ballot*, and not even a candidate for the office he’s currently holding.

“Black voters are voting for Jasmine Crockett because she’s Black!”

Meanwhile in Michigan John James (also Black) has 0 Black support.

Zero.

Y’all don’t understand us at all and never try to.

They like Trump and want him to succeed at Project 2025

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

The idea that Black voters, whose lives and survival depends on knowing how best to pragmatically and effectively organize to oppose fascism, might have *more* information about how to address that US fascism and racism than white voters, never enters the conversation.

Also this crap only ever applies one way. The idea that it’s anti-democratic or insulting to voters to criticize a president only holds when we’re talking about delicate Republican snowflakes. I heard this exactly never about attacks on Biden or Obama.

So all of this is in a thread about a Claude tool someone built to link to NLRB opinions, and it's just such a massive misunderstanding of how law works.

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Tech bros have spent much of the decade stomping divots into their workforces — so of course they’d lack any concept whatsoever of solidarity.

Anything that starts with "we're not against the rule of law in principle, but" needs to be laughed at out of hand.

Suggesting people keep their powder dry defending The Pitt until this "both sides of ICE in the hospital" episode drops. My wife has spent the better part of the last year training nurses and doctors at their ERs and UCs how to handle ICE showing up and it's living nightmare stuff.

“There’s no way a guy who blew up apartment buildings and killed hundreds of his innocent countrymen to gain power could ever be even the slightest bit duplicitous”

How the fuck is anyone’s takeaway from the last several months “the economy is bad” and not “the government is building concentration camps and subjecting people to wildly inhumane and often homicidal conditions” ???? How can you serve voters if you’re not even able to say that with a full throat?

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew WASHINGTON—Exhausted from repeated efforts to explain the most basic aspect of political power, an aide to President Trump nevertheless began wearily explaining for the fifth time Friday why he couldn...

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

And 700% isn’t nearly enough, given the baseline odds at the moment.

Yeah. This.

Ds are not prepared for the moment. They're using our tax money to build concentration camps, Katherine. The same group of people who voted Trump into office in 2024 because of high prices are ALREADY not voting R in the midterms. How about focusing on the single issue indy voters who hate ICE?

No court has authority to prevent the report from being subpoenaed by congress and read into the congressional record, FWIW