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From Josh Kovensky at #TalkingPointsMemo:
"... I trawled through court filings and listened to judges and attorneys pick over the legal wreckage left by the removals. What emerged was a clear and deeply alarming picture: The Trump administration commenced orchestrating the removals long before Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, and did so in a way that seems to have been designed to evade judicial oversight ..."
#uspol #deportations #trump #gop https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the-alien-enemies-act-deportations-were-orchestrated-to-keep-the-courts-unaware
Via #TalkingPointsMemo @ 5:31pm ET on Mar 07, 2025
The #Trump #WhiteHouse has taken its attempt to seize direct control over the entire #ExecutiveBranch to a new level and laid out a startling legal rationale for the move in a previously unreported email obtained by #TPM. If successful, Trump would be making a dramatic end run around the #Senate’s #AdviceAndConsent power for certain appointed positions.
#StopDictatorDon
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate
Donald Trump Personally Thanks John Roberts For Keeping Him Out Of Jail: ‘I Won’t Forget It’
#trump #scotus #JohnRoberts #TPM #TalkingPointsMemo
March 5, 2025
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/donald-trump-personally-thanks-john-roberts-for-keeping-him-out-of-jail-i-wont-forget-it
I don't agree with Josh Marshall all of the time, but he's usually level-headed and pragmatic about whatever is happening. His newsletter today reflects what we're seeing with polls and other indicators: most Americans don't agree with what Musk and Trump are doing, and even MAGAts are upset. We're starting to see cracks in the congressional GOP ranks - as much as i despise them for allowing things to get this far, we need them to fight back. And since it looks like even average Americans and corporate media are "joining the battle" (as Marshall writes), I am feeling a little more hopeful today. We're still at the start of a long slog, absolutely, and nothing is definite, but I have to believe once Musk/Trump's actions are made clear to the average American (i.e., they can't ignore it by only watching Fox), things are going to get very interesting, volatile, and possibly violent. Anyway, worth a read!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/inflection-the-backlash-begins-as-elon-goes-wild
I saw this post on #TalkingPointsMemo today that I wanted to share:
You are made, fundamentally, from the good.
With this knowledge, you never march alone.
You are the breaking news of the century.
You are the good who has come forward
Through it all, even if so many days
Feel otherwise.
All in service to a simple idea:
That we can make a house called tomorrow.
What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,
The full poem is here: https://poets.org/poem/house-called-tomorrow
America, this is what you elected. Great job.
Nixon wasn't even this malignant.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/the-buck-stops-with-women-and-minorities
@mttaggart Let's not forget Dem Whitehouse, who may vote to confirm RFK Jr. due to their 'long friendship'.
Rhode Island may want to reconsider the someone whose unrepentant 'friend' is responsible for the deaths of 83 people on Samoa, many of them children.
"Ask your local pediatrician if if Sheldon Whitehouse is right for you"
Phone: (202) 224-2921
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dems-worry-sen-whitehouse-considering-vote-for-rfk-jr
#SheldonWhitehouse
#RFKJrNomination
#samoa_measles_outbreak
#Measles
#TalkingPointsMemo
Earlier administrations had at least a thin veneer of following norms—the First Felon's inauguration is now an open bar for criminals—it’s all pay-to-play, baby!
If Tim Cook doesn’t want tariffs on his iPhones, he’d better pony up cash for the First Felon’s ‘library’ fund.
The First Felon will take in several billion dollars in donations during his ‘presidency’—they’re going to make post-Soviet Russia look like a church lady bake sale.
After the two violent incidents ringing in the new year, the First Felon Elect wasted no time in getting facts wrong - it's more important that he feel validated.
But this was also under-reported, the the veteran who took his own life outside a trump property left a violent anti-Democratic manifesto that's not being reported on, because apparently, only scary brown people carry out terrorist attacks.
Good stuff from Josh Marshall @ TPM - Keep it context and keep your eyes open.
I'm sharing this Josh Marshall Editorial. Any Dem not on board with this pardon can fuck right off and join the republicans.
Any republicans having a problem with this pardon can join weak Dems in fucking right off - they're bad faith actors who have not been honest in the past 9 years (if ever).
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-pardon/sharetoken/1d2d8e82-e9ef-4cd4-85b9-80717d5d43b7
I listened to this podcast today: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the-josh-marshall-podcast/ep-345-the-case-for-optimism/
I always enjoy these because while Josh Marshall is a realist, he also talks about how optimism as a way of life rather than some sort of pollyannish/Mary Baker Eddy, "I'm just going to be positive and everything will be great" mentality, but rather it raises the possibilities for better outcomes.
It's also better for your mental health—we all have to pull together to win this.
#USPol #TalkingPointsMemo #Journalism
Talking Points Memo is collecting campaign texts. If you want to help their analysis, this is what they're looking for:
"I’m particularly interested in ones that are putting nuggets of news in front of you to, in theory, drive your vote for one or the other candidate. If you’re getting these and haven’t requested they stop, I’m very interested to see them."
@GottaLaff I've given up on any media whose stakeholders aren't the American people.
These are my go to's:
#TalkingPointsMemo
#ChicagoSunTimes
#MotherJones
#TheGuardian
#AssociatedPress
This should be VP Harris during the entire debate—if Don the Con even shows up...
He's being walked like a dog and doesn't even realize it.
lestatdelc of (www.thirdwave-design.com) posted this on the TalkingPointsMemo comment section and I have to share....
Via #JoshMarshall of #TalkingPointsMemo
Sitting on a small but measurable lead for most of the last year has allowed #DonaldTrump to mostly coast all year w his standard road show. We've already seen evidence he no longer has the #stamina, fluidity or focus for a tougher kind of race.
Not sure if this is a move by Pelosi that is less about having Biden step down and Dems go at it, or if this is the form of handing over the top of the ticket to Kamala to give it some semblance of not being a backroom deal:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pelosi-going-full-thunderdome
But I do want to say, if Biden does decide to step down, I hope he's given the space and dignity to do so.
#TalkingPointsMemo
#Pelosi
#PresidentBiden
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