Trump Kills Key Weapons Shipments to Ukraine as Putin Unleashes Hell
In the month of June, the United States was projecting to gain over 100,000 jobs but has instead lost 30,000. This is what “winning” looks like when you put a fraudulent convicted felon and his cult in office.
— Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjoJXeGj/ I cannot get over the horror being perpetuated by the USA and Israel. It’s insane
— Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
I had to read this twice to believe it…Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-…
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Have to wonder, in looking at this, does Bully Trump, who is truly not only ugly but gross EVER have self-reflection or look in a mirror
MAGA is a movement by jerks, for jerks
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Judge Blocks ICE Barbie’s ‘Unlawful’ Deportation Move Just Days After It’s Announced
The global world, including China, moving ahead with electric cars. Only Old Kook Trump wants to go backwards
@thespencerhakimian.bsky.social
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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National Guard Troops Sent To California By Trump Are Just Out There Doing Drug Busts (Trump wants USA to be a police state)
Is the Republican Party a Chinese Communist Conspiracy? The Senate GOP just voted to destroy the economies of their own districts and hand 21st century industry to a foreign adversary.
Trump Justice Department files lawsuit to protect the secrets of sex predators (not a surprise)
Every single argument against this law boiled down to certain people wanting to preserve an unethical religious tradition even at the expense of stopping child sexual abuse. That’s what you should be thinking every time a Catholic official speaks out against this law. They’re more interested in preserving a ritual than protecting children.
‘This Is Fascism’: Trump Sparks Fury After Calling to Deport U.S. Citizens
A press secretary who knowingly lies every day to the American people about obvious and irrefutable facts.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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More accusations fly at Second Baptist Houston
I’m no fan of Elon Musk. But Trump’s threat to deport him is sickening
Eon Musk is an utterly deplorable human being. He has unashamedly flashed an apparent Nazi salute; encouraged rightwing extremists in Germany and elsewhere; falsely claimed there is a “genocide” in South Africa against white farmers; callously celebrated the dismantling of USAID, whose shuttering will lead to the deaths of millions, according to a study published in the Lancet this week; and increased misinformation and empowered extremists on his Twitter/X platform while advancing his sham “I am a free speech absolutist” claims. And so much more.
So the news that Donald Trump “will take a look” at deporting his billionaire former “first buddy” Musk has many smirking and shrugging: “Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”
I like a good comeuppance, but this doesn’t please me at all. It sends a chill down the spine. It is the use of law enforcement agencies as a tool to chill debate, to silence disagreement and dissent, and to punish political opposition. Democracy is dimming fast in the United States, but threats to deport US citizens for disagreeing with the governing administration’s policies are the domain of authoritarian regimes such as Belarus or Cameroon.
SNAP!😳
— RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍 (@riolindamex.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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He’s building death camps filled with our friends and neighbors, using a domestic terror force of white supremacist kidnappers.
— A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This APA remedy provides a roadmap that current and future plaintiffs challenging Trump’s unconstitutional executive actions could and should take, even while also filing motions for class action certification before their trial courts. If individual plaintiffs add to their complaints prayers for relief to set aside unconstitutional executive action, those prayers, if granted, can and should provide the practical equivalent of the universal injunctions that the CASA Court refused to authorize.
The CASA Court’s ruling left thirty days before its partial stays would take effect. While those thirty days are transpiring, Trump Administration officials will need to take a series of steps to implement Section 3 of the birthright citizenship executive order, which authorizes and directs a series of agency actions. Once those agency heads take the necessary final actions to implement the executive order, the current plaintiffs can file APA actions under § 706(2) in federal district court to set those actions aside on a nationwide basis as “not in accordance with law.”
With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
The U.S. Attack on Iran Was Unconstitutional
It should be no surprise that this was not the intent of the Constitution’s Framers. It is difficult to read their words without agreeing with Abraham Lincoln. He said:
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, quoting Justice Robert Jackson in Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981), shared Lincoln’s belief that the Framers rejected the English model. Writing for the Court, he said: “The example of such unlimited executive power that must have most impressed the forefathers was the prerogative exercised by George III, and the description of its evils in the Declaration of Independence leads me to doubt that they were creating their new Executive in his image.”…
For the purposes of argument, assume that the threat posed to the United States by inaction would have been greater than the risks incurred by the attack. If so, the Constitution assigned that judgment to Congress. It empowers Congress, not the President, to declare war. The functional advantages of executive action—unity, decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch, famously detailed by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 70—argue for sole presidential power only to respond to a sudden or imminent attack. The Framers intended that the President be permitted to act alone only in an emergency, where Congress has no time to act. But no emergency existed here. The war had been fought for eight days before the United States attacked Iran, during which the Executive collaborated constantly with Israel, which had claimed for years that Iran was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon (even when the U.S. intelligence community did not share that assessment, as continues to be the case). Congress clearly had time to act had its approval been sought.
Conservatives on the Supreme Court Try to Erase Gay People in Mahmoud v. Taylor Decision
To put it simply, conservative religious beliefs trump everything else in the majority’s reasoning. As several commentators have pointed out, this could lead to complete anarchy. Should Mormons and Muslims be able to opt out of readings that involve drinking alcohol? Should people who belong to racist religious sects be allowed to opt out of learning about slavery? What if they’re reading a book about a woman president and that offends the sexist fundamentalists in various faiths? It’s all fucking ridiculous, and to avoid a total clusterfuck of dickhead parents allowing their prejudices to dictate the curriculum, most schools will just avoid anything but the most anodyne shit. You might wonder why the hell don’t the kids just go to religious schools, ah, but Alito says that because the families are too poor to afford that, it’s on the rest of us to affirm their crazy.
Students can learn shit in school that they don’t agree with. Parents have a right to teach their ignorance to their kids. Alito’s just worried the kids will think the ignorant parents are fucked in the head like him and that their religious development is worthless. Yet Alito is saying that the parents’ religion takes precedence over everyone else’s right to not have religion imposed on them.
It’s something that Justice Sonia Sotomayor states pretty fucking clearly in her dissent. She quotes the First Amendment and emphasizes that “prohibit” is the key word: “The Clause prohibits the government from compelling individuals, whether directly or indirectly, to give up or violate their religious beliefs.” In other words, the government can’t force you to believe a certain way. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn shit.
Sotomayor remarks that the majority’s decision fails “to accept and account for a fundamental truth: LGBTQ people exist. They are part of virtually every community and workplace of any appreciable size. Eliminating books depicting LGBTQ individuals as happily accepted by their families will not eliminate student exposure to that concept. Nor does the Free Exercise Clause require the government to alter its programs to insulate students from that ‘message.’” Right. Your stupid fucking parents and your dumbass church can teach you, say, all the creationism you want. But get that ludicrous shit out of the public school science classroom.
This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
— Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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