NYT piece asks 35 #legal scholars about the most #lawless things #Trump has done in his first 100 days.
Spoiler, there are a lot.
#law #ConstitutionalCrisis #POTUS #felon47
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.BRGY.Cbz0hJdXsWxX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p
So it turns out that #republicans are the ones canceling Christmas:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-tariffs-dolls-comment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D08.IErv.IE_yFvsuVUSO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #grinch #tariffs #christmas #scrooge #trump #uspol #giftarticle
#ElonMusk’s Most Alarming #Power Grab
Can anyone stop his #space-based #internet?
by Ross Andersen
When #Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype #satellites into a rocket’s nose cone 6yrs ago, there were <2k functional satellites in Earth’s #orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, & the years since, Musk’s company, #SpaceX, kept launching them. >7k of his satellites now surround #Earth like a cloud of gnats.
#tech
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/starlink-elon-musk-space-internet/682705/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxS9Y60abe3-ea5P_I6HWcuE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
We’re About to Find Out What #MassDeportation Really Looks Like
The #Trump admin’s campaign to remove millions of people from the #US could soon be supercharged by #Congress.
–Nick Miroff
“#Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE w/ a colossal #funding increase”
It will fund the “social & demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”
#law #StateTerror #DualState #Constitution
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/ice-deportation-funding-increase/682480/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQaHREZu2dHnmR9IBjIsyyU
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face govt #retribution, they no longer live in a full #democracy.
“By that measure, #America has crossed the line into competitive #authoritarianism. The #Trump administration’s #WeaponizationOfGovernment agencies & flurry of punitive actions against critics has raised the cost of opposition for a wide range of Americans.”
#law #USpol #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.FdrP.pvuxCrXOS6Fj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
FYI this is some kerazy f⁕⚠︎ed up shit
#TulsiGabbard #fires leaders of #intelligence group that wrote #Venezuela assessment
[because, facts]
The director of national intelligence [#DNI] fired top officials weeks after their group authored an assessment contradicting #Trump’s #legal rationale for #deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://wapo.st/4kjboU8
#Trump says he could bring back #KilmarAbregoGarcia, an #immigrant his admin wrongly deported to the infamous #CECOT prison in #ElSalvador. But he won’t, despite #SCOTUS’ order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who was deported unlawfully in the first place.
by Adam Serwer
#law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-abrego-garcia-smears/682773/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXUvK2gAhWVb3xi8qi5xPpA
The #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
https://wapo.st/4dQh5Hm
#Trump solicited the damn thing, so—not a freaking gift at all.
The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New #AirForceOne
#Qatar had been trying to sell off a luxury jet for years, with no luck. Then Trump’s team set its sights on it.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #emoluments #corruption #NationalSecurity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-jet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.kIs0.LGc-fUJ-F_4u&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How #Trump Ofcls Were Sent Scrambling to Cover Their Asses in the #KilmarAbregoGarcia Case
A Maryland man’s deportation to #ElSalvador set off a fierce debate among ofcls of 3 cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.
The Trump admin had deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.
#law #immigration #Rendition
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
When Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furor erupted over reports that she had once made $100k from a $1k investment in cattle futures. Even though it had happened a dozen years before her husband became president, it became a scandal that lasted weeks & forced the White House to initiate a review.
#Trump #law #emoluments #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.MV12.FMyyoC3z_EI_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Uncle Sam’s new message to young #BlackAmericans: I don’t want you
Opinion by Phillip E. Thompson, a fmr judge advocate in the Marine Corps & lawyer in Virginia.
“I am a proud Marine #veteran w/deep ties to #military service. My wife served in the #AirForce, my father fought with the #Marines in WWII, & my grandfather served in the #Army in WWI.
#USpol #hate #discrimination #bigotry #racism #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/3Hd4MZq
#Trump Relishes #Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
by Peter Baker
When Trump first sought to stage a #military parade in Washington, a 4-star general argued against it, telling him that “it’s what dictators do.” Trump was unbothered by the comparison, & so on Sat tanks will roll down the streets of the nation’s capital for the first time in decades.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #ForeignPolicy #authoritarianism #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-military-parade-israel-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.h7ef.Jfy0NJRp1gFf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#RFKJr Is Barely Even Pretending Anymor
America’s #AntiVaccine era is truly beginning.
#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #medicine #science #PublicHealth #policy #regulations #law #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/cdc-acip-anti-vaccine-rfk/683156/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxaLwqNRbI7I4IbkkdBen8-0
The Tyrant Test
A leader who uses #military force to #suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
By Adam Serwer
“For as long as I’ve been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition. This was a staple of Cold War presidential rhetoric, & it survived long into the War on Terror era.”
#authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-military-force-protests/683198/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxeJVpyAVTc6jhJwDEd7rPvQ
When The #Military Comes To American Soil
By Joshua Braver
#Domestic deployment of active-duty US military, as is now taking place in #LosAngeles, is both rare & perilous. Not since the 1992 riots in that same city has the country seen such a use of the armed services. But that was a one-off. The more relevant, & worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively patrolled US soil on 8 separate occasions.
#law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/prior-domestic-deployments/683186/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxRbJ5YAKs0rd5aF2tLxN-X0
Bizarre
They Asked an #AI #Chatbot Questions.
The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
#GenerativeAI #chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes & endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the #technology can deeply distort reality.
Mr. Torres, 42, an accountant in Manhattan, started using #ChatGPT last year to make financial spreadsheets & to get legal advice.
#MediaLiteracy #tech #health #PublicHealth #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.q54v.5I9Hb7nYzpyW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Even as #Trump suggested that he was open to negotiations, he had already made up his mind.
Trump had insisted for months that he wanted the ultimate deal with #Iran, one that would put a definitive end to the country’s ability to produce a #nuclear weapon. As late as Thursday, he’d suggested that Iran’s leaders would have up to two more weeks to negotiate. But at that point, he had already made up his mind: The #UnitedStates was going to #bomb Iran.
#GiftArticle
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-israel-iran-bomb/683275/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxTG8wWZXaspmy_zB-jsesQA
‘It Felt Like Kidnapping,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says in First Interview Since Release
The #Columbia graduate & pro-#Palestinian #activist returned to New York after more than three months in #detention. The #Trump administration is still seeking to deport him.
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-interview-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.08iZ.quUx5RwW5FJ5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#WTAF???
A #WhiteNationalist Wrote a #Law School Paper Promoting #Racist Views.
It Won Him an #Award.
The #UniversityOfFlorida student won an #academic #honor after he argued in a paper that the #Constitution applies only to #WhitePeople. From there, the situation spiraled.
Because of course.
The star witness against #KilmarAbregoGarcía was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time #felon who has been released early from federal #prison to a halfway house in exchange for his *cooperation* in the case.
For months, #ElonMusk’s U.S. #DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said were guiding his hunt for waste. Now that #Musk has stepped away from his government role, some of that data could be valuable in another way — by giving the world’s richest man a competitive advantage over his rivals in the private sector.
#Trump #law #corruption #broligarchy
https://wapo.st/44yQIS6
FUCK NO
#Trump makes no secret of his desire to be added to #MountRushmore.
During his first term, Trump told [dog killer] #KristiNoem —then a US rep from #SouthDakota, now Trump’s Secy of DHS—that his “dream” was to be on Mount Rushmore. She later gave Trump a model w/ his…[ugly mug] on it.
[if anything, Trump should get an asterisk on the list of POTUS, like Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens. Theirs for steroids, Trump’s for American mass hysteria].
🤣…Though #Trump appears to support #AI, that does not mean AI supports him….
To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of 5 leading AI models — #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT; #Anthropic’s #Claude; X/ #xAI’s #Grok; #Google’s #Gemini; & #Perplexity — to verify Trump’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions.…
AI discredited ALL the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking him with startling accuracy & objective rigor.
