JUST IN: With disclosures for a potential vindictive prosecution motion due to the defense on Monday, feds (Pirro) drop criminal case against Army vet who said he burned flag in park to protest Trump pledge to prosecute flagburners. No explanation. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
BOASBERG: “.. the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell ..
“.. the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President ..”
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Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Lit it on fire, then left.
@axios.com
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(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
New, at Can We Still Govern?: Christian Gläßel and
@ascharpf.bsky.social have studied the formation of secret police in other countries. They explain the parallels with Trump's immigration enforcement.
The key factor is career incentives not ideology. 🧵
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MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732.
Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers.
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The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
The key question:
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
That's weird, because Republicans keep telling us that paperwork is the ONLY thing that makes you American. Isn't that their whole rationale for passing a law that requires "documentary proof of United States citizenship" in order to vote?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Russia is winning so much that in the fifth year of its full-scale invasion, Ukraine is supplying its weapons to the U.S. and the Gulf states.
Finds that @aclu.org showed 23 instances of unconstitutional stops from mid-Dec to mid-Jan, including 11 people who were unconstitutionally arrested. But petitioners can’t show it will happen again, so can’t show standing or irreparable harm, esp in light of drawdown of Operation Metro Surge.
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BREAKING: Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act.
Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.
New, at Law Dork:
This…
"We can’t be expected to raise our eyes to the shining beacon of our noble ideals if we can’t see through the acrid smoke of our leaders’ intemperate, incontinent, infantilizing verbiage."
-- WSJ op-ed on Trump's inability to state a coherent case for the Iran war
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So. Ukraine is in year four of a war that it should have lost in the first week.
Keep that in mind when Republicans tell you how quickly Iran will fall.
one of the people taken by ice after returning on a flight to the u.s. was missing for more than 30 hours before their phone’s location pinged at the broadview ice jail late friday.
ice repeatedly denied to electeds and officers that the six people were detained at the jail.
I put together multiple clips from @badfoxgraphics.bsky.social and @acyn.bsky.social n surrounding Fox News' use of an older clip that was supposed to be from Saturday March 7, 2026 of the dignified transfer of fallen service members. The network has since apologized.
Had to doublecheck the date on this
To disperse looters during 2020 unrest, Des Moines police officer, a “less-lethal munitions expert” who is in “fear for his life,” rides around in a Bearcat shooting people without warning or command. People like this plaintiff, who wasn’t rioting or looting and who suffered a broken finger. Eighth Circuit: Because the officer didn’t intend to arrest her, there’s no Fourth Amendment claim, and, because he didn’t intend to harm her, there is no Fourteenth Amendment claim.
i'm on top of @shortcircuitij.bsky.social right as it comes out this weeks and oh boy, just look at this shit
"Corruption looks less like an exception and more like the rule"
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
Once the review of an entry is complete and any manual duty calculations completed (see paragraph 18 above), it takes an IS or ES approximately 5 minutes to process an individual refund, including amending, liquidating and certifying the refund for each entry. The refund processing for the 53,173,939 entries with IEEPA duties will require 4,431,161 man hours for CBP to complete.
At 5 minutes per refund, it will take 506 years of staff time to resolve this.
By opening up a new theatre, Trump is making an attack on Taiwan more likely. Trump's little Iran adventure is accelerating the drawdown of existing weapons stockpiles, reducing the resources available for a Taiwan emergency.
NOEM: I would disagree with the judge
CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?
NOEM: A what?
CROCKETT: A law degree
NOEM: No I do no-
CROCKETT: Okay
I'll say there are very few universes in which this would be a remotely appropriate question. But Kristi and Corey have created that universe. It's their love child.
Kamlager-Dove: During you tenure at DHS, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?
Noem: I am shocked we are peddling tabloid garbage.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
