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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

hey so I know this is T&P but DHS doesn't have near the same authorities as DoD has with reprogramming, and also the DoD version of this is still illegal as shit even with those authorities

Whatever dog killer barbie is cooking up is gonna just be an outright money grab

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 1d

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting trib.al/VhtWlMr

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting

Homeland Security is taking similar steps after the Pentagon announced it would move “unobligated” funds to cover Oct. 15 pay.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

super easy to find """innovative solutions""" when you just ignore federal law and what Article I says

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h

lmfao

people are gonna lose their minds over this, but reminder that grandpa just says things

they transferred unobligated FY25 RDT&E funds into nonexistent FY26 MILPERS account in direct violation of the Constitution, that's bad enough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 10m

This is all a blatant violation of Article I of the Constitution.

Trump’s troop pay move is a ‘temporary fix,’ Johnson says

A Pentagon funding shift covered Wednesday's active-duty paychecks. But another threat looms if the shutdown continues to Oct. 31.

www.politico.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

KBJ is doing her best to explain HOW LAW WORKS to Brett and Amy but those two have long decided not to care about that.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1h

"stare decisis is only for suckers when we say so!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 3h

Just let this sink in:

A county of almost 10 million people declares a state of emergency because of the behavior of the federal state! 🤯

This will become more and more the reality under Trump 2.0, in which a militarized federal state occupies more and more cities (with often militarized police).

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 13h

The people who accused Obama of rounding them up and putting them in concentration camps now get to LARP their dark fictions into reality—with someone else getting locked up by jack-booted thugs

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h

"unprecedented restructuring", wake up, guys, a new newspeak euphemism for the liquidation of article I powers just dropped

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15h

A common pattern I hear again and again, is "Most people in the USA want [good thing]!"

Sure! That would be great! If we hadn't intentionally designed a system of government to give outsized political power to the subset of US white voters that consistently and repeatedly want "[bad thing]."

Oops!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 20h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Alaska House District 20 Democrats @alaskahd20dems.bsky.social · 16h

Circled is a teargas canister thrown by Donald Trump’s thugs flying towards a family as they flee with their baby from ICE’s violent escalation in Chicago.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20h

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 21h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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