🚨2-1 panel of the 9th Circuit (2 Trump vs 1 Clinton appointee) permits Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland.

The majority opinion finds that Trump properly considered the situation from June through September, and declares the ICE protests disruptive enough to call out the Guard.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

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Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

Timelapse of Chicago’s No Kings rally. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me

unfriendly fire

"Vought was unsatisfied. What would be the consequences, he asked, of a much larger reduction [to foreign aid]? A career official answered: Less humanitarian aid would mean more people would die. “You could say that about any of these cuts,” Vought replied." -- www.propublica.org/article/russ...

"The tech titan said he has to pay hundreds of off-duty police officers to patrol the convention area during Salesforce events."

We need more police, but law enforcement is not the job of the National Guard. Come on Benioff, learn before you speak.

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Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.