David Noll
@david.noll.org
Vigilante Nation: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy: https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
You probably don't mean to say "begs the question."
Updates on the meritocracy: https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
You probably don't mean to say "begs the question."
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
· Aug 12
How did we end up in a world where ICE agents are indistinguishable from the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol on January 6?
VIGILANTE NATION tells the story of the insidious state laws behind MAGA's return to power, and it's out in paperback today.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigila...
VIGILANTE NATION tells the story of the insidious state laws behind MAGA's return to power, and it's out in paperback today.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigila...
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However lawless you think the immigration agencies have become, it's worse than you think.
Judges have ruled against ICE's new mandatory detention policy by a margin of 308-14. They have also held that a nationwide class is eligible for bond hearings. Yet ICE continues to enact the policy.
Judges have ruled against ICE's new mandatory detention policy by a margin of 308-14. They have also held that a nationwide class is eligible for bond hearings. Yet ICE continues to enact the policy.
I have a piece on @lpeblog.bsky.social detailing how ICE & immigration judges are at war against federal courts.
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...
lpeproject.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 AM
However lawless you think the immigration agencies have become, it's worse than you think.
Judges have ruled against ICE's new mandatory detention policy by a margin of 308-14. They have also held that a nationwide class is eligible for bond hearings. Yet ICE continues to enact the policy.
Judges have ruled against ICE's new mandatory detention policy by a margin of 308-14. They have also held that a nationwide class is eligible for bond hearings. Yet ICE continues to enact the policy.
I don't want to suggest that there's a coherent strategy at work, but one thing going on with the Greenland fiasco is Trump recognizing his power of unilateral action. We used to think that blowing up NATO would require congressional action; now, Trump is realizing he can post his way to it.
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I don't want to suggest that there's a coherent strategy at work, but one thing going on with the Greenland fiasco is Trump recognizing his power of unilateral action. We used to think that blowing up NATO would require congressional action; now, Trump is realizing he can post his way to it.
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lol wow theonion.com/nation-yearn...
Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle
WASHINGTON—Expressing deep fondness for those long-gone halcyon days, the U.S. population collectively yearned Tuesday for the relative calm of the “president is a giant pedophile” news cycle. “It was...
theonion.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:19 PM
lol wow theonion.com/nation-yearn...
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Everyone keeps saying "No one is coming to save us!" but I think it's a distinct possibility that whoever did this is coming to save us.
March 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Everyone keeps saying "No one is coming to save us!" but I think it's a distinct possibility that whoever did this is coming to save us.
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
This order is a real doozy:
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
January 20, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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A year ago today, victims of Jan. 6 rioters began receiving automatic notifications that the people who assaulted them were being freed from prison.
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM
A year ago today, victims of Jan. 6 rioters began receiving automatic notifications that the people who assaulted them were being freed from prison.
If there's one thing SCOTUS experts have been consistently wrong about, it's how low the bottom is.
It would be grimly funny if this were the case
But hey, maybe the reason the ruling didn't drop today is that, post Greenland threats, they've decided to rewrite it to give Trump freedom there while overturning the liberation day stuff. I wouldn't put it past these fuckers
January 20, 2026 at 11:17 PM
If there's one thing SCOTUS experts have been consistently wrong about, it's how low the bottom is.
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key detail most US media isn't reporting:
"No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."
"No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM
key detail most US media isn't reporting:
"No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."
"No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."
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the idea that DHS can fix this through More Posting is very revealing
Trump is clearly frustrated by DHS’s propaganda campaign in Minnesota and thinks he can do better
January 20, 2026 at 4:39 PM
the idea that DHS can fix this through More Posting is very revealing
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look how easy this is
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
look how easy this is
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this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 AM
thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017
I'm rereading Trump's 2016 campaign announcement speech for class this week and it contains one of the funniest lines I have ever seen.
January 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I'm rereading Trump's 2016 campaign announcement speech for class this week and it contains one of the funniest lines I have ever seen.
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We can put all of these guys in prison if we have the will to power
Sen. Markwayne Mullin bought up to $50K each in Raytheon stock (RTX) & Chevron (CVX) just days before the U.S. strike on Venezuela—
Mullin sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee — I’m sure it’s just a coincidence..
Mullin sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee — I’m sure it’s just a coincidence..
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
We can put all of these guys in prison if we have the will to power
Common Good Constitutionalism may be batting zero at the Supreme Court, but someone took it seriously.
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Common Good Constitutionalism may be batting zero at the Supreme Court, but someone took it seriously.
Not trying to be trollish, but I'll take the under. The odds of this dithering, addled fool keeping an electoral coalition together as he pushes the nation into war, economic crisis, and the most serious federal/state conflict since the Civil Rights Movement don't seem particularly good to me.
Guys, we still have three more years and a day of Trump.
January 19, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Not trying to be trollish, but I'll take the under. The odds of this dithering, addled fool keeping an electoral coalition together as he pushes the nation into war, economic crisis, and the most serious federal/state conflict since the Civil Rights Movement don't seem particularly good to me.
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these are out of control thugs and every single thing they say is a lie
that they are lying should be the default presumption of the press, the courts, and the general public
that they are lying should be the default presumption of the press, the courts, and the general public
BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
January 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM
these are out of control thugs and every single thing they say is a lie
that they are lying should be the default presumption of the press, the courts, and the general public
that they are lying should be the default presumption of the press, the courts, and the general public
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Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
huh. turns out trump derangement syndrome is real.
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
huh. turns out trump derangement syndrome is real.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Another thing about this is that the administration would be picking a fight with one of, if not the, most effective political communicators in the Democratic Party.
I am not saying Trump def doesn’t invade nyc this term I’m just saying it’s a lot larger than Minneapolis / St. Paul and can you imagine what it would look like in just one borough of New York, if THIS is the civilian response in the twin cities
January 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Another thing about this is that the administration would be picking a fight with one of, if not the, most effective political communicators in the Democratic Party.
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We made a mistake in assigning domestic law enforcement to a department created to prosecute the global war on terror. The moderate position should be to abolish ICE and assign immigration enforcement to a thoroughly reconstituted, nonpartisan Justice Department.
This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.
January 18, 2026 at 9:13 PM
We made a mistake in assigning domestic law enforcement to a department created to prosecute the global war on terror. The moderate position should be to abolish ICE and assign immigration enforcement to a thoroughly reconstituted, nonpartisan Justice Department.
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this is a great frame for how to think about vote suppression efforts
The risk of malfeasance in the November election is real, and serious. But the Trump administration doesn't have a magic wand.
It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.
It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
this is a great frame for how to think about vote suppression efforts