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www.npr.org - Department of Health and Human Services is about to propose new rules to restrict youth gender-affirming care nationwide. It is already banned in 27 states, but the new rules will be nationwide. Let's hope the legal challenges will prevail.  

thefulcrum.us - This comparison of SCOTUS to the Reichsgericht is accurate. Our judicial crisis has led to an autocratic Potemkin Democracy, and I'm not sure how we're going to fix it. If you take a look back at the Supreme Court's actions both in Trump's first...

www.bbc.com - BBC Verify has analyzed over 70 videos of ICE attacking the communities, and they've summarized what they found in this 6 min 36 sec video. I just need to add that a recent Bellingcat investigation found the “1,000% increase of attacks against ICE"...

www.bellingcat.com - The Bellingcat Investigation Team has done a study on the extreme use of force tactics deployed by ICE in Illinois. The data that they have uncovered debunks the many lies being told by DHS.

www.courtlistener.com - Two more violent confrontations with ICE were just documented in yet another Notice of TRO Violations filed with Judge Ellis. These heavily-armed untrained Gestapo Goons think they are above the law and have immunity, so they are reacting with...

www.tmz.com - After being handcuffed and forced to the ground, video shows one of Trump's Gestapo Goons violently punch the man repeatedly in the face, then the agent grabs his neck and forces the man's face into the ground. Observers were shocked by the...

www.thedailybeast.com - The New York Times Editorial Board has an Autocracy Tracker article about how there are twelve categories of an autocracy, and Trump has completed all twelve. We're quickly losing our rights and our democracy is at stake. The NYT is behind a...

www.scrippsnews.com - Chicago residents have come up with a simple solution to alerting neighbors about ICE raids: they are assembling whistles and passing them out to the community. We need to do this in all of the towns around America where ICE has a presence. If you...

www.rawstory.com - According to a redacted ICE document (a link is in the article) "ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection." This means everyone must allow them to...

www.westernslopenow.com - In Colorado, the Durango Police Department received a report that one of the children in ICE custody may have been in distress and experiencing child abuse. Officers tried to conduct a welfare check and bring food, but the federal agents denied them...

aclu.org - Our First Amendment is the most sacred to me, because those freedoms are what allow us to keep all of the others from being taken away. Unfortunately, the courts and Trump have been ripping up the First Amendment in too many cases to name. We are in...

www.ted.com - Our nation is in great danger. There are 7 steps to The Authoritarian Playbook, and Trump has completed all of the steps. We are losing our rights at an astonishing rate, and I don't think people realize how much trouble we are in. Here's a 16...

www.lawdork.com - Chris Geidner has an excellent "Law Dork" blog on what just happened in the Supreme Court, the effort of DHS to protect Gregory Bovino, and about the indictment of six protesters at the Broadview ICE facility, including congressional candidate Kat...

www.oregonlive.com - Hours after US District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order regarding deployment of troops, they sent an "Advanced MP Squad" to help ICE. They opened fire on local police officers with pepper balls, and the judge is not happy....

www.theguardian.com - A Pentagon memo orders the National Guard in all 50 states and our territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers, and pepper spray. This is not what our troops signed up to do....

www.courtlistener.com - The 3-day bench trial by Federal Judge Karin Immergut starts today regarding deployment of National Guard troops. Docket #119 has the telephone number and instructions to listen in. Here's a bookmark for the complete court docket.  

www.chron.com - Texas Supreme Court has revised the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct to clarify that judges who refuse to perform a wedding ceremony "on a sincerely held religious belief" do not violate the state's rules on judicial impartiality. Judges who decline...

time.com - Federal agents have “Supremacy Clause immunity” which protects federal officers from state criminal prosecution when they are carrying out their official duties under federal law, provided their actions were "necessary and proper." That means they...

apnews.com - The border patrol chief must produce all use-of-force reports from agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz since September 2nd. The judge said, “My role is not to tell you that you can or cannot enforce validly passed laws by Congress. … My role...

www.washingtonexaminer.com - In his efforts to start a civil war that justifies his use of the Insurrection Act, this morning he told troops in Japan that "more than National Guard was needed" for his deportation efforts. Over the weekend, Trump and Noem wanted the leaders of...

www.courtlistener.com - In filing (docket #142) of CHC et al. v. Noem et al. they are asking the court to modify the TRO to prohibit the use of any tear gas until their motion on a preliminary injunction is heard. They say: "Plaintiffs suspect Defendants are inciting...

www.rawstory.com - Authoritarian Trump has sent notice to HHS federal workers that they must produce evidence that they “clearly and demonstrably support implementation” of his agenda. All of our federal agencies are being forced to be MAGA and kneel to the orange...

theraven.substack.com - All three branches of our government have failed and been taken over by right-wing extremists. Our executive branch is a joke with authoritarian Trump at the helm. Our legislative branch is so dysfunctional they can't even pass a budget to keep the...

www.alternet.org - Our elections are controlled by the states, but Heather Honey of the DHS "election integrity" team suggested Trump has “some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” and that by using an investigation as a pretext, “we can take these other...

www.courtlistener.com - Chicago Headline Club v. Noem - Another Notice of Violations of TRO which shows how DHS completely fabricated a story to justify their use of violence against peaceful protestors (paragraph 7). The attorneys bring some damning receipts against...