“Two billion is a staggering sum to make the exceptional feel routine. The money is the smaller half of the bill. The larger half is the line moved further every month, until soldiers standing watch over an American city stop looking as shocking as it is.”

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent admitted, ON VIDEO, that he had no legal justification to keep questioning a U.S. citizen about his immigration status… But continued harassing him anyway, while illegally detaining him… in Eagle, Idaho. In the video, mask ICE agents approach a construction site. One masked agent orders a man to put down the pole he’s carrying, so he can question him… while another agent walks up to a man who is setting concrete. The man setting concrete tells the agent he isn’t going to talk to him because he’s working. The agent ignores him and says… “Where were you born? We are looking for someone.” The man tells him he doesn’t care who they’re looking for… He’s working. Instead of leaving him alone, the agent gets in his way, and demands his identification. The man says he doesn’t have an ID on him… So, the agent demands his name. The man tells him he’s a legal U.S. citizen, and that’s all he needs to tell him. The agent ignores that, and keeps harassing him with… Where were you born? Where are you from? The United States? The U.S. citizens keeps trying to tell the agent he needs to work before the concrete is sets, and tries to walk away. But the agent keeps following and blocking the U.S. citizen until he finally tells the agent to get off of him, and demands the agent’s name and badge number. The agent responds… “I’m asking YOU the questions.” Then, another agent says, “Let’s go.” And the agent finally walks away, saying… “Okay, that’s fine. HE’S NOT OUR GUY ANYWAY.” THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU KEEP HARASSING HIM?! ICE cannot just stop or detain someone because they want to know where they were born. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable seizures, and ICE agents need reasonable suspicion to detain someone for immigration questioning. And if this was just a “voluntary conversation,” the man was free to walk away. Instead, the agent followed him, blocked him from working, repeatedly demanded his identity and birthplace, and continued confronting him AFTER he tried to walk away. And that should piss everyone off. Because this wasn’t about finding the person they were looking for… The agent admitted that he KNEW the man wasn’t their guy. But that didn’t stop the armed federal agent from following and harassing a U.S. citizen. And it’s exactly how constitutional rights disappear… one “small” violation at a time… until we’re expected to accept the government treating our rights like they’re optional.

Thune had no problem calling Platner a “misogynist Nazi,” but a guy allegedly beating his wife and breaking a toddler’s collarbone after two other women have said he’s an abuser, too, is just a “family matter” if you’re in the right party

“It’s no time to relax, and it’s no time to panic. Ron Brownstein’s Casablanca reference made me think of World War II, which in turn reminded me of the famous British World War II poster: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” Good advice then, good advice now.”

This East German style collection of dossiers on critics of the mass deportation regime will be, I guess, funded for an additional few months by the bipartisan CR. Maybe Democrats could insist on a provision prohibiting this crap rather than hastening to fund it? Too much to ask?

Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."

NEW: The New Mexico attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit accusing top DOJ officials of "stonewalling" a state criminal investigation into the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Story: Complaint:

"Miller, on the other hand, says he’s determined to stay in the race. And the only people who could perhaps change his mind—House Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump—seem determined not to force the issue...Miller will run and lose."

MI's at a bit greater risk But GA, NC & ME look good, and 3 of 4 in OH, AK, IA, & TX looks doable, given the environment. So I think Democrats are at least 50-50 to take the Senate. And other states not much discussed (e.g., KS) could well be in play.

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @RonWyden 🎁 🧵

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has used “virtually all” of its precision strike missiles during the war in Iran. Stockpiles on ATACMs and Precision Strike Missiles are almost depleted. And we have used about half of our Tomahawks, per new data circulating inside the admin.