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[?]Nonilex » 🌐
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Secy of State on Wednesday defended a strike on a boat operated by an alleged Venezuelan gang & warned that such operations “will happen again.”

Rubio claimed previous US interdiction efforts in have not worked in stemming the flow of illicit drugs into the US & beyond.


apnews.com/article/trump-venez

    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    “What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them,” said on a visit to Mexico, adding that it is just the beginning of a larger US operation in the region.

      [?]adison verlice » 🌐
      @adisonverlice@tweesecake.social

      so, we had some guest speakers from a law enforcement agency.
      I won't comment who they are or what class this was.
      but I asked the a very simple, not misunderstood question. actually, I asked them a set of questions.
      but at about the last question, they were very hesitant in answering.
      and what I asked was, can you gather data from public records, buy it in order to bypass the forth amendment?
      now their tone sounded like they didn't want to answer that, but their initial answer is yes.
      they absolutely can.
      so they just admitted, yeah we can break your with no problem.
      they don't even have to put a hole in the because they know there is a loophole.
      this is by their own admission in front of 30 students, btw.
      but they ultimately admitted it, and I made sure to ask in no unclear terms.
      I can't believe I just got a state-wide law enforcement agency to admit what they can do

        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        of a feather…

        Advisers to have discussed giving Mayor of a job in the admin to clear the field in Nov’s mayoral & damage the chances of the front-runner, , per 3 people….

        The talks have also involved finding a possible place in the admin for the candidate, .

        The goal would be to give fmr Gov a better chance of defeating .


        nytimes.com/2025/09/03/nyregio

          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
          @Nonilex@masto.ai

          The had recently announced plans to boost its maritime force in the waters off to combat threats from Latin American drug .

          The US has not signaled any planned land incursion by the thousands of personnel being deployed. Still, President Nicolás ’s government has responded by deploying troops along Venezuela’s coast & border with neighboring , as well as by urging Venezuelans to enlist in a civilian .

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            claims the strike on vessel in targeted 's Tren de Aragua gang & killed 11.

            “The strike occurred while the *terrorists* were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States,”Trump alleged in a social media posting. “No US Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America.”


            apnews.com/article/venezuela-s

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              It’s “frightening,”VanLandingham said of the plan, because “the use of courts to hear cases is the essential component of .”

              “What you end up with,” Maurer added, “is military officers under control who are running civilian courts.”

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                The fmr JAGs gamed out several scenarios…, but they couldn’t imagine any in which it would be for the to turn into , that is, unless were to pass a that allowed it, or invoked the , which gives the commander in chief power to deploy forces within the to suppress rebellion or domestic violence.

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  And if went that route, there would be no turning back, according to Raquel Aldana, a law professor at the University of California, Davis: “The reality is that, once he does, the powers can be unlimited & we are in a .”

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    "We have assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships because this is a deadly serious mission for us, & it won't stop ... with just this strike," said Wednesday morning on FauxNews.

                    "Anyone else trafficking in those waters who *we know* is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate," he added.

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      Fuck you

                      The group behind the playbook for wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
                      
A draft position paper from the proposes massive revisions to . It wants lawmakers to create new government-seeded savings accounts to encourage only parents to have more children.


                      wapo.st/4p44mG3

                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                        The hopes to steer for AWAY from programs like & toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents [wives] to stay home & rear children.

                        And the group wants to issue requiring ALL proposed policies & to “measure their positive or negative impacts & marriage & family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly [whose metrics?].

                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                          Those ideas are part of a 5-pg summary of a forthcoming position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family.” It calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family” & induce couples to have more babies…
                          The paper represents a pivot for Heritage away from its tradition of small government & free-market conservatism toward an ideology that embraces government in affairs as private as .

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            : mission won't stop "with just this strike"

                            Sec Hegseth suggested in a Wednesday interview that the strike on an alleged drug vessel that ofcls said hailed from Venezuela would not be the last as US assets amass off the country's shores.

                            Tuesday's operation marked a sharp escalation in already boiling tensions between the US govt & the regime of Venezuelan President .


                            axios.com/2025/09/03/hegseth-v

                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              🚨🚨 authorizes up to 600 to serve as temporary

                              Secretary has approved sending up to 600 lawyers to the to serve as temporary , acc/to a memo reviewed by The AP.


                              apnews.com/article/pentagon-im

                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                The will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military & civilians — to the “as soon as practicable” & the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, acc/to the memo, dated Aug. 27.

                                The effort comes as the admin cracks down on across the country, ramping up & . Immigration courts also already are dealing with a massive backlog of ~3.5M cases that has ballooned in recent years.

                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                  Unlike courts in the branch, where the Senate confirms to life tenure to ensure their , courts are part of the . They are run by the ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (). Still, while are department employees, they are supposed to act as neutral arbiters.

                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                    Not coincidentally, last Thursday, the published a rule change on the website of the Federal Register relaxing criteria for who can serve as a temporary judge. It eliminated a requirement that such judges have substantial experience in , or that they must already be serving as administrative law judges () at other agencies.

                                    govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202

                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                      The may now designate “any lawyer” as a temporary immigration judge for 6 months — a period that can be renewed indefinitely. The admin claimed that the change promoted increased “flexibility,” while rejecting critics who raised doubts about whether it would increase the risk of biased judges.

                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                        It’s also important to remember that shortly after taking office, Secy fired the top officers of the & . The position at the was already vacant. Hegseth has long expressed hostility toward .

                                        He has called them “jagoffs,” & complained they unduly restricted rules of engagement on the battlefield. He also questioned whether it made sense to obey the , a core ethos of JAG lawyers.

                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                          “This would be ,” added Rachel VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles who was an .

                                          In particular, VanLandingham said, turning into would likely violate the , a federal that bars US troops from participating in or “executing the laws,” unless otherwise authorized to do so by the or .


                                          motherjones.com/politics/2025/

                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                            Says US Industry Is ‘Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive From Wells.

                                            …Texas regulators tout their efforts to curtail oil field emissions by requiring drillers to obtain permits to release or burn from their wells.


                                            propublica.org/article/texas-m

                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                              A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of to was more than just an overreach.

                                              The administration broke the . Its officials knew they were breaking the law. And they’ll likely try to do so again.


                                              theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

                                                [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                                                @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                                                "The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.

                                                This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."

                                                newleftreview.org/issues/ii154

                                                  [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                                                  @ProPublica@newsie.social

                                                  What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
                                                  ---

                                                  Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty.
                                                  propublica.org/article/lloyd-g

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