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Mark Bray packed up his wife and two young children and fled to Spain. Not because of some romantic European adventure or a Fulbright opportunity. He ran because he says America has become a fascist hellscape too dangerous for him to inhabit. And now he's written a book about it. Let that sink in for a moment. A tenured professor at Rutgers University, someone who literally … [Read more...] about Mark Bray Escaped to Spain and Wrote a Book Calling Trump’s America Fascist

For thirty years, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court sat gathering dust like some forgotten emergency tool shoved in the back of a drawer. Congress created it in 1994, probably feeling pretty smart after the first World Trade Center bombing. Then it just sat there. Unused. A legal relic that constitutional scholars would mention in footnotes and nobody else thought about … [Read more...] about Afghan Woman Who Backed ISIS Election Day Plot Gets Deported Under Forgotten 1994 Law

Judge Shelley Joseph thought she was doing the right thing. That's what makes this whole mess so infuriating. Back in April 2018, she sat on the bench in Newton District Court while an ICE officer waited patiently in the lobby to take custody of Jose Medina-Perez, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic. But Medina-Perez never made it to that lobby. He walked out the … [Read more...] about Massachusetts Judge Gets Slap on the Wrist for Helping Illegal Immigrant Dodge ICE

There's something clarifying about watching a leader refuse to play the scripted game. JD Vance stood at the podium in Dallas Thursday night, thousands of Republican voters packed into the American Airlines Center, and when a protester decided to wave Mexican and Palestinian flags during his keynote address, the vice president didn't pretend it wasn't happening. He called it … [Read more...] about Vice President Stops Speech to Confront Heckler With Foreign Flags in Dallas

Donald Trump just did something no president has ever attempted in the history of American politics. Standing before thousands of fired-up Republicans in Dallas, he promised to cut a $5,000 check to every adult citizen if the GOP manages to keep both chambers of Congress this November. Call it the Trump Dividend. Call it unprecedented. Call it whatever you want, but you can't … [Read more...] about Trump Promises Every American $5,000 If Republicans Hold Congress