Justin Meuse

@OKnox This labels the Russell Senate Office Buildng as the "US House of Representatives." House is south, Senate north!

Posted this on another site on this day in 2016. How quickly can you find the problem?

In Pennsylvania just one court has had to reject the government NINETY TIMES IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS as they kept detaining people “without cause, without notice, and in clear violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.”

I’m told by another big city DA what’s next: Minneapolis police will arrest the ICE agents who fired the shots and they will be indicted. Qualified immunity only applies if conduct is “reasonable.” This wasn’t.

Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents 3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen 4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

@Kodo278155 @ThunderousAppl3 @BNicDan @CryptKeeper_06 @cturnbull1968 The “cop” who threw himself in front of her car despite conflicting orders to “leave” and to “get out of the car”? How do you explain the fact that her wheels were clearly turned away from the officer? Come on. You can’t be this fucking stupid.

@ThunderousAppl3 @BNicDan @CryptKeeper_06 @cturnbull1968 How do you know that? She literally hit a cop with her car.

It’s real simple. If the driver wanted to run over the ICE agent, she’d have driven straight. Instead, she had the wheel fully turned and the cop pulled the trigger, from the corner of the hood and actually leaned in to do it. He executed her.

@SwipeWright Absolutely braindead take, and anyone who has ever driven a car and turned a wheel would know what you’re saying is absolute horseshit. She was trying to get away.

I’ll point out one thing. At the 4–5 second mark, the car is in drive and the woman steps on the gas while the wheels are turned to the LEFT. Because the ground is frozen, the tires have no traction and spin in place. Had there been no ice, the car very likely would have head-on struck the officer standing in front of the vehicle.

A six year old is an orphan because the government shot the mom, and now they are lying about it. This conduct will go down in infamy like the govt agents who kidnapped native kids, or those who incarcerated Japanese Americans. Shame, forever.

I don’t think the Trump administration will attack Denmark either. But I don’t for a minute blame Denmark for taking the threats seriously. More importantly, this “oh he’s just threatening to attack a NATO ally in service to his own narcissistic craving for legacy acquisitions, he’ll never actually attack” isn’t the defense some people on this site seem to think it is. It is flat-out *outrageous* and indefensible for an American administration to be saber rattling against a NATO ally in order to intimidate them out of territory. To be doing this not only in the context of the immediate aftermath of the Venezuela operation but in the broader context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is beyond grotesque. And I gotta say there are a lot of people who claim to still be Reaganite foreign policy conservatives around here who are awfully silent about this.

@mattyglesias "The opinions expressed here are solely those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Sierra Club." Not sure it's fair to say this was the position of "green groups" -- the vast, vast majority of them supported the IRA.

I enjoyed your NYT op-ed, but I have some disagreements. First, I disagree with the way you equate the left and right's "identity politics," as you put it. At its best, the left's version of "identity politics" is a liberal corrective. It's rooted in the civil rights, feminism, and gay rights movements. Each of these is about making good on the Enlightenment's ideals and liberal principles you espoused in your piece. The right's "identity politics" is the opposite. It's about exclusion, not inclusion. Since it's about bloodline ethno-nationalism, it's fundamentally illiberal. To equate the two as "identity politics" misses this critical distinction, which feels vital to your piece. I would argue that the left's project is necessary in an unequal society that already has racist and sexist structures built in, as well as the legacies left by previous illiberal eras. Regardless, whether you believe in structural racism, your piece obscures some important moral distinctions between these two projects. This seems essential for an op-ed about liberalism. Second, I've seen many non-white conservatives denounce the rise of Groypers. But where was this energy when the racism, sexism, and homophobia were targeted at Blacks, Latinos, gays, women, and other minorities? They were told to shut up; that this was "woke ideology" gone too far. Just yesterday, the unveiling of the Barbara Rose Johns statue, which replaced the Robert E. Lee statue, was widely criticized here as "wokism." Is that not a natural and logical step to creating the kind of society you said you want to see? Conservatives have mocked or minimized these concerns and appealed to free speech. But when the attacks are targeted at Indian or Jewish conservatives — which I also think are wrong — suddenly "people need to speak out." I agree that people should speak out against this, but I would also like to see consistency. My third disagreement, related to the above, is that you treat "American ideals" as uncontroversial and settled. I agree with certain conservatives about one thing: some of our founders would be shocked if they were suddenly dropped in 2025 and learned that their words resulted in a society where Blacks are free, women can vote, and LGBTQ+ people are in government. The liberal ideals you espoused, and I ultimately share, have always been contested and renegotiated through political struggle. The Constitution itself is a record of this process (e.g., 13th and 19th amendments). Yet, in this last election, you supported Donald Trump, who came into power by stoking white resentment. At the very least, he does not always share your view of what it means to be an American (the very title of the piece). You ask conservatives to disavow the Groypers and "speak out," as you see censorship as an unjustifiable solution to this problem. But have you spoken out about Trump's rhetoric about Somali citizens? Or when conservatives like Randy Fine denigrate Muslims? We are in an ongoing negotiation about what it means to be an American. You ask people to speak out against anti-Indian American hatred, but I wish you would do the same for others.

Trump is slashing special ed. Republicans are destroying wild places—I’m fighting back on the floor. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge deserves our protection. I’m on the Senate floor to tell you why. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@roddreher @gjpappin @BalazsOrban_HU @JDVance @PM_ViktorOrban Probably the lamest group of pathetic, tin pot wannabes I’ve ever seen. Congratulations.

Don't know what y'all did last night, but I went over to my buddy's house in DC for bourbon with the guys. And an hour of talking geopolitics. With @gjpappin @BalazsOrban_HU @JDVance @PM_ViktorOrban

Today, we returned to court to continue our fight to end the unlawful and indefinite deployment of the National Guard to DC. This unprecedented federal overreach is an affront to Home Rule and undermines the core principles of American democracy. Armed soldiers should not be policing American citizens on American soil. And no city in America should be subject to involuntary military occupation. We are not made safer by untrained, out-of-state military forces — who do not know our communities and are not accountable to DC residents — policing our streets with rifles, handcuffs, and armored vehicles. The additional tasks National Guardsmen are being assigned in DC — picking up trash, raking leaves, and spreading mulch — are not a good use of the National Guard's expertise or taxpayer dollars. Since we filed our lawsuit, our warning that the same strategy would be replicated in other cities has proven true. If this is allowed to continue, we risk setting a dangerous precedent that the same Armed Forces sworn to defend our freedoms can be deployed to suppress our freedoms anywhere in America. It is time to let the National Guard go home to their regular lives, families, and children — instead of spending another year policing our nation’s capital as a military force.

I'm on the Senate floor now urging my colleagues to vote NO on resolutions that would erase years of local input, threaten our public lands, and create chaos for communities and businesses nationwide. Full speech: youtu.be/3ia9OKSK2Ms x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Chaco Canyon is a living landscape — a sacred homeland still tied to the ceremonial and religious lives of Indigenous communities today. That’s why I introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, which would permanently protect this sacred place by withdrawing federal lands around Chaco from new oil and gas leasing while safeguarding Navajo and tribal mineral rights.

So...no one in the Trump administration has heard of batteries?

And don't forget to check out our report and map here: wilderness.org/articles/press…

Was thrilled to join the podcast for a conversation about H.R. 1's impact on public lands, @Wilderness's Open for Drilling Report, and how folks can get involved. Check it out here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ou…