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Trump LA Takeover Illegal, Federal Judge Rules; Trump Says ‘We’re Going In’ to Chicago  

Well, well, well, WELL. If it isn’t another judge confirming what we already knew: that the aspiring autocrat and dotard Donald Trump broke federal law when he sent the National Guard to Los Angeles, the AP, LA Times and Politico reported. Judge Charles Breyer forbade the Pentagon from using National Guard soldiers and Marines for arrests, crowd control and other police functions; he warned that Trump dreams of “creating a national police force with the President as its chief.”  

“The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles,” Breyer wrote in his ruling. “In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act.”

The judge did not demand the remaining troops in LA leave – which Trump noted in his weird press conference yesterday about moving US Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, because Colorado has mail-in voting and Alabama wanted it more. The remaining troops are all he needs, Trump said. 

Breyer’s ruling comes as other Democratic-led cities brace for Trump’s immigrant terror campaign to come to their doors, including in Baltimore, Chicago and New York. What happens now? The News didn’t say. Reporters asked Trump about his plans to send the National Guard to Chicago. He responded, “We’re going in,” adding, “I didn’t say when.” 

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US Military Bombs Venezuelan Ship, Kills 11

Eleven people are dead after the US military bombed what Trump called “a drug-carrying boat” operated by Tren de Aragua in the Caribbean Sea, the AP, The Guardian and The Washington Post reported. Trump posted footage of a boat exploding into flames and Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the attack, writing on social media that US forces “conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean [sic] against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.” The attack follows the regime’s decision last month to send warships and marines into the Caribbean in what Trump allies touted “as an attempt to force Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, from power.” Last month, the US announced a $50 million reward for Maduro’s capture, twice as much as the reward offered for Osama Bin Laden.

Google Avoids Worst-Case Scenario in Monopoly Case  

The multitrillion-dollar international company doesn’t have to break up, a federal judge ruled yesterday. But it does have to halt its exclusivity deals that allow it to be the only search engine on devices and browsers, Courthouse News, The Washington Post and The WSJ reported, and it must share its search index and other information with competitors. “Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote. The Justice Department “overreached in seeking forced divestiture of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints.” The case is the first in a series of monopoly cases against tech industry giants. The Justice Department also filed such a case against Apple. The Federal Trade Commission has likewise challenged Amazon and Meta. 

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Afghanistan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 1,411 The number of people injured is now at 3,124 and the number of homes destroyed is 5,400. Trump has made the suffering worse by cutting off aid, which has forced hundreds of hospitals and medical clinics to close. via NBC News. 
• ICE Gets Powerful Israeli Spyware That Can Hack Encryption The $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions means that “one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons ever created – which was produced outside the US – is now in the hands of an agency that has repeatedly been accused by civil and human rights groups of violating people’s due process rights.” via All Source Intelligence and The Guardian. 
• Pentagon Approves 600 Military Lawyer Randos as Immigration Judges “The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys – both military and civilians – to the Justice Department ‘as soon as practicable,’ and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week.” via the AP. 
• FEMA Withheld Critical Disaster Grants for Months Democratic attorneys general said in a new court filing that the agency has failed to make “a single award to the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program” in recent months, causing devastation across the country. via States Newsroom.

SOME NUMBER

70 Percent

That’s roughly the share of registered voters who said the idea that “if you work hard, you will get ahead,” isn’t true now or never was, according to a July 2025 Wall Street Journal-NORC survey. It’s the highest percentage in nearly 15 years of the survey, showing that the American Dream is pretty much dead in most people’s eyes. 

ON THE SHOW TODAY

9/3: Today’s guest is Jonathan Cohn, author and writer at the Bulwark, to discuss the chaos at the CDC.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Graham Platner Is So Good At This…

Mainstream Dems should take note that the audience gave him a standing ovation for more than 30 seconds when he said tax dollars should be spent building hospitals and schools for the US, not bombs to drop on Gaza. 

Why Jubilee Is A Problem | Amanda Seales | TMR

Wealthy, powerful interests are making people stupid.

PARTING WORDS

“I want this to be clear to everyone – really to everyone: around mid-September these boats will arrive near the coast of Gaza, close to the critical zone. If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades, even for just twenty minutes, we will block all of Europe. I’ve written it down so I won’t forget it. Together with our union, together with all the dockworkers who stand with us, together with the whole city of Genoa… from this region 13–14 thousand containers leave every year for Israel, not a single nail will leave anymore.

We will launch an international strike, we will block the roads, we will block the schools, we will block everything. Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box. That’s all I have to say.”

--A dockworker in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest attempt to date to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza by sea. A video of the man was circulating widely in Italian media, but he was not identified. 

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