Excerpt: President Trump told The Times during a wide-ranging interview last night that he alone was the arbiter of his authority as commander in chief. He brushed aside international law and other checks on his power to order the U.S. military to strike or invade nations around the world.

When asked if there were any limits on his global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

Me again: So, no constraints at all.

Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis, is the guy who who said ICE should “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.” Probably half of Minneapolisonians have said that, but Frey’s the mayor and said it on camera, which is actually slightly helpful, thanks.

In my wildest daydreams, I wish Mayor Frey would use his authority to do something, instead of merely saying something. He could, for example, order his city’s police to cease all interactions with ICE, and to actively protect people from ICE.

Such an order, of course, would not be obeyed by Minneapolis Police, so it would reveal that the police chief, not the mayor, is actually in charge — in Minneapolis, as in every American city.

Federal agents in masks collect evidence from home of vanished ICE agent who killed Minneapolis woman

Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE

A new clip of the Minneapolis ICE killing was leaked to a site sympathetic to Derek Chauvin

Apparently, the only building in America not subject to building permits is the White House.

Someone who’s getting punched and punched and punched, but refuses on principle to ever fight back, is as good as dead.