Tom Clark

@tomsclark.bsky.social

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Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. www.tomclarkphd.com Go birds.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4h

These stories are really shocking. Which is good, we shouldn’t get used to the government abridging civil liberties and abusing its power.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.

Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate

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Reposted by Tom Clark, John Horgan, Laurent Pech , and 7 more Tom Clark, John Horgan, Laurent Pech, Robert C. Richards, Michael Zimmer, Adrian Daub, Bessma Momani, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Kate Starbird, Aurélien Mondon

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 1d

We’re way deep into the Idiocracy plot at this point.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Tom Clark, Henry Jones , and 1 more Joe R. Feagin, Tom Clark, Henry Jones, David Darmofal

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 1d

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism. #holdfast

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The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists

A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 1d

Step 1, start a trade war to grind imports to a halt, destroying the logistics industry.

Step 2, build a secret police force to round up people you don’t like.

Step 3, make use of the destroyed logistics infrastructure to treat human beings like cargo.

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ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses — The Washington Post

The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

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Reposted by Tom Clark, Philip Nel, Richard M. Carpiano , and 2 more Tom Clark, Philip Nel, Richard M. Carpiano, Eric J. Segall, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.

Reposted by Steven Heydemann, Tom Clark, Robert C. Richards , and 2 more Steven Heydemann, Tom Clark, Robert C. Richards, Gerald Friedman, Jacob T. Levy

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

Restoring Bivens rights: one bill "would allow citizens to sue for damages resulting from constitutional violations committed by federal officers," while the other "would create a cause of action against federal law enforcement agencies and police depts for constitutional violations."

These congressmen want to give you the right to sue federal law enforcement for violating your rights

The proposed bills aim to codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 3d

Ellison is trying to buy Warner Bros. Now that the US has become a full-fledged personalist regime, this is just the way things work.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3d

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Fabián Muniesa

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back

Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3d

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d

This is how it works. Let the administration corruptly influence the media, and then the media no liber can report on government.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Reposted by Tom Clark

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about the Free Press is that you can read it and have no idea that Trump is violating the purported values of the publication, or even that he is President. And the Free Press is the reason why Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News.

top stories from the Free press, no mention of Trump

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d

This is the upshot for the government that exerts a control over the media.

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 4d

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.

Reposted by Peter Murphy, Tom Clark, David R. Miller

Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Shannon Vallor, Will Jennings , and 26 more Anne Applebaum, Shannon Vallor, Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joseph Schafer, Kevin Carey, Daniel W. Drezner, Jonathan Hopkin, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Adrian Daub, Jared Yates Sexton, Jacob T. Levy, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Scott A. Imberman, Robert B. Reich, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Simon Lester, Daxton R. Stewart, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Magda Teter, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dan Immergluck, David Darmofal, Peter Jacobs

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 4d

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?

MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 4d

An underappreciated dimension of our media and politics environment is that every policy principal is now terminally online, arguing basic policy matters in public

In no sane world, prior to 2016, would anyone want the DNI (or any admin official) to set or defend U.S. policy or objectives this way

Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 5d

Hey is it good when the DNI repeats Russian talking points?

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 5d

Hey is it good when the DNI repeats Russian talking points?

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 6d

I'd prefer that DHS didn't regularly post sacrilegious Christmas-themed social media posts. I think a reasonable person could interpret this as openly mocking the Christian religion and one of its most significant holidays.

Dear Illegal Aliens, fly home for the holidays!

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 6d

Everything Trump does looks both tacky is aesthetically unpleasing, because it's thrown together and not thought-through.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

The building now reads: “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, the last thing we'd want is a chief executive who takes a moment to consider the legal, practical, or moral implicates of his decisions.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:

“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller, David Darmofal

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6d

“These renamings are the latest assertion of kind of presidential authority over truth itself. The name isn’t supposed to be up to the president; it was established by act of Congress…But the White House can update the website to read ‘Trump-Kennedy Center.’”

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