Chiara Coletti
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
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The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
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I wonder how Marjorie Taylor Greene feels, knowing she got played by Steve Bannon & Jeffrey Epstein with their QAnon Save the Children BS
Steve Bannon being friends with Jeffrey Epstein after spending years doing his whole populist, “down with the elites” bullshit is so funny.
These entire movement is just criminals, liars, and sex offenders.
These entire movement is just criminals, liars, and sex offenders.
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I wonder how Marjorie Taylor Greene feels, knowing she got played by Steve Bannon & Jeffrey Epstein with their QAnon Save the Children BS
Yikes.
Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yikes.
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Unlike Supreme Court Justices, the rest of the fed’l judiciary is governed by canons of ethics. Among other things, they’re not supposed to attend political events & should avoid even an appearance of impropriety. joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-e...
Judicial Ethics
Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Unlike Supreme Court Justices, the rest of the fed’l judiciary is governed by canons of ethics. Among other things, they’re not supposed to attend political events & should avoid even an appearance of impropriety. joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-e...
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Essential @hcrichardson.bsky.social deep dive on Human Rights Day and how far the world leader on it has fallen in just one year heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Essential @hcrichardson.bsky.social deep dive on Human Rights Day and how far the world leader on it has fallen in just one year heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
Tough prediction.
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tough prediction.
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Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
The Trump administration is undermining American soft power
Donald Trump’s policies on foreign students are harming America’s universities. Innovation and entrepreneurship will also suffer as a consequence
www.economist.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
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Trump v. Slaughter is poised to be a landmark step on this country’s turn away from democratic governance and good government in favor of oligarchy and despotism. trib.al/ZIVkHge
The Supreme Court Is Set to Pick Financial Predators Over the People
The Roberts court is about to hand the president—and an untold number of financial predators—a massive win.
trib.al
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump v. Slaughter is poised to be a landmark step on this country’s turn away from democratic governance and good government in favor of oligarchy and despotism. trib.al/ZIVkHge
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A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
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"During a Dec visit to Washington, Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said.
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"During a Dec visit to Washington, Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said.
This is truly terrifying as the U.S. sells out the West.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is truly terrifying as the U.S. sells out the West.
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The neediest man in the world...
Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C., and put his name on it, even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing. trib.al/VfgIbAC
Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters
This is not Donald Trump’s building, but he’s certainly acting like it is.
trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The neediest man in the world...
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I have no doubt about what a clinical psychiatrist would say about this.
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I have no doubt about what a clinical psychiatrist would say about this.
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Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected."
Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.
Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected."
Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.
Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.
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The 200 deaths per day come from fentanyl (that's a 2023 number, in the last year of Biden it was reduced to about 140 per day). Total quantity of fentanyl entering the US from Venezuela: zero (0). In other words, the entire pretext for this war rests on a lie.
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The 200 deaths per day come from fentanyl (that's a 2023 number, in the last year of Biden it was reduced to about 140 per day). Total quantity of fentanyl entering the US from Venezuela: zero (0). In other words, the entire pretext for this war rests on a lie.
A wow of a column by the conservative George Will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A wow of a column by the conservative George Will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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1/Hegseth is now boosting posts claiming the “kill everybody” reporting is a “lie.” At the same time, he frames the strike as Bradley’s decision. He is publicly removing himself from the chain of causation while placing responsibility on the operational commander.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
1/Hegseth is now boosting posts claiming the “kill everybody” reporting is a “lie.” At the same time, he frames the strike as Bradley’s decision. He is publicly removing himself from the chain of causation while placing responsibility on the operational commander.
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This
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Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders.
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Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This
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Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders.
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Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders.
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It was always going to be "If MAGA people were involved, it couldn't have been *that* bad, right?", wasn't it?
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It was always going to be "If MAGA people were involved, it couldn't have been *that* bad, right?", wasn't it?
The blame has been shifted to a top naval officer.
The White House says a follow-up attack on an alleged drug vessel that killed the remaining crew was ordered by an admiral acting "well within his authority." https://cnn.it/48st0IO
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The blame has been shifted to a top naval officer.
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The predicate for the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, which in turn is the predicate for his trial on charges of capital homicide.
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The predicate for the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, which in turn is the predicate for his trial on charges of capital homicide.
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Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”