Chris Kaiser
@chriskaiserva.bsky.social
Policy Director ACLU of Virginia | Fmr: ACLU of Louisiana | Unrepentant Kentuckian | Cincinnati Reds stan | Opinions are mine alone.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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REMEMBER EVERYBODY: JD Vance and Mike Johnson are part of the cover-up! This is an essential point for everyone to understand.
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
REMEMBER EVERYBODY: JD Vance and Mike Johnson are part of the cover-up! This is an essential point for everyone to understand.
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Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
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NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
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not saying it has anything to do with anything, but in his first term, trump (intentionally or not) managed to break the anti-sex trafficking movement. from 2020:
The Trump Administration Finally Broke the Anti-Trafficking Movement
The bipartisan movement to “combat trafficking” was built on many of the same superficialities as the First Family, but everyone has their limit.
newrepublic.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
not saying it has anything to do with anything, but in his first term, trump (intentionally or not) managed to break the anti-sex trafficking movement. from 2020:
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Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
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Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
In Virginia since January 2025, the number of formal 287(g) agreements (dedicating state/local police resources to help these guys) has gone from 0 to 33.
Unjustifiable.
Unjustifiable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In Virginia since January 2025, the number of formal 287(g) agreements (dedicating state/local police resources to help these guys) has gone from 0 to 33.
Unjustifiable.
Unjustifiable.
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One, spicy, focus group participant here ("activatable" white women, Nov. 5) laying out how it undermines defiance by regular folks when those in power refuse to demonstrate courage & convictions.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One, spicy, focus group participant here ("activatable" white women, Nov. 5) laying out how it undermines defiance by regular folks when those in power refuse to demonstrate courage & convictions.
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There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
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The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
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i sometimes hear that the reactionary right "has no coherent ideology" but once you see the zero-sum biopolitical basis of their thinking it becomes very straightforward
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
i sometimes hear that the reactionary right "has no coherent ideology" but once you see the zero-sum biopolitical basis of their thinking it becomes very straightforward
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Judge Immergut permanently enjoins Trump from deploying federalized National Guard members to Oregon
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![State militia under the command of a state governor." Stirling v. Minasian, 955 F.3d 795, 799
(9th Cir. 2020) (internal quotations omitted). Therefore, the President's unlawful federalization of the National Guard violates the Tenth Amendment, which "reserves to the States" any powers
not expressly delegated to the federal government in the Constitution. U.S. Const. amend. X.
In Newsom v. Trump, 141 F.4th 1032 (9th Cir. 2025), the Ninth Circuit interpreted the
provision permitting the President to call up the National Guard when he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). This Court is
bound to apply Newsom. However, this case presents novel issues not addressed in Newsom.
Newsom did not discuss Section 12406(2), which permits the President to call up the National Guard when "there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States," nor did it fully delve into the meaning of "to execute the laws of the United
States," contained in Section 12406(3). In resolving these issues, this Court draws on both Newsom's reasoning and the constitutional scope of Congress's calling forth power, which defines the outer boundaries of the President's power under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. Indeed, this
Court, "as in all cases, [must] interpret the Constitution in light of its text, purposes, and 'our whole experience' as a Nation." NRB v. Noel Canning, 573 U.S. 513, 557 (2014) (quoting Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416, 433 (1920)).
After analyzing these statutory provisions, as applied to the facts in this case, this Court
arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither "a rebellion or danger of a rebellion"
nor was the President "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States" in
Oregon when he ordered the federalization and deployment of the National Guard. 10 U.S.C.
§ 12406(2)-(3).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreihrhmfjyfkjqvzuzjqclui4cmxmbrg72hkpq3vtet3fd5xifah5vi@jpeg)
![This Court acknowledges that some citizens may support these deployments as a helpful
military supplement to effectuate the President's immigration agenda. But the Founders
"embodied their profound fear and distrust of military power... in the Constitution and its
Amendments," Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1, 29 (1957) (plurality op.), which has lived on through
the decades as "a traditional and strong resistance of Americans to any military intrusion into
civilian affairs." Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972). In the Supreme Court's words, "[s]light
encroachments create new boundaries from which legions of power can seek new territory to
capture." Reid, 354 U.S. at 39 (1957). This principle has been foundational to the safeguarding of
our fundamental liberties under the Constitution. See New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S.
254, 271-72 (1964) (noting that under the First Amendment, "freedoms of expression are to have
the breathing space that they need to survive" (ellipses and internal quotations omitted));
Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 505, 512(1961) (noting in the Fourth Amendment context
that illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing... by silent approaches
and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure" (internal quotations omitted)).
The "precise standard" to demarcate the line past which conditions would satisfy the
statutory standard to deploy the military in the streets of American cities is ultimately a question
for a higher court to decide. Newsom, 141 F.4th at 1051. But based on this Court's application of
Newsom to the factual findings at trial and the meaning of 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in light of history
and tradition, this Court finds that wherever this line precisely is, Defendants have failed to clear
it. Therefore, for all the reasons stated below, this Court permanently enjoins Defendants' orders
to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreigrneyvsdmpm7shqdarrk5hsdoaqrcfqywrpazuqb7prfmf66gqbi@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Judge Immergut permanently enjoins Trump from deploying federalized National Guard members to Oregon
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Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
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one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin
heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
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Trump wants a monopoly on both stoking public anger and personifying it--"I am your retribution"--and he is threatened that Mamdani is reframing and mobilizing anger for very different purposes.
Trump on Mamdani's victory speech: “I thought it was a very angry speech, certainly angry towards me. And I think he should be very nice to me…It's a very dangerous statement for him to make.”
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Trump wants a monopoly on both stoking public anger and personifying it--"I am your retribution"--and he is threatened that Mamdani is reframing and mobilizing anger for very different purposes.
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She spent the majority of her ad budget lying about trans people, in fact. Total failure: plus.flux.community/p/flailing-v...
Flailing Virginia governor candidate spends most of her money fearmongering about trans people
Religious extremist Winsome Earle-Sears has spent more than half of her advertising lying about less than 50 children
plus.flux.community
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
She spent the majority of her ad budget lying about trans people, in fact. Total failure: plus.flux.community/p/flailing-v...
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one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
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if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
June 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong