Liv
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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
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SCOTUS Arguments in Braidwood Management today. We're going to hear a lot of boring talk about nondelegation and the appointments clause, but this case is really about whether Christian people can refuse to provide PrEP on account of their religious opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.
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April 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
SCOTUS Arguments in Braidwood Management today. We're going to hear a lot of boring talk about nondelegation and the appointments clause, but this case is really about whether Christian people can refuse to provide PrEP on account of their religious opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.
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one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
April 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
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🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.
April 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Today's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected.
Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.
Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.
Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
April 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Today's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected.
Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.
Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.
Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
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The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.
April 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.
April 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.
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Here are two straightforward and incontrovertible statements of law about Mahmoud Khalil:
1) Khalil is a political prisoner of the United States
2) Khallil is a "prisoner of conscience" as defined by Amnesty International
We need to say these things, and the world needs to hear them
1) Khalil is a political prisoner of the United States
2) Khallil is a "prisoner of conscience" as defined by Amnesty International
We need to say these things, and the world needs to hear them
April 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here are two straightforward and incontrovertible statements of law about Mahmoud Khalil:
1) Khalil is a political prisoner of the United States
2) Khallil is a "prisoner of conscience" as defined by Amnesty International
We need to say these things, and the world needs to hear them
1) Khalil is a political prisoner of the United States
2) Khallil is a "prisoner of conscience" as defined by Amnesty International
We need to say these things, and the world needs to hear them
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”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.
Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
April 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.
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I've got a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com clarifying whether Trump is trying to install merely an authoritarian regime or a properly fascist one in the federal government.
My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
Yes, It's Fascism
It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I've got a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com clarifying whether Trump is trying to install merely an authoritarian regime or a properly fascist one in the federal government.
My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
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The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
April 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
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Huge thx as ever to @annabower.bsky.social for the play by play. While we await DCt next order, 2 notes: (1) DOJ lawyer says on record the govt intends to comply w/the order; (2) DCt sees Admin is gaming DOJ, so instructs DOJ to tell "client" that failure to produce evidence will soon = no evidence.
HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin.
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
April 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Huge thx as ever to @annabower.bsky.social for the play by play. While we await DCt next order, 2 notes: (1) DOJ lawyer says on record the govt intends to comply w/the order; (2) DCt sees Admin is gaming DOJ, so instructs DOJ to tell "client" that failure to produce evidence will soon = no evidence.
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Judge: I hope you will in good faith comply and we'll take it from there. But I know I want daily updates until this is resolved. Do you have any alternative suggestions for me, Mr. Ensign?
Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.
Judge: My order is daily updates
Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.
Judge: My order is daily updates
April 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Judge: I hope you will in good faith comply and we'll take it from there. But I know I want daily updates until this is resolved. Do you have any alternative suggestions for me, Mr. Ensign?
Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.
Judge: My order is daily updates
Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.
Judge: My order is daily updates
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I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
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It's not that we struggle more it is that we increasingly struggle needlessly. We are not at the frontier of possibility.
April 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It's not that we struggle more it is that we increasingly struggle needlessly. We are not at the frontier of possibility.
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Justice Jackson ends her dissent with a devastating condemnation of the Court's use of the shadow docket and the horror of what's happening here:
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Justice Jackson ends her dissent with a devastating condemnation of the Court's use of the shadow docket and the horror of what's happening here:
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Must-read deep dive from Luke O’Brien for Mother Jones, paints an ominous picture of the dystopian sci-fi authoritarianism Trump allies are trying to turn into our reality. And yet another example of the nativism to authoritarian pipeline, the targeting starts but won't end with migrants.
Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administrati...
www.motherjones.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Must-read deep dive from Luke O’Brien for Mother Jones, paints an ominous picture of the dystopian sci-fi authoritarianism Trump allies are trying to turn into our reality. And yet another example of the nativism to authoritarian pipeline, the targeting starts but won't end with migrants.
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They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks.
#handsoff #50501protests
#handsoff #50501protests
April 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks.
#handsoff #50501protests
#handsoff #50501protests
they have a new pokemon title coming out this year too nintendo can charge whatever they want 😭
absolutely no point complaining about the switch 2's price. nintendo can charge whatever they want. where else are you guys gonna get your little zeldas and mario partys? nowhere. they've got you by the balls and you know it
April 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
they have a new pokemon title coming out this year too nintendo can charge whatever they want 😭