Dahlia Lithwick
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
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Great to talk with Dahlia about the warehousification of immigrant detention and how it intersects with concentration camp history. I've now had a chance to listen to the Linus Chan segment, too, and it's so helpful how he lays out the maximalist approach unfolding now on the ground.
The weaponization of mass detention is the point. With Prof. Linus Chan on the vaporization of due process and @andreapitzer.bsky.social on mass detention and warehousing Amazon-style. shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...
The Concentration Camp Next Door | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
The Trump administration has weaponized immigration detention against America
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February 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Great to talk with Dahlia about the warehousification of immigrant detention and how it intersects with concentration camp history. I've now had a chance to listen to the Linus Chan segment, too, and it's so helpful how he lays out the maximalist approach unfolding now on the ground.
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“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y
February 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y
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Pickard argues that
"Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions..." www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
"Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions..." www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says
www.asc.upenn.edu
February 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Pickard argues that
"Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions..." www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
"Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions..." www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
The weaponization of mass detention is the point. With Prof. Linus Chan on the vaporization of due process and @andreapitzer.bsky.social on mass detention and warehousing Amazon-style. shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...
The Concentration Camp Next Door | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
The Trump administration has weaponized immigration detention against America
shows.acast.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The weaponization of mass detention is the point. With Prof. Linus Chan on the vaporization of due process and @andreapitzer.bsky.social on mass detention and warehousing Amazon-style. shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...
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NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history at a vigil in the devastated northern British Columbia town.
Prime Minister Carney and Canada's main opposition leader hold hands during school shooting vigil
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history at a vigil in the devastated northern British Columbia town.
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February 14, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history at a vigil in the devastated northern British Columbia town.
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With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on our most partisan justice MAYBE heading for the exits, and the nightmare candidates jostling to replace him: slate.com/news-and-pol...
It Sure Looks Like This Supreme Court Justice Is Getting Ready to Retire
A flurry of recent hints has prompted new speculation that the court’s most reliably partisan conservative is eyeing the exit.
slate.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on our most partisan justice MAYBE heading for the exits, and the nightmare candidates jostling to replace him: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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@davidkurtz.bsky.social on Trump ending the EPA's endangerment finding: "Beating back the flames of fascism while the fascists fan the flames of global warming is the dual-threat 21st-century apocalypse that I can still scarcely get my head around."
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Boasberg Bashes Admin’s Latest Conduct in AEA Case
‘The Solution-less Mire’ In a careful, incremental, and modulated ruling designed to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
@davidkurtz.bsky.social on Trump ending the EPA's endangerment finding: "Beating back the flames of fascism while the fascists fan the flames of global warming is the dual-threat 21st-century apocalypse that I can still scarcely get my head around."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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look i hate to be this guy i really do but my oh my nick fuentes sure does talk a big game for someone i could comfortably bench press three of
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
look i hate to be this guy i really do but my oh my nick fuentes sure does talk a big game for someone i could comfortably bench press three of
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There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.
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“We can outlast an occupation”: Frey celebrates as Minneapolis ICE surge ends
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"We can outlast an occupation": Frey celebrates as Minneapolis ICE surge ends - Salon.com
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February 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
“We can outlast an occupation”: Frey celebrates as Minneapolis ICE surge ends
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Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles
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BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
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Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
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It will very much be worth your time to read this.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
It will very much be worth your time to read this.
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While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders
While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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ICE did a high speed chase in crowded city streets YESTERDAY. I hope it's true. But ...
The immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota is ending, said Tom Homan, the border czar for President Donald Trump.
“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.
“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.
Border czar Tom Homan: Immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota coming to an end
Homan addressed reporters Thursday morning at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the base for the ongoing federal immigration operation in Minnesota.
www.mprnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
ICE did a high speed chase in crowded city streets YESTERDAY. I hope it's true. But ...
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
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House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump’s Claims of Fraud www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump’s Claims of Fraud
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February 12, 2026 at 8:21 AM
House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump’s Claims of Fraud www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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U.S. Attorney Chosen by Judges to Replace Trump Pick, Who Was Serving Unlawfully, Is Quickly Fired by White House
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U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 AM
U.S. Attorney Chosen by Judges to Replace Trump Pick, Who Was Serving Unlawfully, Is Quickly Fired by White House
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/n...
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Trump tries and fails to extort Canada
It's Bridgegate 2.0, only much dumber.
aaronrupar.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM