Darth Helmet
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I see your Schwartz is as big as mine...
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Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
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This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Best case: stagflation followed by impeachment and economic recovery.
Worse case: depression followed by engineered emergency and fascist takeover.
Stakes as high as they come.
Worse case: depression followed by engineered emergency and fascist takeover.
Stakes as high as they come.
April 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Best case: stagflation followed by impeachment and economic recovery.
Worse case: depression followed by engineered emergency and fascist takeover.
Stakes as high as they come.
Worse case: depression followed by engineered emergency and fascist takeover.
Stakes as high as they come.
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Let me step back and explain this a bit. I'm a habeas expert. A habeas petition can only be filed in the federal district where the petitioner is at the moment of filing. So if you live in Philly, get abducted in Philly, then get whisked immediately to Louisiana before you can file your petition ...
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Let me step back and explain this a bit. I'm a habeas expert. A habeas petition can only be filed in the federal district where the petitioner is at the moment of filing. So if you live in Philly, get abducted in Philly, then get whisked immediately to Louisiana before you can file your petition ...
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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
April 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
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There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit. Then there are situations where you accuse a bunch of penguins on an uninhabited island of currency manipulation. Guess which one we’re living in? www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs
Elon Musk and DOGE have taken a blowtorch to federal agencies. But the tariffs are a helpful reminder that it's Donald Trump who's fiddling while it all burns.
www.wired.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit. Then there are situations where you accuse a bunch of penguins on an uninhabited island of currency manipulation. Guess which one we’re living in? www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
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April 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
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4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
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The penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands announce they are putting 30% tariffs on US goods.
April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands announce they are putting 30% tariffs on US goods.
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Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel
Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel
We go to Madison, Wisconsin, to speak with The Nation's John Nichols about Tuesday's pivotal state Supreme Court election, in which liberal Judge Susan Crawford convincingly defeated conservative candidate...
www.democracynow.org
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel
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Executive Orders can only deal with Executive branch issues. They're not fucking laws and every single school, company, or other entity needs to start telling them to fuck all the way off.
March 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Executive Orders can only deal with Executive branch issues. They're not fucking laws and every single school, company, or other entity needs to start telling them to fuck all the way off.
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On a plane I re-watched, for the first time in decades, a film about an undocumented immigrant couple working hard to achieve the American dream: a house, a family, friends, a small business - only to be stalked by immigration decades later.
It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.
It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.
March 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
On a plane I re-watched, for the first time in decades, a film about an undocumented immigrant couple working hard to achieve the American dream: a house, a family, friends, a small business - only to be stalked by immigration decades later.
It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.
It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.
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Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good.
Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.
Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.
March 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good.
Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.
Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.
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Using Signal set to auto delete is a violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.
Posting classified info about the strike endangered American lives.
An unauthorized person on the chat makes it a violation of the Espionage Act.
Gabbard and Ratcliffe committed perjury.
Posting classified info about the strike endangered American lives.
An unauthorized person on the chat makes it a violation of the Espionage Act.
Gabbard and Ratcliffe committed perjury.
March 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Using Signal set to auto delete is a violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.
Posting classified info about the strike endangered American lives.
An unauthorized person on the chat makes it a violation of the Espionage Act.
Gabbard and Ratcliffe committed perjury.
Posting classified info about the strike endangered American lives.
An unauthorized person on the chat makes it a violation of the Espionage Act.
Gabbard and Ratcliffe committed perjury.
👏👏👏 THIS is how to disrupt for the benefit of all.
Mark Cuban wants to revolutionize US health care thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
👏👏👏 THIS is how to disrupt for the benefit of all.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Free speech expert: The myth of the censorship industrial complex is so ludicrous that even the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismissed it out of hand last year.
March 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Free speech expert: The myth of the censorship industrial complex is so ludicrous that even the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismissed it out of hand last year.
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WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
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WATCH: Jeffrey Goldberg explaining what he was sent by Hegseth accidentally… followed by Hegseth furiously denying it.
If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃
If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃
March 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
WATCH: Jeffrey Goldberg explaining what he was sent by Hegseth accidentally… followed by Hegseth furiously denying it.
If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃
If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃
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BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."
March 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."
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99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
March 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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The Trump administration will not defy a judge's order blocking the use of war powers to deport alleged Venezuela gang members, the border czar Tom Homan said reut.rs/4bW5GET
March 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The Trump administration will not defy a judge's order blocking the use of war powers to deport alleged Venezuela gang members, the border czar Tom Homan said reut.rs/4bW5GET