Elliot Sperber
@elliotsperber.bsky.social
Lawyer. Human rights. Degrowth. Bylines here and there. He/him
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Or rewilded it
What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Or rewilded it
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
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Even if we were at war with Venezuela, and even if the boat folks were smuggling drugs, that DOES NOT MAKE THEM COMBATANTS. I am begging people to consult international law experts. They're out there! They want to talk!
We weren’t (and at this hour still aren’t) at war with Venezuela so both strikes are just murder
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Even if we were at war with Venezuela, and even if the boat folks were smuggling drugs, that DOES NOT MAKE THEM COMBATANTS. I am begging people to consult international law experts. They're out there! They want to talk!
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Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
And don’t forget, the New York State constitution’s article 1, section 19 guarantee of a “right to a healthful environment”. There’s not just an ethical duty but a legal one as well to create a healthy environment.
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
And don’t forget, the New York State constitution’s article 1, section 19 guarantee of a “right to a healthful environment”. There’s not just an ethical duty but a legal one as well to create a healthy environment.
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Someone needs to make a point of the fact that the people who did this will face prosecution when it’s over.
Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Someone needs to make a point of the fact that the people who did this will face prosecution when it’s over.
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I believe some people are amenable to persuasion. But there's a hard core, 20 or 25 percent of the population, that will just have to be contained -- shamed or shunned into keeping their mouths shut -- until nature takes its course, the same way core Nazi or Confederate supporters should have been.
I keep saying that conservatism is a punitive, authoritarian ideology, that MAGA is conservatism on steroids, that they're clean off the right end of Adorno's F-scale. But this -- THIS -- is beyond adequate verbal description.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I believe some people are amenable to persuasion. But there's a hard core, 20 or 25 percent of the population, that will just have to be contained -- shamed or shunned into keeping their mouths shut -- until nature takes its course, the same way core Nazi or Confederate supporters should have been.
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This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Except fruit
EVERYTHING THAT'S INTERESTING IS NEW
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Except fruit
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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When we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans. theintercept.com/2025/11/27/g...
Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.
theintercept.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans. theintercept.com/2025/11/27/g...
Thinking is thanking, but they don’t do either
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thinking is thanking, but they don’t do either
As Thanksgiving approaches I’m thinking of the radical ingratitude of those with no humility who are attacking their neighbors, launching wars of aggression and exploiting and polluting the planet well into mass extinction, aka the ruling class.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
As Thanksgiving approaches I’m thinking of the radical ingratitude of those with no humility who are attacking their neighbors, launching wars of aggression and exploiting and polluting the planet well into mass extinction, aka the ruling class.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
Crescent crescere
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Crescent crescere
The ghost of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The ghost of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
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We're chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike. interc.pt/485R3NM
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We're chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike. interc.pt/485R3NM
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
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Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
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November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
General Motors and General Electric are fighting a war, against the General Welfare. General Motors is building the tanks. General Electric is producing the bombs. The General Welfare has next to nothing. Which side are you on?
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
General Motors and General Electric are fighting a war, against the General Welfare. General Motors is building the tanks. General Electric is producing the bombs. The General Welfare has next to nothing. Which side are you on?