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The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about Sigbovik
A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about House of Leaves
June 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.
If ICE were acting entirely within the law and maintaining good conditions in all its facilities, they would not be turning Congresspeople away.

But they clearly aren't.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...
5 Lawmakers in California and New York Are Denied Access to Federal Detention Facilities
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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There's a new Adventuring Academy out now on Dropout with guest Erika Ishii! Join Erika and Brennan for discussions about tabletop romance, wet beans, Elvish poetry, and so much more!

#AdventuringAcademy
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
it is so so good and I wish there could be more
Scavengers Reign (2023)

The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
May 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Scavengers Reign (2023)

The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
May 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return.

I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:
WATCH: Van Hollen meeting with Vice President of El Salvador
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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May 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I was curious where exactly this text came from, and it seems to be available at www.congress.gov/118/plaws/pu... ("Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47)")
May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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And that's it.

"All rise" as judge leaves the bench.

In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand.

She hugs her attorney, smiling.
May 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Yesterday, in a huge victory for due process, a federal judge ordered a Venezuelan couple immediately released after finding that government could not provide the evidence required to designate them as alien enemies. 🧵

(cc: @dcmigrantmutualaid.org & Amnesty USA)
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Despite repeated outreach from @nipnlg.bsky.social attorneys ICE refused to let the parents speak to each other or mom speak to her attorney. We filed a late-night habeas petition ICE was fully aware of, but they deported them anyway.
Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process.

He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
for the last time, people, this is to conform to human *intuitions* about arrays. If your array has 0 elements fahrenheit, i.e. -32 elements celsius, that's a clear sign of a memory error. If it has 100F, i.e. 68, that feels like kind of a lot of elements.
Array indices start at 0 in C, but start at 32 in F.
April 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law.

We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders.

To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance.

Defeatism is a form of surrender.
April 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I did this.
If you're happy Harvard stood up for academic freedom today: write your alma mater(s) if they haven't done the same and ask them to do the same. Make this your one action you take today. And share that you did it below!
April 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Never again is now, friends.

Don't look away.

We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch.

Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities?

If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
April 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
fuck
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

x.com/nayibbukele/...
x.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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NEW: The Trump administration has now filed its status report on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It says that he is alive and being held in CECOT pursuant to the “domestic authority of El Salvador”
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday.

What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
BREAKING: DOJ files a response, nearly 50 minutes past the deadline, saying they are "unable to provide" any of the information Judge Xinis ordered.

"Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality."
April 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
www.cbsnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM