Josh Wenderoff
@jwenderoff.bsky.social
at the precipice of an enormous crossroad
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Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."
Another crucial lesson from this Harvard situation: There is no plan B. Trump's team had no idea what to do if Harvard said "no fuck you."
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
April 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."
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@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov take note and get thee to Louisiana to check on Rumeysa Ozturk
Here’s a source for the quote, which is not included in the letter
Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned | U.S. Senator Chris V...
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he is in the United States this week in...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
April 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov take note and get thee to Louisiana to check on Rumeysa Ozturk
RFK's strategy to lower the proportion of chronic disease deaths in the US: Increase the number of fatal injuries and infectious diseases. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
RFK's strategy to lower the proportion of chronic disease deaths in the US: Increase the number of fatal injuries and infectious diseases. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Judge Wilkinson: "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Judge Wilkinson: "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide.
That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.
That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.
April 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide.
That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.
That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.
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"There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything."
What are you doing to end lawless, arbitrary detention? There is room for literally every peaceful action.
What are you doing to end lawless, arbitrary detention? There is room for literally every peaceful action.
Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions.
Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of.
There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.
Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of.
There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.
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"
–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 8:04 PM
"There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything."
What are you doing to end lawless, arbitrary detention? There is room for literally every peaceful action.
What are you doing to end lawless, arbitrary detention? There is room for literally every peaceful action.
@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov take note and get thee to Louisiana to check on Rumeysa Ozturk
Here’s a source for the quote, which is not included in the letter
Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned | U.S. Senator Chris V...
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he is in the United States this week in...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
April 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov take note and get thee to Louisiana to check on Rumeysa Ozturk
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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
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This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard.
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard.
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
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The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
This from the man who literally thinks bleaching your lungs is good medicine
April 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This from the man who literally thinks bleaching your lungs is good medicine
Nailing "restorative solitude" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Quiz: How Healthy Is Your Social Life?
Research shows that our happiness depends on a complex web of relationships and interactions. Fifteen simple questions can assess yours.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nailing "restorative solitude" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"They're testing the waters. If they can arrest people without any due process and without any cause, and put them in jail somewhere, and then say, 'sorry, there's nothing we can do about it,' eventually they move beyond immigrants start doing that to other people."
Doug is very good here:
Doug is very good here:
"They wanted pictures of brown men being frog-marched through a maximum security prison [so] they rounded up a bunch of useful suspects and sent them to another dictator's prison."
On the pod, @douglasrivlin.bsky.social is great on Trump's real goals w/deportations:
newrepublic.com/article/1934...
On the pod, @douglasrivlin.bsky.social is great on Trump's real goals w/deportations:
newrepublic.com/article/1934...
Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over
As JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily defend the removal of a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error,” a shrewd immigration observer says we’re now in alarmingly lawless terr...
newrepublic.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"They're testing the waters. If they can arrest people without any due process and without any cause, and put them in jail somewhere, and then say, 'sorry, there's nothing we can do about it,' eventually they move beyond immigrants start doing that to other people."
Doug is very good here:
Doug is very good here:
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Judge Susan Crawford, backed by the state Democratic party, defeated Judge Brad Schimel, who was backed by President Trump and Elon Musk, to help liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority in the state’s judiciary. Read more about the results. nyti.ms/4hY4IJs
April 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Judge Susan Crawford, backed by the state Democratic party, defeated Judge Brad Schimel, who was backed by President Trump and Elon Musk, to help liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority in the state’s judiciary. Read more about the results. nyti.ms/4hY4IJs
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April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Proud to be a new 'Basketeer
In better news, De La Soul is featured on a new single with Fela Kuti's son open.spotify.com/track/2Hqx8G...
Stand Well Well - Grand Stand Version
Seun Kuti, Egypt 80, De La Soul · Stand Well Well (Grand Stand Version) · Song · 2025
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March 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In better news, De La Soul is featured on a new single with Fela Kuti's son open.spotify.com/track/2Hqx8G...
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Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately".
He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting.
Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.
He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting.
Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately".
He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting.
Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.
He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting.
Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.
Since CECOT is accepting American visitors, @connolly.house.gov, would you plz go down and check in on Neri Alvarado Borges, Arturo Suárez Trejo and other men disappeared off US streets for having tattoos?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Since CECOT is accepting American visitors, @connolly.house.gov, would you plz go down and check in on Neri Alvarado Borges, Arturo Suárez Trejo and other men disappeared off US streets for having tattoos?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Will GRU respond to FOIA requests for the WH's Signal chats?
Here’s the first page of that internal NSA OPSEC Special Bulletin on Signal Vulnerability obtained via Jim.👇
March 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Will GRU respond to FOIA requests for the WH's Signal chats?
Apparently James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay are part of the deep state
(1) If it’s a statutory challenge: convince Congress to pass a law.
(2) If it’s a constitutional challenge: try to amend the Constitution.
(3) If that fails: rally voters to elect politicians to do (1) and/or (2).
(4) If that also fails: question whether he is wildly popular.
(2) If it’s a constitutional challenge: try to amend the Constitution.
(3) If that fails: rally voters to elect politicians to do (1) and/or (2).
(4) If that also fails: question whether he is wildly popular.
March 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Apparently James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay are part of the deep state
The Unabomber had a plan to remake the economy; he just didn't explain it very well
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Unabomber had a plan to remake the economy; he just didn't explain it very well
And he's never been to Comet Ping Pong
The girl was 12 years old.
He's one of Trump's biggest promoters and legitimizers.
He's prayed over Trump in the White House.
Trump's been to his church.
Greg Abbott tapped him on the anti-trans bathroom bills.
Now he faces 100+ years in prison.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/megachurch...
He's one of Trump's biggest promoters and legitimizers.
He's prayed over Trump in the White House.
Trump's been to his church.
Greg Abbott tapped him on the anti-trans bathroom bills.
Now he faces 100+ years in prison.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/megachurch...
Megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of "lewd acts" with a child
Robert Morris, a Donald Trump ally, now faces up to 100 years behind bars
www.friendlyatheist.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
And he's never been to Comet Ping Pong
As Trump Courts Putin, Russians Keep Trying to Kill Americans www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cour...
As Trump Courts Putin, Russians Keep Trying to Kill Americans
The “gray zone” war on America and its allies isn’t going to stop.
www.thebulwark.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
As Trump Courts Putin, Russians Keep Trying to Kill Americans www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cour...