Sam Halpert
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🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
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On the senate side, the party out of power barely gets a reduction in staff when they lose the majority.
They can do all this work now and they can not fund ICE right now.
They can do all this work now and they can not fund ICE right now.
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
On the senate side, the party out of power barely gets a reduction in staff when they lose the majority.
They can do all this work now and they can not fund ICE right now.
They can do all this work now and they can not fund ICE right now.
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The one they technically can’t do now (prosecutions) they can’t even if they win in a landslide for the midterms anyway.
They get the gavels if they win a chamber of Congress but we’ve already been through this last time, the Trump administration simply ignores the subpoenas so who cares?
They get the gavels if they win a chamber of Congress but we’ve already been through this last time, the Trump administration simply ignores the subpoenas so who cares?
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The one they technically can’t do now (prosecutions) they can’t even if they win in a landslide for the midterms anyway.
They get the gavels if they win a chamber of Congress but we’ve already been through this last time, the Trump administration simply ignores the subpoenas so who cares?
They get the gavels if they win a chamber of Congress but we’ve already been through this last time, the Trump administration simply ignores the subpoenas so who cares?
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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
papers.ssrn.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The first university to do this will survive this decade
This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The first university to do this will survive this decade
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It is amazing how *not* how it works this is. And that the guy sitting in the biggest business seat in the land either thinks this or *thinks he can say this* and no one will say nope, you're a liar or an idiot or both.
That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It is amazing how *not* how it works this is. And that the guy sitting in the biggest business seat in the land either thinks this or *thinks he can say this* and no one will say nope, you're a liar or an idiot or both.
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The most important thing that needs to happen is there needs to be a much better pipeline for drafting articles.
That’s happening way too slowly right now and it would be amazing if some citizens with some legal background and the ability to write well picked up the slack.
That’s happening way too slowly right now and it would be amazing if some citizens with some legal background and the ability to write well picked up the slack.
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The most important thing that needs to happen is there needs to be a much better pipeline for drafting articles.
That’s happening way too slowly right now and it would be amazing if some citizens with some legal background and the ability to write well picked up the slack.
That’s happening way too slowly right now and it would be amazing if some citizens with some legal background and the ability to write well picked up the slack.
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It would have been helpful for the Biden DOJ to have released this information during the 1,460 days of his administration.
Perjury. Contempt of Congress. Lying to the public. It’s all there in the files.
Documents show that federal investigators knew of at least 10 co-conspirators.
Why were they never prosecuted? Why is the Admin shielding their names? Why did they lie to Congress? We will get to the bottom of this.
Documents show that federal investigators knew of at least 10 co-conspirators.
Why were they never prosecuted? Why is the Admin shielding their names? Why did they lie to Congress? We will get to the bottom of this.
December 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It would have been helpful for the Biden DOJ to have released this information during the 1,460 days of his administration.
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Please summarize the totality of these circumstances, Justice Kavanaugh.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Please summarize the totality of these circumstances, Justice Kavanaugh.
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Not a novel observation, but I'm going to run it through my students next month so I'm trying out my student-level explanation here first:
The vesting clause theory of presidential monarchism (uh, "the unitary executive") is in tension with no less than Marbury v. Madison.
I'll explain. 🧵
The vesting clause theory of presidential monarchism (uh, "the unitary executive") is in tension with no less than Marbury v. Madison.
I'll explain. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not a novel observation, but I'm going to run it through my students next month so I'm trying out my student-level explanation here first:
The vesting clause theory of presidential monarchism (uh, "the unitary executive") is in tension with no less than Marbury v. Madison.
I'll explain. 🧵
The vesting clause theory of presidential monarchism (uh, "the unitary executive") is in tension with no less than Marbury v. Madison.
I'll explain. 🧵
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Emergency scanner says 2 dead inside a Brown University building, and shooter has now been taken into custody, scene now secure.
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Emergency scanner says 2 dead inside a Brown University building, and shooter has now been taken into custody, scene now secure.
“He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.”
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.”
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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If you want to get really angry, check out this.
Guess what @raskin.house.gov didn’t do on January 6th, 2025?
Guess what @raskin.house.gov didn’t do on January 6th, 2025?
What will happen on January 6th, 2025? #election
YouTube video by Politics and Prose
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December 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
If you want to get really angry, check out this.
Guess what @raskin.house.gov didn’t do on January 6th, 2025?
Guess what @raskin.house.gov didn’t do on January 6th, 2025?
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For the record I still don’t think it’s enough. This should be a weekly thing at least.
But in one of my first ever deferences to a member, I don’t think Green needs to do this by himself. Where are his colleagues? They all should be helping share the weight.
But in one of my first ever deferences to a member, I don’t think Green needs to do this by himself. Where are his colleagues? They all should be helping share the weight.
December 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For the record I still don’t think it’s enough. This should be a weekly thing at least.
But in one of my first ever deferences to a member, I don’t think Green needs to do this by himself. Where are his colleagues? They all should be helping share the weight.
But in one of my first ever deferences to a member, I don’t think Green needs to do this by himself. Where are his colleagues? They all should be helping share the weight.
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Having watched what forcing a vote does, it’s rough on a member. All their colleagues bully them, there usually are death threats. It’s a whole thing.
He’s now done it twice this year. Also he got thrown out of the State of the Union for directly standing up to Trump.
Censured but not silenced.
He’s now done it twice this year. Also he got thrown out of the State of the Union for directly standing up to Trump.
Censured but not silenced.
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Having watched what forcing a vote does, it’s rough on a member. All their colleagues bully them, there usually are death threats. It’s a whole thing.
He’s now done it twice this year. Also he got thrown out of the State of the Union for directly standing up to Trump.
Censured but not silenced.
He’s now done it twice this year. Also he got thrown out of the State of the Union for directly standing up to Trump.
Censured but not silenced.
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Al Green is the only member I truly buy has the full conviction of moving impeachment forward.
ICYMI: Congressman Al Green Reaffirms Call for an Impeachment Vote Today After Filing Articles.
Watch Rep. Green's remarks on YouTube: youtu.be/ejtG7QjkmbI?...
Watch Rep. Green's remarks on YouTube: youtu.be/ejtG7QjkmbI?...
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Al Green is the only member I truly buy has the full conviction of moving impeachment forward.
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The senator and his colleagues pushing this repeal do not understand what they will break by dismantling Section 230. The current regime’s increasingly invasive, repressive posture toward free speech and privacy makes this prospect even more dangerous and alarming. Tell your senators to keep 230.
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The senator and his colleagues pushing this repeal do not understand what they will break by dismantling Section 230. The current regime’s increasingly invasive, repressive posture toward free speech and privacy makes this prospect even more dangerous and alarming. Tell your senators to keep 230.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Yassifying one of the most accessible literary parallels to totalitarianism, now, is shark jumping dystopia.
December 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Yassifying one of the most accessible literary parallels to totalitarianism, now, is shark jumping dystopia.
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BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
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Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
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Oh my god
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Oh my god
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They should be pounding on Trump’s culture of corruption instead of creating their own.
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
They should be pounding on Trump’s culture of corruption instead of creating their own.
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NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.