Stephen Ferguson
@stephenferguson.bsky.social
Yale Law School '25 | Hermeneutics | Lonergan | AMDG
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Source also confirmed to me Stephen Miller is close to the groups behind Canary Mission and Betar.
This is from 2018, about the board of the nonprofit believed to operate Canary Mission in Israel.
This is from 2018, about the board of the nonprofit believed to operate Canary Mission in Israel.
April 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Source also confirmed to me Stephen Miller is close to the groups behind Canary Mission and Betar.
This is from 2018, about the board of the nonprofit believed to operate Canary Mission in Israel.
This is from 2018, about the board of the nonprofit believed to operate Canary Mission in Israel.
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1: "I am absolutely convinced that an unprecedented and very dangerous line has been crossed”
2: "We cannot and will not comply with this unjust law”
3 wrote that Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs”
4 asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
2: "We cannot and will not comply with this unjust law”
3 wrote that Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs”
4 asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
April 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
1: "I am absolutely convinced that an unprecedented and very dangerous line has been crossed”
2: "We cannot and will not comply with this unjust law”
3 wrote that Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs”
4 asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
2: "We cannot and will not comply with this unjust law”
3 wrote that Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs”
4 asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
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The question isn’t whether a federal court can order the Salvadoran government to release Garcia; it can’t.
It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.
It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.
It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing
April 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The question isn’t whether a federal court can order the Salvadoran government to release Garcia; it can’t.
It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.
It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.
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Only “cringe” can ultimately defeat evil, only acts of sincerity without cynicism or ironic distance
It’s easy to shit on Corey Booker for being corny or not substantively stopping anything, and yea obviously it can’t begin and end with this. But we’ve been screaming for somebody to do something and he’s trying to do something, so that’s good I think.
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Only “cringe” can ultimately defeat evil, only acts of sincerity without cynicism or ironic distance
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obama was pilloried for months for having attended reverend jeremiah "god damn america" wright's church, meanwhile jd vance can have dms full of in-depth discussions about esoteric nazism and vril, and nobody says a word. don't let anybody tell you that racism isn't real
once again begging a single mainstream outlet to talk in-depth about jd vance's many, many, many, many, many, many groyper friends
March 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
obama was pilloried for months for having attended reverend jeremiah "god damn america" wright's church, meanwhile jd vance can have dms full of in-depth discussions about esoteric nazism and vril, and nobody says a word. don't let anybody tell you that racism isn't real
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1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
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Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
March 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
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The placement of "trans issues" here is, without exaggeration, one of the most depraved things I've ever seen in the pages of this publication.
Of course the NYT sees the "DEI" stuff positively & is neutral on anti-trans discrimination
March 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The placement of "trans issues" here is, without exaggeration, one of the most depraved things I've ever seen in the pages of this publication.
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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
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They’re really going for it:
A position that no government lawyer ever took during the first Trump administration because they felt they couldn’t get away with it is suddenly legally defensible.
Government says the plaintiffs’ argument from precedent amounts to “overheated rhetoric.”
A position that no government lawyer ever took during the first Trump administration because they felt they couldn’t get away with it is suddenly legally defensible.
Government says the plaintiffs’ argument from precedent amounts to “overheated rhetoric.”
![A screenshot of a legal brief by the new Trump administration, which reads:
“Plaintiffs Are Not Likely to Succeed on the Merits.
As to the merits, the Citizenship Clause provides: "All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. Under the plain terms of the Clause, birth in the United States does not by itself entitle a person to citizenship. The person must also be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Id. Contrary to Plaintiffs'
overheated rhetoric, that phrase does not mean simply being subject to federal jurisdiction to tax or regulate someone. Among the many reasons why Plaintiffs' position is incorrect, the term "subject to the
jurisdiction thereof' in the Fourteenth Amendment harks to tandem language in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, ch. 31, 14 Stat. 27. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Act and the Amendment coterminously, explaining that the Act served as the "initial blueprint" for the Amendment, Gen. Bldg. Contractors Ass'n v. Pennsylvania, 458 U.S. 375, 389 (1982), and that the Amendment in turn "provide[d] a constitutional basis for protecting the rights set out" in the Act, McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 775 (2010). The Act provided, as
relevant here, that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." § 1, 14 18 Stat. at 27 (emphasis added). The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the Fourteenth Amendment is best read to exclude the same individuals who were excluded by the Act—i.e., those who are "subject to any foreign power" and "Indians not taxed."”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreieafsvjxyibvlct5blxosxyxtlprvilbbzuk3mgutkvbp3txb2d54@jpeg)
January 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
They’re really going for it:
A position that no government lawyer ever took during the first Trump administration because they felt they couldn’t get away with it is suddenly legally defensible.
Government says the plaintiffs’ argument from precedent amounts to “overheated rhetoric.”
A position that no government lawyer ever took during the first Trump administration because they felt they couldn’t get away with it is suddenly legally defensible.
Government says the plaintiffs’ argument from precedent amounts to “overheated rhetoric.”
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I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.
January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.
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Nothing shows the fundamental dishonesty of the “anti-DEI” folks like Hegseth getting hearings to run the nation’s largest bureaucracy. He’s an unqualified drunken defender of war criminals, credibly accused of sexual assault and reported for extremism by his military peers. He is merit’s inverse.
"Pete Hegseth says US military bases should restore names of Confederate generals." Hegseth hates diversity programs but loves Confederate generals who killed Americans in defense of white supremacy and chattel slavery. Any Democratic Senator who supports him needs to go! www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/p...
Defense pick Pete Hegseth repeatedly criticized removing names of Confederate generals from US bases | CNN Politics
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the nam...
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Nothing shows the fundamental dishonesty of the “anti-DEI” folks like Hegseth getting hearings to run the nation’s largest bureaucracy. He’s an unqualified drunken defender of war criminals, credibly accused of sexual assault and reported for extremism by his military peers. He is merit’s inverse.
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look at the dates on these articles. (my point is not that anyone in weimar germany was reading the NYT. My point is about approaches to coverage that are stupid and evil)
January 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
look at the dates on these articles. (my point is not that anyone in weimar germany was reading the NYT. My point is about approaches to coverage that are stupid and evil)
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"More Republican legislatots have been arrested for bathroom misconduct than trans people"
www.complex.com/life/a/amand...
www.complex.com/life/a/amand...
More Republican legislators arrested for bathroom miscond...
More Republican lawmakers face bathroom misconduct arrest...
www.complex.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"More Republican legislatots have been arrested for bathroom misconduct than trans people"
www.complex.com/life/a/amand...
www.complex.com/life/a/amand...
Judge Reeves wrong that "the First Amendment does not permit the government to chill speech or compel affirmance [sic] of a belief with which the speaker disagrees"
Education isn't public discourse. Rather, it regularly requires certain speech, which is why there's no 1A defense to poor grades
Education isn't public discourse. Rather, it regularly requires certain speech, which is why there's no 1A defense to poor grades
Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students
The decision threw out the administration’s proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Judge Reeves wrong that "the First Amendment does not permit the government to chill speech or compel affirmance [sic] of a belief with which the speaker disagrees"
Education isn't public discourse. Rather, it regularly requires certain speech, which is why there's no 1A defense to poor grades
Education isn't public discourse. Rather, it regularly requires certain speech, which is why there's no 1A defense to poor grades
Paging Ross Douthat
🇺🇸🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán's biggest political win might be infiltrating the GOP's Trump wing, aided by US pundits and grifters on his payroll.
📉☹️ A prime example is the fake narrative of Hungary as a pro-family success story while birth and marriage rates are falling as corruption drains state coffers.
📉☹️ A prime example is the fake narrative of Hungary as a pro-family success story while birth and marriage rates are falling as corruption drains state coffers.
January 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Paging Ross Douthat
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After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
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And there's evidence to the contrary! Trump did surprisingly well with young men but he did not win those who said things like "I worry I can't afford a house or kids" -- he won those who said things like "trans men aren't really men"
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/new-survey...
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/new-survey...
January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And there's evidence to the contrary! Trump did surprisingly well with young men but he did not win those who said things like "I worry I can't afford a house or kids" -- he won those who said things like "trans men aren't really men"
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/new-survey...
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/new-survey...
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THREAD. It will be interesting to see how the public's understanding of the propaganda term "terrorism" evolves as prosecutors and police try to brand Luigi Mangione a "terrorist."
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
THREAD. It will be interesting to see how the public's understanding of the propaganda term "terrorism" evolves as prosecutors and police try to brand Luigi Mangione a "terrorist."
One of the great Justices
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
—Louis Brandeis, Former Justice of the Supreme Court
—Louis Brandeis, Former Justice of the Supreme Court
December 19, 2024 at 12:17 AM
One of the great Justices
December 18, 2024 at 3:28 AM
President Masaryk once told Karel Čapek, who is the source of the word "robot," “My socialism is simply love of neighbour, humanity."
Through cyberpunk, Howell helps us think through what it means to be human, to live humanely, even as we're slowly being turned into the machines we live on
Read it
Through cyberpunk, Howell helps us think through what it means to be human, to live humanely, even as we're slowly being turned into the machines we live on
Read it
December 17, 2024 at 5:41 AM
President Masaryk once told Karel Čapek, who is the source of the word "robot," “My socialism is simply love of neighbour, humanity."
Through cyberpunk, Howell helps us think through what it means to be human, to live humanely, even as we're slowly being turned into the machines we live on
Read it
Through cyberpunk, Howell helps us think through what it means to be human, to live humanely, even as we're slowly being turned into the machines we live on
Read it
From New York Times v Sullivan to ABC < Trump
1/ I'm old enough to remember--and to have worked on--cases where newspapers vigorously defended themselves against defamation cases instead of folding before the defendant was even deposed apnews.com/article/abc-...
ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit
ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been f...
apnews.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
From New York Times v Sullivan to ABC < Trump