Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety.
Policing, consent, soccer, food. He/him.
Policing, consent, soccer, food. He/him.
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Really important point about the way RFK and his pals have implemented anti-vax ideology at the FDA.
From Alec Gaffney at @agencyiq.bsky.social:
"There doesn’t seem to be a coherent approach to evidentiary requirements at the FDA at this time, other than one that demonizes vaccines."
"There doesn’t seem to be a coherent approach to evidentiary requirements at the FDA at this time, other than one that demonizes vaccines."
February 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Really important point about the way RFK and his pals have implemented anti-vax ideology at the FDA.
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This is horrific
I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This is horrific
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Instead we get a bunch of “why not let it go?”
learning Abt American black history should radicalize people because 80% of it is just-
"yeah these white people committed hate crimes and mostly got away with it while black families and communities were left in shambles and still haven't had reparations met decades later"
"yeah these white people committed hate crimes and mostly got away with it while black families and communities were left in shambles and still haven't had reparations met decades later"
February 13, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Instead we get a bunch of “why not let it go?”
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Props to everyone who recognized this story as bullshit from the jump. The heuristic “they’re lying” will almost always get you to the correct answer
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Props to everyone who recognized this story as bullshit from the jump. The heuristic “they’re lying” will almost always get you to the correct answer
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he asked me how two dads have a baby earlier and I was like thank fucking god an easy one
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
he asked me how two dads have a baby earlier and I was like thank fucking god an easy one
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
This might be the single most disturbing thing I've ever read in my life.
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
February 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM
This might be the single most disturbing thing I've ever read in my life.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
A hit dog will holler
Rep. Goldman: “Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?…Is Nazi Germany one?”
Lyons: “Yes.”
Goldman: “Is the Soviet Union one?"
Lyons: “Yes, but this is the wrong type of questioning you should be asking me.”
Lyons: “Yes.”
Goldman: “Is the Soviet Union one?"
Lyons: “Yes, but this is the wrong type of questioning you should be asking me.”
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A hit dog will holler
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I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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Schumer’s focus-grouped “gentle reforms” message on ICE is going to age like milk as more horror stories from these camps come out.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Schumer’s focus-grouped “gentle reforms” message on ICE is going to age like milk as more horror stories from these camps come out.
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The $1.65 million a day spent on the National Guard deployment is about $600 million annualized. For comparison, the approved FY26 budget for Economic Security Services, which includes TANF, is $305 million.
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The $1.65 million a day spent on the National Guard deployment is about $600 million annualized. For comparison, the approved FY26 budget for Economic Security Services, which includes TANF, is $305 million.
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This paper looks to be an exemplar of the "argument that seems self-evident but only after someone else thought of it and wrote it out" genre. It's not that the argument is obvious (derogatory) but so powerful and intuitive that you slap your forehead after reading it (laudatory). Excited to dig in!
Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social!
Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This paper looks to be an exemplar of the "argument that seems self-evident but only after someone else thought of it and wrote it out" genre. It's not that the argument is obvious (derogatory) but so powerful and intuitive that you slap your forehead after reading it (laudatory). Excited to dig in!
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Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
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A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
‘Black’ banned from flyers for FAMU College of Law Black History Month event, student says
A student at FAMU College of Law says the school told her to remove the word 'black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law.
www.clickorlando.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
February 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
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"Now Lewis George says that if she’s elected mayor, she’ll set out to make child care universal and affordable, part of a broader plan she’s rolling out to bring down everyday costs for D.C. residents." - @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news
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Janeese Lewis George wants affordable child care for DC
It’s not free, and her plan faces financial challenges.
51st.news
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
"Now Lewis George says that if she’s elected mayor, she’ll set out to make child care universal and affordable, part of a broader plan she’s rolling out to bring down everyday costs for D.C. residents." - @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news
51st.news/janeese-lewi...
51st.news/janeese-lewi...
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The America we were taught about in school wasn’t real, but I want it to be and so do 200 million of my friends
February 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The America we were taught about in school wasn’t real, but I want it to be and so do 200 million of my friends
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The change in facial expression as he realizes what's happening lol
February 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The change in facial expression as he realizes what's happening lol
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The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
Flooding the zone with shit, but for the legal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to Brink
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
The change in facial expression as he realizes what's happening lol
February 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The change in facial expression as he realizes what's happening lol