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Tom Clark
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Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. www.tomclarkphd.com Go birds.

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Reposted by Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, James Goodwin

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h
SCOTUS is dealing with problems that arise from justices’ ownership of individual stocks.

What did the court do to address this ethical question? Did the justices agree to divest from individual stock ownership? Of course not.

Parties are directed to include stock ticker symbols in their briefs.
SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't sell his stocks
Roberts and Alito are the only two justices who own individual stocks. Also: A new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin's removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument.
www.lawdork.com

Reposted by Paul Krugman, Christian Odendahl, Richard S.J. Tol , and 7 more

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14h
Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Hassett: "The basic theory of President Trump's tariffs is sure, we're importing stuff from China, but we've got producers in US who make stuff, maybe at alightly higher place. If we bring stuff home, create demand, then that will hurt China & drive up wages & American consumers will be better off."

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Tom Clark, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 23h
Just once I’d love these guys to come back from Europe and say “Had a great time in Europe” instead of endorsing a Fourth Reich

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Steve Peers , and 3 more

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
An actual video put out by the department in charge of public health
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
The US Department of Health and Human Services just released this video.

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Tom Clark, Rebecca Tushnet , and 3 more

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
Washington Post. The former private prison exec behind ICE’s immigrant detention surge David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer.

Reposted by Tom Clark, David R. Miller

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 1d
Free speech for everyone!*

*Except Democratic senators, candidates, Don Lemon, ICE protesters, college students, colleges, law firms, TV hosts, judges, and anyone else Trump’s DoJ/FCC/DoE/DHS feels like targeting.

Do I have that right?

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 2d
1. If we have the follow the law, we can’t do what we’re doing is not an argument yiu want to hear from the govt.

2. Neither is suggesting it’s no big deal for law enforcement to lie under oath if they’re just shooting non-Americans.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Tom Clark, Leigh Sparks , and 8 more

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 2d
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com

Reposted by David R. Miller

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 2d
It bears noting that the placards referencing the history of slavery at the President's House were recommended and paid for by two consecutive Republican-controlled Congresses (108th and 109th), during a Republican Administration (GW Bush). Trump tore them down, illegally.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Tom Clark, David R. Miller , and 8 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Laurent Pech , and 2 more

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Rebecca Solnit, Will Jennings , and 23 more

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 2d
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Reposted by Tom Clark

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 2d
Age 10
From: Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 8:59:02 PM Subject: To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> DSC06964.JPG Age 10

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d
I’ll repeat myself that I’m amazed this kind of stuff hasn’t caused more outrage and reaction than it has.

I’ve spent a lot of time watching gun violence ravage the country that is justified as the price of guarding against tyranny. It turns out, we’re pretty ok with tyranny.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d
As part of its established procedures, ICE sends agents to pound on the doors of protesters at home and tell them "We know who you are and we're coming for you." The tactics of incompetent state terrorism.
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Ben H. Ansell, Tom Clark , and 2 more

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4d
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.

Reposted by Mark A. Lemley, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d
As part of its established procedures, ICE sends agents to pound on the doors of protesters at home and tell them "We know who you are and we're coming for you." The tactics of incompetent state terrorism.
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by David R. Miller

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 5d
This is a violation of the Constitution’s appropriations clause.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Reposted by Richard Price, Tom Clark, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 12 more

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 6d
It's really amazing how many times Trump's policy choices align with Project 2025, given that he didn't know anything about it. It's almost as if....hear me out...he was lying.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Michael D. McDonald

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d
Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.
A printout of Rep. Pramila's search results "thank you for a fun night -- your littlest girl was a little naughty" and it gets worse from there

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Tom Clark, Robert C. Richards , and 4 more

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 7d
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Philip N. Cohen

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7d
"This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance to children and youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and all other individuals and families."

(The other group is the rest of us.)

Reposted by Tom Clark

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 7d
NEWS: DOJ lawyer who tried & failed to indict 6 Dem lawmakers over military video runs an active dance photography studio & worked for US Atty Pirro decades ago. Grand jury rejected indictment from lawyers w/ no prior DOJ backgrounds. Experts were walled off. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Pirro Enlists Dance Photographer-Lawyer in Lawmaker Video Case
Washington’s US Attorney Jeanine Pirro tapped a dance photographer who worked for her decades ago as one of the prosecutors who tried—and failed—to convince a grand jury to indict six Democratic lawma...
news.bloomberglaw.com

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 7d
This is not an indicator of an Administration that has everything under control.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Mattias Hallquist, John R. Hutchinson , and 18 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 8d
If you ask the federal government for information about food, it directs you to an AI chatbot known for created child pornography.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Christina Pagel

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 8d
Just another Tuesday in the U.S. these days (via @politicalwire.com)

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Laia Balcells , and 3 more

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 8d
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
mnhousedfl.bsky.social Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 8d
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer , and 1 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok
The inclusion of Elon Musk’s chatbot in the government website follows backlash over the chatbot creating millions of sexualized images of women and children.
www.nextgov.com