Tom Clark
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Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. www.tomclarkphd.com Go birds.
This is a violation of the Constitution’s appropriations clause.
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
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February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
This is a violation of the Constitution’s appropriations clause.
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...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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February 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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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.
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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.
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Can I get an opinion from a legal expert as to how close this comes to violating the Speech and Debate clause?
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.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Can I get an opinion from a legal expert as to how close this comes to violating the Speech and Debate clause?
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Its the one area of job growth and they're trying to deport a core source of this labor
"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.)
(The other group is the rest of us.)
February 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Its the one area of job growth and they're trying to deport a core source of this labor
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Move fast and break people
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...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Move fast and break people
This is not an indicator of an Administration that has everything under control.
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."
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This is not an indicator of an Administration that has everything under control.
If you ask the federal government for information about food, it directs you to an AI chatbot known for created child pornography.
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...
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
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
If you ask the federal government for information about food, it directs you to an AI chatbot known for created child pornography.
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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...
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.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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...
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Just another Tuesday in the U.S. these days (via @politicalwire.com)
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
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Perfect, no notes: the OpenAI Super Bowl ad costing millions is AI slop. 👇🏻
So close to setting up a chess board correctly, but the black king is on the wrong square
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Perfect, no notes: the OpenAI Super Bowl ad costing millions is AI slop. 👇🏻
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U.S. Atty Gen. Pam Bondi and FBI Dir. Kash Patel have both sworn under oath that zero evidence of other people committing crimes exists within the Epstein Files.
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
February 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
U.S. Atty Gen. Pam Bondi and FBI Dir. Kash Patel have both sworn under oath that zero evidence of other people committing crimes exists within the Epstein Files.
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
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field experiment idea - offer flight vouchers to major cities in blue states that people have only seen on Fox News/Breitbart
February 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
field experiment idea - offer flight vouchers to major cities in blue states that people have only seen on Fox News/Breitbart
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And people ask why I’m through with the BezosPost
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
February 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
And people ask why I’m through with the BezosPost
We need a serious reconsideration of how we enforce Americans’ rights. For the most part, the best you can do when the government violates your rights is getting a court to say “yes, they should not have done that, but they did.”
The Supreme Court has restricted the right to sue federal officers in part because agencies' internal investigations are an alternative way to deter misconduct. That (already farcical) justification is downright ridiculous if the feds shut those investigations down. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:11 PM
We need a serious reconsideration of how we enforce Americans’ rights. For the most part, the best you can do when the government violates your rights is getting a court to say “yes, they should not have done that, but they did.”
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Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
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We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
This is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.
🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
This is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.
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Lol
Hashtag Streisand Effect.
Hashtag Streisand Effect.
February 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Lol
Hashtag Streisand Effect.
Hashtag Streisand Effect.
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Illegally withholding billions in transportation infrastructure funding to get shit named after you isn’t just an instantly impeachable offense, it should get you laughed out of public life forever.
Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump
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February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Illegally withholding billions in transportation infrastructure funding to get shit named after you isn’t just an instantly impeachable offense, it should get you laughed out of public life forever.
Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
I don't even need to re-read the decision to get that feeling.
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I don't even need to re-read the decision to get that feeling.
Through much of our history, we’ve named things after presidents because they have used the awesome power of their office to make our lives better, and we want to honor them for it. The current occupant is instead trying to use that power to extort us into naming things for him.
February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Through much of our history, we’ve named things after presidents because they have used the awesome power of their office to make our lives better, and we want to honor them for it. The current occupant is instead trying to use that power to extort us into naming things for him.