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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
@nbcnews.com Don’t you think your English-speaking audience for NBC Nightly News is interested in today’s s ICE raid in Camarillo? @noticiastelemundo.com is all over it for their evening broadcast.
July 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
@nbcnews.com Don’t you think your English-speaking audience for NBC Nightly News is interested in today’s s ICE raid in Camarillo? @noticiastelemundo.com is all over it for their evening broadcast.
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Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.
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For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back.
This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?
news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?
news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
April 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back.
This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?
news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?
news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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Where we are as a country
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Where we are as a country
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Forget about the legal case.
A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.
Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.
Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Forget about the legal case.
A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.
Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.
Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
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This is worse than sentence first, verdict afterwards. It’s verdict first (judicial order not to remove to El Salvador), sentence next (mistaken removal to CECOT), and finally retroactive nullification of verdict with no due process to accord with wrongful sentence. We are monsters.
NEWS: In today's declaration filed by the government in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, the govt still provides no information or past or current efforts to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Instead, an asst dir of ICE suggests that Abrego Garcia "is no longer eligible for withholding of removal."
April 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is worse than sentence first, verdict afterwards. It’s verdict first (judicial order not to remove to El Salvador), sentence next (mistaken removal to CECOT), and finally retroactive nullification of verdict with no due process to accord with wrongful sentence. We are monsters.
Unless that's paid leave, I fail to see how they have any obligation to answer questions — especially from the people seeking to make the leave permanent.
From what I can tell NEH has unilaterally and immediately canceled all its grants to state humanities councils and last night placed most or all the NEH's staff on leave. They're on leave but must remain available by phone to answer questions from the people dismantling the NEH.
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Unless that's paid leave, I fail to see how they have any obligation to answer questions — especially from the people seeking to make the leave permanent.
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This entire Greenland nonsense demonstrates the strategic stupidity of the Trump admin.
1) Crap all over NATO.
2) Realize that without NATO, our northern flank is vulnerable.
3) Let's Annex Greenland!
4) But what if Greenland doesn't want to be annexed?
5) Ummm . . .
1) Crap all over NATO.
2) Realize that without NATO, our northern flank is vulnerable.
3) Let's Annex Greenland!
4) But what if Greenland doesn't want to be annexed?
5) Ummm . . .
March 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This entire Greenland nonsense demonstrates the strategic stupidity of the Trump admin.
1) Crap all over NATO.
2) Realize that without NATO, our northern flank is vulnerable.
3) Let's Annex Greenland!
4) But what if Greenland doesn't want to be annexed?
5) Ummm . . .
1) Crap all over NATO.
2) Realize that without NATO, our northern flank is vulnerable.
3) Let's Annex Greenland!
4) But what if Greenland doesn't want to be annexed?
5) Ummm . . .
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Shameful nonsense
incredible -- JD Vance rails against Denmark from Greenland -- "Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people in Greenland."
March 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Shameful nonsense