Ana Garces
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"Your department is out of control."
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Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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May 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Your department is out of control."
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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She's right. You're a lawyer for god's sake, it's your job to fight. The last three months have shown that some people in power are simply too soft for the moment. Toughen up or step aside and let someone with some backbone take over.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday night urged the legal profession to toughen up. "If you’re not used to fighting, and losing battles, then don’t become a lawyer," she said. Her remarks came against the backdrop of immense stress on lawyers from the Trump administration.
Justice Sotomayor Says Lawyers Must ‘Stand Up’ and ‘Fight This Fight’
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
She's right. You're a lawyer for god's sake, it's your job to fight. The last three months have shown that some people in power are simply too soft for the moment. Toughen up or step aside and let someone with some backbone take over.
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NEW: The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday.
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday
A conservative judge on Friday warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
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April 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
NEW: The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday.
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
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This is antithetical to our American values. It is terrorizing communities and families— being a US citizen doesn’t protect you from the Trump regime. It is vile.
Disappearing mothers and toddlers, denying them access to lawyers, deporting them without due process - this is not what a democracy does to its citizens and families and to their kids.
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - America's Voice
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 25, 2025 Contact: Arianna Rosales, National Immigration Project, media@nipnlg.org Jesse Vad, ACLU of Louisiana, jesse@or-nola.org ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Child...
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April 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is antithetical to our American values. It is terrorizing communities and families— being a US citizen doesn’t protect you from the Trump regime. It is vile.
Everything is upside down, but happy Perfect Date to all of us who celebrate!
a woman is holding a microphone and wearing a sash that says ' rhol ' on it
ALT: a woman is holding a microphone and wearing a sash that says ' rhol ' on it
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April 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Everything is upside down, but happy Perfect Date to all of us who celebrate!
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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The moral depravity of the moment is inseparable from attacks on the rule of law and the deep constitutional rot in the United States.
March 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The moral depravity of the moment is inseparable from attacks on the rule of law and the deep constitutional rot in the United States.
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Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.
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Why are we now using the words “abducting,” “kidnapping,” and “disappearing” for ICE arrests of educated English speakers? I’m glad to see the brutality called out, but I wish there were the same outrage when Mexican laborers are detained at home in front of their kids.
March 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why are we now using the words “abducting,” “kidnapping,” and “disappearing” for ICE arrests of educated English speakers? I’m glad to see the brutality called out, but I wish there were the same outrage when Mexican laborers are detained at home in front of their kids.
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WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The only thing you'll gain by not standing up to this is a boot on your neck.
I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
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Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers
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March 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The only thing you'll gain by not standing up to this is a boot on your neck.
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Now that Trump has proven to be a ruthless autocrat, too many have grown timid and silent.
That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do.
Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...
That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do.
Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...
I Worry, but I Fight
From Marc | Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.
www.democracydocket.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Now that Trump has proven to be a ruthless autocrat, too many have grown timid and silent.
That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do.
Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...
That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do.
Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...
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“But the scare tactics didn’t work the way Republicans hoped they would. The mayors sounded like reasonable political leaders who are struggling to deal as best they can with a real problem — while Republicans did not sound like political leaders in search of a solution."
“Mayor Michelle Wu came to a Wednesday congressional hearing with her infant daughter, Mira; Ash Wednesday ashes on her forehead; and some killer attack lines about President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan.”
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‘Shame on him for lying about my city’: Wu defends Boston before Congress - The Boston Globe
Republican scare tactics didn’t work at Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's immigration hearing before Congress.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“But the scare tactics didn’t work the way Republicans hoped they would. The mayors sounded like reasonable political leaders who are struggling to deal as best they can with a real problem — while Republicans did not sound like political leaders in search of a solution."
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Only a person without any character strengths would find empathy to be a weakness. This is about running. This is not about running.
March 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Only a person without any character strengths would find empathy to be a weakness. This is about running. This is not about running.
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A dozen large white eggs in the US reached a record of over $8 in February, from $2.97 a year ago.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A dozen large white eggs in the US reached a record of over $8 in February, from $2.97 a year ago.
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Good for the ABA for speaking out again:
"We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not."
"We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not."
The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession
Three weeks ago, the American Bar Association spoke to you about values that guide us. We called upon every lawyer to insist that the government adhere to four major principles of law that have guided...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Good for the ABA for speaking out again:
"We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not."
"We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not."
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The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...
Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says
New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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A key observation about nearly every one of the arguments against birthright citizenship; that all of them simply ignore the actual text of the Constitution in favor of a version that exists purely in their own heads.
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A key observation about nearly every one of the arguments against birthright citizenship; that all of them simply ignore the actual text of the Constitution in favor of a version that exists purely in their own heads.
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It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
Trump’s absurd proposals distract from his damaging actions | Editorial
Hullabaloo over Donald Trump's North American trade war feint and Gaza takeover drew attention away from the real dirty work: a purge of federal workers and Elon Musk's unchecked power.
www.inquirer.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...