Andrea Kane
@andreakane.bsky.social
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I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
Reposted by Andrea Kane
National Law Day of Action -- May 1st
Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public
lawdayofaction.org
Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public
lawdayofaction.org
April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
National Law Day of Action -- May 1st
Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public
lawdayofaction.org
Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public
lawdayofaction.org
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"'For anybody who's doubting justice, this is a light of hope, a hope and faith in the justice system in America,' he said..."
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-c...
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-c...
'I am not afraid of you,' Columbia student says of Trump after release from ICE
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested by ICE agents following his citizenship interview, has been ordered released while his case proceeds.
abcnews.go.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"'For anybody who's doubting justice, this is a light of hope, a hope and faith in the justice system in America,' he said..."
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-c...
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-c...
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subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius.
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
Subaru Pulls Canadian Production From US As Trump’s Tariffs Deal A Heavy Blow | Carscoops
The automaker will now build more cars for Canada in Japan rather than in Indiana
www.carscoops.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius.
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
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This is well worth reading:
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos
The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.
slate.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is well worth reading:
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Excellent overview & analysis of the administration’s track record in court to date
"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges."
www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...
136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions
President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.
www.stevevladeck.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Excellent overview & analysis of the administration’s track record in court to date
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1. The Social Security Administration and DOGE are GASLIGHTING AMERICANS.
They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news.
Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED.
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They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news.
Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED.
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
popular.info
March 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
1. The Social Security Administration and DOGE are GASLIGHTING AMERICANS.
They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news.
Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED.
🧵
They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news.
Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED.
🧵
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Excellent explainer from @SteveVladeck.Bsky.social on why immigrants, including the men deported under Alien Enemy Act, are entitled to due process.
Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.
www.stevevladeck.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Excellent explainer from @SteveVladeck.Bsky.social on why immigrants, including the men deported under Alien Enemy Act, are entitled to due process.
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A lesson in right vs wrong:
Using government power to target political enemies is wrong.
Standing up for those who are targeted is right.
Bowing down is wrong.
Refusing to be deterred and stating tall is right.
Silence is wrong.
Peaceful opposition is right.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...
Using government power to target political enemies is wrong.
Standing up for those who are targeted is right.
Bowing down is wrong.
Refusing to be deterred and stating tall is right.
Silence is wrong.
Peaceful opposition is right.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...
Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institution...
www.cnn.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A lesson in right vs wrong:
Using government power to target political enemies is wrong.
Standing up for those who are targeted is right.
Bowing down is wrong.
Refusing to be deterred and stating tall is right.
Silence is wrong.
Peaceful opposition is right.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...
Using government power to target political enemies is wrong.
Standing up for those who are targeted is right.
Bowing down is wrong.
Refusing to be deterred and stating tall is right.
Silence is wrong.
Peaceful opposition is right.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
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I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers.
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
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If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an *avalanche* of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!
"They have one for $35,000, which is pretty low" -- Trump during his Tesla promotional event with Elon Musk at the White House says he bought a cybertruck for his granddaughter Kai
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an *avalanche* of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!
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they get it. good for them.
Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
March 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
they get it. good for them.
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In preparation for the newscast I host, trying to just resolve the relatively straightforward question of what the WH’s current position is on whether the new round of tariffs are happening and it’s…impossible.
March 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
In preparation for the newscast I host, trying to just resolve the relatively straightforward question of what the WH’s current position is on whether the new round of tariffs are happening and it’s…impossible.
Reposted by Andrea Kane
Just another way to kick people off social security and make it harder for those eligible to receive them. There won’t be a website, office to go to and nor will there be anyone available to assist over the phone to comply with the SSA being gutted. Garbage 🤬
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
Social Security: Retirees must meet this requirement or lose benefits
More than 70 million Americans rely on Social Security payments each month.
www.newsweek.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Just another way to kick people off social security and make it harder for those eligible to receive them. There won’t be a website, office to go to and nor will there be anyone available to assist over the phone to comply with the SSA being gutted. Garbage 🤬
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
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Welcome to our new Bluesky account where we share our weekly actions over the highway on Rt4 in Paramus and elsewhere. Help us on our mission to awaken people to actively saving our country. Stay tuned!
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Welcome to our new Bluesky account where we share our weekly actions over the highway on Rt4 in Paramus and elsewhere. Help us on our mission to awaken people to actively saving our country. Stay tuned!
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
#resist
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
Reposted by Andrea Kane
BREAKING: A judge just ruled that the US DOGE Service is likely subject to FOIA and ordered the preservation of documents and expedited processing of CREW’s FOIA requests.
Judge rules DOGE likely subject to FOIA, must give CREW documents - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Judge Cooper ruled that US DOGE Service is likely subject to FOIA and issued a preliminary injunction requiring the preservation of documents.
www.citizensforethics.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
BREAKING: A judge just ruled that the US DOGE Service is likely subject to FOIA and ordered the preservation of documents and expedited processing of CREW’s FOIA requests.
Reposted by Andrea Kane
I confess I really, really, really, really did Nazi this one coming
I step away from the computer for a few hours and while I'm away I see the richest man in the world, and our co-president, was busy debating the whiteness of my friend and colleague Bill Kristol.
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I confess I really, really, really, really did Nazi this one coming
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Yes, this is exactly the question that we all need to be asking right now. One of the IGs that Trump fired was the one at the Defense Department, and he was examining Musk's breach of national security reporting protocol for Pentagon contractors. Now Dems tell me they fear this probe is dead:
Waste and fraud? Has the Pentagon dropped its investigation into Musk's abuse of its own reporting rules?
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yes, this is exactly the question that we all need to be asking right now. One of the IGs that Trump fired was the one at the Defense Department, and he was examining Musk's breach of national security reporting protocol for Pentagon contractors. Now Dems tell me they fear this probe is dead:
Reposted by Andrea Kane
It's a coup.
The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014.
This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*
#resist
This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*
#resist
February 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's a coup.
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My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
If I were the one who had made up the title of this episode, I would have added “—Or Not” to it. And with some emphasis on the “not.”
How to Stop the Dismantling of Our Government
George Conway explains.
www.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
Reposted by Andrea Kane
Yesterday elected Democrats were blocked from entering a fourth federal agency building. This to me is literally the definition of a coup unfolding.
I am urging you all to pay attention, call your two Senators and Representative, especially if they are Republicans!
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I am urging you all to pay attention, call your two Senators and Representative, especially if they are Republicans!
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February 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Yesterday elected Democrats were blocked from entering a fourth federal agency building. This to me is literally the definition of a coup unfolding.
I am urging you all to pay attention, call your two Senators and Representative, especially if they are Republicans!
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I am urging you all to pay attention, call your two Senators and Representative, especially if they are Republicans!
1/2
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Last night Elon Musk moved to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His team is now inside, and he posted “CFPB RIP 🪦” on X.
This agency has saved Americans billions.
DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.
This agency has saved Americans billions.
DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.
February 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Last night Elon Musk moved to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His team is now inside, and he posted “CFPB RIP 🪦” on X.
This agency has saved Americans billions.
DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.
This agency has saved Americans billions.
DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about dismantling the government so Musk and his billionaire friends can take control.