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Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.
This is not lawful.
This is not lawful.
April 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.
This is not lawful.
This is not lawful.
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Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
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would love to see a volume/time graph on these for the past week
April 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
would love to see a volume/time graph on these for the past week
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Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.
April 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.
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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments
BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments
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Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
April 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
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Instead of cutting the defense budget they’re doing this.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.
March 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Instead of cutting the defense budget they’re doing this.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.
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New in PN: Trump's hostile takeover of big law
"Paul, Weiss is now in the same boat as Columbia, constantly needing Trump's approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking & no acquiescence will be enough. That’s why bending the knee is a bad idea."
"Paul, Weiss is now in the same boat as Columbia, constantly needing Trump's approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking & no acquiescence will be enough. That’s why bending the knee is a bad idea."
Trump's hostile takeover of big law
Paul, Weiss's capitulation is bad news for the legal profession.
www.publicnotice.co
March 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New in PN: Trump's hostile takeover of big law
"Paul, Weiss is now in the same boat as Columbia, constantly needing Trump's approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking & no acquiescence will be enough. That’s why bending the knee is a bad idea."
"Paul, Weiss is now in the same boat as Columbia, constantly needing Trump's approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking & no acquiescence will be enough. That’s why bending the knee is a bad idea."
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@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”
GULF OF FEAR: This past week, when NASA astronauts returned to Earth, TV news networks avoided calling the body of water they splashed down in as the Gulf of Mexico.
Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
Gulf of Fear
When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it’s not just semantics—it’s a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure.
www.status.news
March 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”
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If Biden had ever tried to prevent lawyers and firms representing Jan. 6 clients from entering federal buildings, or pulled the security clearances of lawyers representing Trump, there would have been calls for impeachment THE NEXT DAY.
That’s all
That’s all
March 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If Biden had ever tried to prevent lawyers and firms representing Jan. 6 clients from entering federal buildings, or pulled the security clearances of lawyers representing Trump, there would have been calls for impeachment THE NEXT DAY.
That’s all
That’s all
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Media continues to treat it as if it isn’t its owner’s personal misinformation, hatred and election-tilting cauldron.
The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Media continues to treat it as if it isn’t its owner’s personal misinformation, hatred and election-tilting cauldron.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
I was told Republicans are now the party of the working class
A little-noticed Trump administration move will decrease the minimum wage for federal contractors, rolling back a boost that helped hundreds of thousands of workers.
www.axios.com/2025/03/21/t...
www.axios.com/2025/03/21/t...
Why Trump cut the minimum wage for federal contract workers
The administration said it would not enforce the $17.75 per hour minimum wage for these workers.
www.axios.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I was told Republicans are now the party of the working class
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This may sound fanciful, but it's actually validated by social scientific research.
One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.
One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.
Like every Dem, I have endless gripes about Dem messaging, but we have a genuine, longstanding problem of people literally not believing what Republicans are doing. They don't even believe what Republicans say they'll do!
This is also why a lot of people have trouble parsing the stuff Musk or whoever is doing to the federal government
"Why would you do this? It only hurts people, with no conceivable benefit to anyone!" yes that's why, they like hurting people as an end in itself
"Why would you do this? It only hurts people, with no conceivable benefit to anyone!" yes that's why, they like hurting people as an end in itself
March 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This may sound fanciful, but it's actually validated by social scientific research.
One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.
One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.
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The consultant class has a vested interest and a serious financial stake in maintaining the status quo of, as Murphy says “blowing all our money on 30 second ads.” Until the party breaks from that mentality nothing will get fixed.
March 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The consultant class has a vested interest and a serious financial stake in maintaining the status quo of, as Murphy says “blowing all our money on 30 second ads.” Until the party breaks from that mentality nothing will get fixed.
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It is human trafficking.
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
March 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It is human trafficking.
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People tell you you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of an unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & well, 👇🤷♂️🎯
Due process, habeas corpus, legal immigration, deportation, free speech, academic freedom, freedom of association, impoundment— amazing how many of the fundamental principles are all of a sudden at stake at Columbia in particular.
March 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
People tell you you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of an unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & well, 👇🤷♂️🎯
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If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
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Chuck Schumer says he has achieved peace in our time
March 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Chuck Schumer says he has achieved peace in our time
Schumer got me out here agreeing w Bernard.
WATCH: "A shutdown will be terrible, but our job is to put the onus on the Republican President, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the government. They are responsible. They've acted in an undemocratic, unprecedented, unilateral way," says Sen. Bernie Sanders.
March 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Schumer got me out here agreeing w Bernard.
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Schumer fucked this up so bad he turned Neera Tanden into a BernieBro:
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Schumer fucked this up so bad he turned Neera Tanden into a BernieBro:
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Dead party
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Dead party
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The republicans have lined America up for a kill shot and Democrats are making sure their rifles are shiny
it doesn't matter if the CR was bad or anywhere near good; as long as lawlessnes reigns supreme in Washington you don't vote for a single GOP bill or a single GOP nominee, why is this so fuckin' hard to understand
March 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The republicans have lined America up for a kill shot and Democrats are making sure their rifles are shiny