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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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I've been banging on about this, so I guess I'll do so again & let others talk about the substantive horrors of SCOTUS's order allowing ICE to deport people to third countries with no warning:
SCOTUS has again thrown lower-court judges under a ginormous bus & rewarded DOJ for defying court orders.
SCOTUS has again thrown lower-court judges under a ginormous bus & rewarded DOJ for defying court orders.
June 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I've been banging on about this, so I guess I'll do so again & let others talk about the substantive horrors of SCOTUS's order allowing ICE to deport people to third countries with no warning:
SCOTUS has again thrown lower-court judges under a ginormous bus & rewarded DOJ for defying court orders.
SCOTUS has again thrown lower-court judges under a ginormous bus & rewarded DOJ for defying court orders.
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Congratulations to John Roberts, who will now surely displace Taney as the most scathingly hated Chief Justice in the history books, and to the Roberts Court, which m will go down as the one that probably did the most of any to destroy what is good about this country
Justice Sotomayor ends her dissent by saying the Supreme Court has permitted "thousands [to] suffer violence in farflung locales," an action which "rewards lawlessness" by the Trump administration.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
June 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Congratulations to John Roberts, who will now surely displace Taney as the most scathingly hated Chief Justice in the history books, and to the Roberts Court, which m will go down as the one that probably did the most of any to destroy what is good about this country
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It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
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SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law
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The one silver lining of the Roberts Court is that it will destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court to such an extent that liberals can no longer believe that it will be our salvation.
June 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The one silver lining of the Roberts Court is that it will destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court to such an extent that liberals can no longer believe that it will be our salvation.
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I was skeptical once, but this is where I am now. This court is both corrupt and so terrified of losing its legitimacy that it refuses to confront the president. Which of course only hastens the loss of its legitimacy.
There should be an earnest call to pack the courts by Dem leadership. It should be a thought out campaign to explain to the American people why it’s necessary.
It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
June 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I was skeptical once, but this is where I am now. This court is both corrupt and so terrified of losing its legitimacy that it refuses to confront the president. Which of course only hastens the loss of its legitimacy.
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Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
June 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery.
They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.
They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery.
They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.
They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.
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WATCH: “I FEEL BETRAYED.”
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
WATCH: “I FEEL BETRAYED.”
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
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if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
The FTC confirms our scoop about an extraordinary political condition on this ad merger, aimed at preventing "collusion or coordination to direct advertising away from media publishers based on the publishers’ political or ideological viewpoints." www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
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Free speech for conservatives is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/kate...
The FTC confirms our scoop about an extraordinary political condition on this ad merger, aimed at preventing "collusion or coordination to direct advertising away from media publishers based on the publishers’ political or ideological viewpoints." www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
June 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Free speech for conservatives is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/kate...
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It gets harder by the day not to characterize this administration as distinctly “north korean” when the White House senior staff is about fifteen inches away from declaring Trump invented the moon and the stars, and currently argue things like that he invented in Geico Gecco
Leavitt: "Nobody knows what it means to accomplish peace through strength better than President Trump. He is the one who came up with that motto and that foreign policy doctrine."
June 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It gets harder by the day not to characterize this administration as distinctly “north korean” when the White House senior staff is about fifteen inches away from declaring Trump invented the moon and the stars, and currently argue things like that he invented in Geico Gecco
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Bernie heads to Johnson’s backyard
June 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Bernie heads to Johnson’s backyard
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It's actually *incredibly useful* that Trump is palpably jealous of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and desperately wants one himself.
June 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's actually *incredibly useful* that Trump is palpably jealous of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and desperately wants one himself.
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Something I’d note is that while there is criminal immunity for “official acts” for the president, no such immunity exists for the deputy chief of staff.
the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term
The president ’s deputy chief of staff has played an outsize role in immigration—and amassed more power than almost anyone else at the White House.
www.wsj.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Something I’d note is that while there is criminal immunity for “official acts” for the president, no such immunity exists for the deputy chief of staff.
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the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term
The president ’s deputy chief of staff has played an outsize role in immigration—and amassed more power than almost anyone else at the White House.
www.wsj.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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COOK POLITICAL: ".. five new recent polls show significant opposition to the legislation .. opposition is twice as high as support for it, and more Americans think that the legislation will hurt them than think it will help them."
@cookpolitical.com
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...
@cookpolitical.com
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...
Republicans Have An Uphill Climb To Sell Voters On Their ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
Congressional Republicans are banking that their signature tax and budget legislation will define President Donald Trump's economic legacy and win over wallet-wary voters ahead of the midterms. The tr...
www.cookpolitical.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
COOK POLITICAL: ".. five new recent polls show significant opposition to the legislation .. opposition is twice as high as support for it, and more Americans think that the legislation will hurt them than think it will help them."
@cookpolitical.com
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...
@cookpolitical.com
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...
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The Trump administration is kidnapping and trying to deport American citizens who look “foreign.”
No warrant. No due process. No rights.
Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass.
#MAGAKidnappers
No warrant. No due process. No rights.
Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass.
#MAGAKidnappers
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Trump administration is kidnapping and trying to deport American citizens who look “foreign.”
No warrant. No due process. No rights.
Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass.
#MAGAKidnappers
No warrant. No due process. No rights.
Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass.
#MAGAKidnappers
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Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
June 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
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Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.
June 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.
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Hochul should've shown up with a dozen New York state troopers or an Army National Guard infantry platoon.
Until Democrats demonstrate the will to use defensive force, the Trump administration will keep arresting Democrats.
Until Democrats demonstrate the will to use defensive force, the Trump administration will keep arresting Democrats.
NY Governor Kathy Hochul inside 26 Federal Plaza now, seeking answers from DHS/ICE about the arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, who is still being detained. @thecity.nyc "How long is this going to take, I don't think he has a long rap sheet," Hochul says to agents.
June 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hochul should've shown up with a dozen New York state troopers or an Army National Guard infantry platoon.
Until Democrats demonstrate the will to use defensive force, the Trump administration will keep arresting Democrats.
Until Democrats demonstrate the will to use defensive force, the Trump administration will keep arresting Democrats.
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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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this is on me, but i genuinely didn’t expect thune to be even more shameless than mcconnell
FOX: The Committee for a Responsible Budget came out today and said it will add $15 trillion to the debt
THUNE: This will reduce the deficit, not increase it
THUNE: This will reduce the deficit, not increase it
June 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
this is on me, but i genuinely didn’t expect thune to be even more shameless than mcconnell
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Harry Enten on Trump's bill: "The amount of disapproval for this bill -- holy cow, my goodness gracious! We're talking about 29 points underwater ... we're talking about a negative 41 net favorability rating among independents. You rarely ever see proposed pieces of legislation as unpopular"
June 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Harry Enten on Trump's bill: "The amount of disapproval for this bill -- holy cow, my goodness gracious! We're talking about 29 points underwater ... we're talking about a negative 41 net favorability rating among independents. You rarely ever see proposed pieces of legislation as unpopular"