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Cigar smoker. Coffee drinker. Bibliophile. Econ major (We Are).
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Military service members are speaking out against President Trump's domestic deployment of federal troops to police protests and go after immigrants.

If you're a veteran, active duty member, or a family member of someone in the Armed Forces, send a message to the Department of Defense.
Military, Veterans, and Families in Defense of the Constitution
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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People who are immigrants deserve to be treated with compassion and humanity.
May 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Emily Feiner
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May 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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How do we make this guy famous?
This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.

It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.

An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
April 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: Mary Kate Cornett was a normal 18-year-old, thriving as a college freshman at Ole Miss. Then, a false internet rumor — amplified by ESPN’s Pat McAfee — about her and her boyfriend’s father destroyed her life. nyti.ms/3RtsbYf
April 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Tucker Carlson is now repeating unfounded allegations that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up with groups that include Hamas. The Hamas claim originated from a fake BBC-Bellingcat video created by a Russian disinformation campaign mimicking news organisations and was debunked months ago.
The fact that idiots like this scumbag, have an audience of millions, and can spew evidence free BS like this, with zero recourse!?! I finally get that a huge number of people, have no idea this stuff is spreading like a virus.
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Selection of German headlines this morning:

“It’s now the law of the jungle”

“The former leading power of the West can no longer be relied upon.”

“Now it's up to the Europeans”

“The worst case is now the new normal”

“The free world needs a new leader”
March 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“I had never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. That was a valuable lesson.” - Ulysses S Grant
February 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people”. - Ulysses S Grant
February 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
February 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." — Viktor Frankl
February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM