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jimcallaghan42.bsky.social
Just about the most important summary of the state of the USA today.
piperformissouri.bsky.social Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Jun 27
The only person to have universal rights in this country is a straight, white, able-bodied, Christian man.
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.
June 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
jimcallaghan42.bsky.social
Powerful take on Musk and Rubio and the whole cabal, and the cost on lives from the thuggery of the Trump regime.

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June 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies.

They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
A scatterplot titled “Agencies Facing DOGE Layoffs vs. GOP Budget Increases” shows how liberal-leaning federal agencies are more likely to face layoffs, while conservative-leaning ones receive budget increases. The x-axis indicates perceived ideological leaning (from liberal on the left to conservative on the right), and the y-axis (log scale) shows agency size by number of staff. Each dot represents a federal agency and is colored by status: • Red = DOGE layoffs • Green = Budget increases • Gray = No layoffs Key findings visible in the plot: • 9 out of 10 agencies with documented layoffs are liberal-leaning. • Large liberal agencies like HHS, EPA, NIH, USAID, and the Department of Education face layoffs. • Conservative agencies like the Department of Defense (DOD), ICE, and CBP receive budget increases. The note cites data from over 1,500 federal executives and analysis of agencies with 500+ staff. Author: Adam Bonica.
June 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.

0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.

All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
June 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
Not just student data. DOJ apparently requested any email or text where faculty or staff discussed the Trump DEI EOs -- something that would target lots of pure political speech.
The department also told Harvard to produce all texts, emails, Signal chats and other correspondence from current or former employees discussing Mr. Trump’s executive orders earlier this year that revoked policies to support minorities and ended the government’s support of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
May 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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atrupar.com
Leavitt: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked thousands of students visas from campuses where these pro-Palestini-- pro-Hamas terrorists ... "
May 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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ilyasomin.bsky.social
My thoughts on @davidjbier.bsky.social's excellent @cato.org study showing that most Alien Enemies Act deportees had no criminal record and many (perhaps majority) entered US legally: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Most Migrants Deported to Imprisonment in El Salvador Under the Alien Enemies Act Had no Criminal Record and Many had Entered the US Legally
An important new study by my Cato Institute colleague David Bier shows that most of the Venezuelan migrants deported to imprisonment in El Salvador
reason.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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skiles.blue
The Bambergers hired with "no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex."

For a while they tried working out of Princeton University, but the uni wouldn't let them hire Black people. So they left and built a new building out in the suburbs.

So, woke DEI stuff that fascists still hate!
May 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
BREAKING: A few hours ago Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was RELEASED!

But the truth is he should have never been arrested — the Trump administration is out of control‼️
May 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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changethesystem.bsky.social
Mayor Baraka from Newark, NJ holds a press conference detailing how GEO Group has opened an ICE detention facility without permits or inspections. They can’t even verify if there are detainees inside because GEO Group is refusing to allow city officials inside.
May 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Glasgow's one and only Statue of Liberty on the top of a tenement on corner of Queen's Drive and Langside Road. It dates from 1886, the same year her more famous sister was dedicated in New York.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #statueofliberty #queenspark #architecturephotography
May 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hopefully she’s learned her lesson that, here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, expressing an opinion in a newspaper can get you thrown in jail.
May 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Russia isn’t winning. They’re burning through men, tanks older than your dad, and begging North Korea for troops. That’s not strength—it’s desperation. We didn’t let them win the Cold War, and we won’t let them fake a win now.

youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...
Still Think Russia Is Defeating Ukraine? Watch This
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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fisherdanar.bsky.social
The Trump Administration is now punishing law enforcement agents that tried to show solidarity and support in summer 2020 after George Floyd was murdered.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
FBI reassigns agents from iconic photo of them kneeling during George Floyd protest | CNN Politics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed ...
amp.cnn.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Briones’ decision is the first time ICE’s allegations that someone was in Tren de Aragua and subject to the Alien Enemies Act was tested in court — and ICE utterly failed the test!

“This Court takes clear offense to Respondents wasting judicial resources to admit to the Court it has no evidence”
This Court takes clear offense to Respondents wasting judicial resources to admit to the Court it has no evidence, yet seek to have this Court determine Petitioner Sanchez Puentes is "guilty by association." This Court found no need to even allow closing arguments as to Petitioner Sanchez Puentes at the April 23, 2025 Habeas Corpus Hearing.
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
A New Mexico judge and his wife have also been arrested, for allegedly hiding a TdA gang member in their home.

Given recent history, it’s probably best to take the “hiding” and “gang member” allegations with a fistful of salt.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
New Mexico judge and wife arrested for hiding an alleged Venezuelan gang member
‘There is no way in the world that I would have allowed my grandkids to have any contact with the boys if I had sensed danger,’ the ex-judge wrote
www.the-independent.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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hipcrimevocab.net
IF YOU ARE BEING DETAINED:

1. Shut the fuck up.

2. Say these words, VERBATIM: "I want you to provide me a lawyer. I will not say anything else until I have had a chance to consult with a lawyer."

3. Seriously, shut up.
hipcrimevocab.net Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · Apr 23
1. Ask: "Am I being detained? Am I free to leave?" If they refuse to answer that you are detained, keep walking.

If they try to physically impede you, go the other way. If they grab you, get loud and ask people to videotape it and call the police.
brahn.bsky.social Benjamin Rahn @brahn.bsky.social · Apr 23
I (& others) would be grateful for expert advice on:

1. Best way to respond/intercede when people claiming to be LEOs refuse to identify themselves or produce warrants

2. How to proactively ensure that encounters are documented, given the (apparent) attacks on security systems described here.
April 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Romero: When the Supreme Court said, “You now have to file habeas petitions in each of the different jurisdictions,” most people would’ve paused—but we got up and did it. We started filing habeas after habeas in every one of those district courts.
April 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
jimcallaghan42.bsky.social
It’s not turning into a police state, of course it isn’t.
robertmaguire.bsky.social Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · Apr 23
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.” Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges. “I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’” Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.” The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
During the Friday night hearing, DOJ's Ensign told Judge Boasberg "he understood there would be no flights Friday night and that he was 'not aware of any plans' for flights on Saturday ...

AT THE SAME TIME, the ICE buses were nearing their approach to the airport exit."
As legal fight raged, ICE buses filled with Venezuelans heading toward airport turned around, video shows
At least 28 detainees were placed on buses Friday evening at ICE’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and then driven toward an airport about an hour away.
www.nbcnews.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Incredible piece about Arturo Suárez, who I’ve been thinking about a lot. He was a struggling artist trying to make a career for himself while his country collapsed around him. Like millions of Venezuelans, he migrated.

ICE arrested him in North Carolina while he was trying to film a music video.
tomphillips.bsky.social Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · Apr 20
Last week I flew to Chile to meet the wife and baby daughter of one of the Venezuelan migrants thrown in jail in El Salvador after being deported by Trump - a talented singer called Arturo Suárez. “If something happens to my husband, I will hold Trump
& Bukele responsible,” she told
me 💔
‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate
Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prison
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
A U.S. law bars the State Dept. from $$$ support of “'units of foreign security forces' — which can include military and law enforcement staff in prisons — facing credible allegations of gross human rights violations." Such as the money going to El Salvador's CECOT? [@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social]
Experts: $6 million payment to Salvadoran prison likely violates U.S. human rights law - Maryland Matters
The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from here. But in doing so, it may be violating a law that bars financial support of “units of foreign security force...
marylandmatters.org
April 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM