laurence alterman
@laurencealterman.bsky.social
retired prosecutor and retired public defender. live in new orleans and grew up in Connecticut. have different views about where the law and society trying to head back to the times when 1950s was society
Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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April 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy
The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
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March 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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One of America’s most important allies now views the United States as the same as Russia.
❗️The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Washington was "no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow," — 🇩🇪German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
February 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One of America’s most important allies now views the United States as the same as Russia.
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If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.
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DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy.
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy.
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
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But why? It’s a mystery!
(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.
#OligarchEra 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/musk...
#OligarchEra 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/musk...
February 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
But why? It’s a mystery!