Lindsey Taylor
@lindsey-taylor.bsky.social
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"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 AM
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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! I've been banging this drum for months
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
September 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
! I've been banging this drum for months
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
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A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trump Just Took a Major Step Toward a Nightmare Scenario for Trans Americans Under the Guise of “Public Safety.” Don’t Be Fooled.
If we don’t change course soon, it will be too late.
slate.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
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If you've been scammed by student loan servicers or have problems with your loans, the Trump administration is abandoning you.
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you've been scammed by student loan servicers or have problems with your loans, the Trump administration is abandoning you.
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This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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The family of Virginia Giuffre:
"Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
"Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
NBC News confirms: JD Vance will meet tonight at his residence with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top Trump officials to discuss the Epstein scandal. @msnbc.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The family of Virginia Giuffre:
"Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
"Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
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Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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At the newsletter: Ari Aster made a movie about how Both Sides are being led astray by Internet Extremism. I watched it in a heavily Trumpy small-town movie theater and had a panic attack. No paywall: jude-doyle.ghost.io/on-see/
On Seeing "Eddington" In Trump Country
Jude Is Afraid.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
August 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
At the newsletter: Ari Aster made a movie about how Both Sides are being led astray by Internet Extremism. I watched it in a heavily Trumpy small-town movie theater and had a panic attack. No paywall: jude-doyle.ghost.io/on-see/
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Today is a good day — any day is a good day — to read and share this February resignation letter from SDNY prosecutor Hagan Scotten to Emil Bove.
It’s the type of thing you show your kids as an example of how to be.
It’s the type of thing you show your kids as an example of how to be.
July 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today is a good day — any day is a good day — to read and share this February resignation letter from SDNY prosecutor Hagan Scotten to Emil Bove.
It’s the type of thing you show your kids as an example of how to be.
It’s the type of thing you show your kids as an example of how to be.
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Both the Trump administration and Florida have been lying through their teeth about who is being detained at the Everglades detention camp.
Immigration court hearings inexplicably canceled for ‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees
Cases contradict the governor’s assertion that everyone at the facility has “final removal orders.”
From @hatzelvela.bsky.social
www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/i...
Cases contradict the governor’s assertion that everyone at the facility has “final removal orders.”
From @hatzelvela.bsky.social
www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/i...
Immigration court hearings inexplicably canceled for ‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees
Aside from access to detainees, an immigration attorney believes clients’ court hearings are being canceled because they’re detained at “Alligator Alcatraz.”
www.nbcmiami.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Both the Trump administration and Florida have been lying through their teeth about who is being detained at the Everglades detention camp.
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Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community.
There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women.
Absolute cowards.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women.
Absolute cowards.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard College Closes Diversity Offices, Reassigns Staff to New ‘Harvard Foundation’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard College will close its offices for minority students, LGBTQ students, and women and fold their staff under a new Office of Culture and Community, according to a Wednesday message from College ...
www.thecrimson.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community.
There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women.
Absolute cowards.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women.
Absolute cowards.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.
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“Now, churches can endorse political candidates and not lose their tax-exempt status, but secular nonprofits cannot. The First Amendment does not stand for the proposition that religious groups get extra-special treatment from the government.”
New in PN: Goodbye, separation of church and state
"Now only churches get the benefit of not paying taxes *and* get to work to influence elections. Not because Congress changed the law. Just because the executive branch threw it in a random court filing. That's not how democracy is meant to work."
"Now only churches get the benefit of not paying taxes *and* get to work to influence elections. Not because Congress changed the law. Just because the executive branch threw it in a random court filing. That's not how democracy is meant to work."
Goodbye, separation of church and state
Churches now have extra special speech rights, thanks to Trump.
www.publicnotice.co
July 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Now, churches can endorse political candidates and not lose their tax-exempt status, but secular nonprofits cannot. The First Amendment does not stand for the proposition that religious groups get extra-special treatment from the government.”
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This week, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, author of @lawdorknews.bsky.social, joins us to unpack some of the terrible SCOTUS chaos this term and what it means for LGBTQI+ & reproductive rights: www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo... #podcast
![Quote graphic featuring gold, yellow, and dark purple paper scrapbook elements in the background, as well as a sunflower, ladybug, and sparrow. The quote reads, in a typewriter-inspired typeface: “The message from the [U.S. Supreme] Court was pretty clear. It was: if you have… anti-LGBTQ “concerns,” the Court will listen and find a way to protect them. But if you have actual concerns for LGBTQ people, your children, the Court will just ignore them and refuse to take up the case.” The quote is attributed to Chris Geidner, Author of Law Dork.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmwp5xej3maoj4nbkx4khggc/bafkreiby7owjllpsdeg7geeouonme7nd7w42iykyur5dpup6d4habqt2gq@jpeg)
July 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, author of @lawdorknews.bsky.social, joins us to unpack some of the terrible SCOTUS chaos this term and what it means for LGBTQI+ & reproductive rights: www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo... #podcast
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Trump brazenly lies: "It's the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country." (Polls show that the bill is actually about 20 points underwater.)
July 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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It’s wild how much more interested in speculating on this when the first flights happened vs how interested in talking about it now that it’s confirmed.
Again: *the federal government is dropping charges against gang members so that they will not reveal those gang members have cut a deal to back their dictator friend politically*
July 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It’s wild how much more interested in speculating on this when the first flights happened vs how interested in talking about it now that it’s confirmed.
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If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
June 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.
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🚨BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy after a private intelligence briefing on the Iran attacks:
“It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian program by a handful of months. I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.”
It was just lies.
“It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian program by a handful of months. I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.”
It was just lies.
June 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🚨BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy after a private intelligence briefing on the Iran attacks:
“It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian program by a handful of months. I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.”
It was just lies.
“It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian program by a handful of months. I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.”
It was just lies.
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A man that's been president for a total of more than 4.5 years still believes those claiming asylum are people being released from mental health facilities.
Trump: "People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? Insane asylum, that's a mental institution on steroids. During the campaign I'd talk about the late great Hannibal Lecter."
June 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A man that's been president for a total of more than 4.5 years still believes those claiming asylum are people being released from mental health facilities.