Lynne Lawlor
@lynnelawlor.bsky.social
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Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J
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It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
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"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty."
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty."
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
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"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
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This has been the plan since the outset, to make a Sovereign Wealth Fund AKA slush fund. I have yet to see anyone explain where the proceeds from the tariffs are going, and I suspect it’s the same place.
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has been the plan since the outset, to make a Sovereign Wealth Fund AKA slush fund. I have yet to see anyone explain where the proceeds from the tariffs are going, and I suspect it’s the same place.
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AYFKM.
The draft I-140G form suggests that applicants can pay their $1 million "gift" in crypto, a policy that I am sure will not entail any negative consequences whatsoever omb.report/icr/202504-1...
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
AYFKM.
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This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
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Q: Has Hegseth told you why he hasn't released the video of the second strike?
TRUMP: He hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you're bringing it up. Are you with CNN?
Q: I am with CNN
TRUMP: You work for the Democrats
TRUMP: He hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you're bringing it up. Are you with CNN?
Q: I am with CNN
TRUMP: You work for the Democrats
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Q: Has Hegseth told you why he hasn't released the video of the second strike?
TRUMP: He hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you're bringing it up. Are you with CNN?
Q: I am with CNN
TRUMP: You work for the Democrats
TRUMP: He hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you're bringing it up. Are you with CNN?
Q: I am with CNN
TRUMP: You work for the Democrats
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The Trump DOJ is trying to legally erase the fact that it weaponized a thousand FBI agents to scour Epstein files, specifically hunting for Trump's name. This is a blatant, massive cover-up operation using your government to protect one man.
Trump admin files motion to strike Epstein files story from court documents
The Justice Department has filed a motion to have key pieces of information struck from a lawsuit arising from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. National security expert Marcy Wheeler noticed the filing on Tuesday in a lawsuit between the DOJ and the government watchdog organization Ameri...
www.alternet.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Trump DOJ is trying to legally erase the fact that it weaponized a thousand FBI agents to scour Epstein files, specifically hunting for Trump's name. This is a blatant, massive cover-up operation using your government to protect one man.
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Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement
The measure restricts immigration arrests around state courthouses. Republicans have criticized the law and suggested it would face legal challenges.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.
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Religious freedom is a lot of things, but never a right to harm others.
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Religious freedom is a lot of things, but never a right to harm others.
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Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the full Venezuela boat strike video. He’s backpedaling because the truth is ugly and he knows it looks like a war crime.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the full Venezuela boat strike video. He’s backpedaling because the truth is ugly and he knows it looks like a war crime.
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Churches are a key part of the Undocumented Underground that is confronting ICE.
One volunteer told me: "The Christian right, the Christian nationalists, they tend to focus on, like, the Old Testament or Paul. They skip right through the Gospels and Jesus." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
One volunteer told me: "The Christian right, the Christian nationalists, they tend to focus on, like, the Old Testament or Paul. They skip right through the Gospels and Jesus." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
Inside the Secret Network Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants Amid Trump’s ICE Onslaught
They call them the “forgotten migrants.” Of the approximately 11 million undocumented...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Churches are a key part of the Undocumented Underground that is confronting ICE.
One volunteer told me: "The Christian right, the Christian nationalists, they tend to focus on, like, the Old Testament or Paul. They skip right through the Gospels and Jesus." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
One volunteer told me: "The Christian right, the Christian nationalists, they tend to focus on, like, the Old Testament or Paul. They skip right through the Gospels and Jesus." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
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Some of the same churches that are part of the Undocumented Underground in New York played key roles in the fight against slavery.
They are springing back into action to defend migrants.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
They are springing back into action to defend migrants.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
Inside the Secret Network Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants Amid Trump’s ICE Onslaught
They call them the “forgotten migrants.” Of the approximately 11 million undocumented...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some of the same churches that are part of the Undocumented Underground in New York played key roles in the fight against slavery.
They are springing back into action to defend migrants.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
They are springing back into action to defend migrants.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
Ick!
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Ick!
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In tests in four cities across the U.S., nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart. They found differences in item after item.
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In tests in four cities across the U.S., nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart. They found differences in item after item.
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Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show
Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show
President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook
Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling “mortgage fraud” when done by political rivals, records show.
ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that within seven weeks of each other in late 1993 and early 1994, the president obtained loans for neighboring Palm Beach homes, pledging each would be his primary dwelling. Instead of living in them, though, he rented both out as investment properties. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show
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Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.
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Ukraine’s future must be decided by Ukrainians—not by an unaccountable real-estate-developer-turned-“special envoy,” and certainly not in a back room with Russia while Ukraine is sidelined.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Zelensky Rejects Ceding Land as U.S. Seeks ‘Compromise’ on Russian Demand
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ukraine’s future must be decided by Ukrainians—not by an unaccountable real-estate-developer-turned-“special envoy,” and certainly not in a back room with Russia while Ukraine is sidelined.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
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All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.
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A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
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Pete Hegseth has been proudly posting videos of deadly boat strikes for months.
If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...
If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Pete Hegseth has been proudly posting videos of deadly boat strikes for months.
If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...
If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Detainees, often with no criminal record, were subjected to what is unambiguously torture at Ron DeSantis' so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. There need to be criminal prosecutions
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Detainees, often with no criminal record, were subjected to what is unambiguously torture at Ron DeSantis' so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. There need to be criminal prosecutions
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hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.