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Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
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Urban Ecologist | University of Maryland | cities, climate resilience, green infrastructure, soils, novel ecosystem services | fun: sci-fi photos music | he/him
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Let’s see the IRB
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This would be a major setback! Do you know if there’s any opportunity to reorganize like the National Nature Assessment has? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward. (Gift Article)
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review.

"History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but
this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."
What if the Government later determines that it sent one of these detainees to CECOT in error? Or a court eventually decides that the President lacked authority under the Alien Enemies Act to declare that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating or attempting an “invasion” against the territory of the United States? The Government takes the position that, even when it makes a mistake, it cannot retrieve individuals from the Salvadoran prisons to which it has sent them. See Defendant’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition in Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25–cv–951 (D Md., Mar. 31, 2025), ECF Doc. 11, at 7–9. The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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We need to find a better word than "benefits". I paid in to SS for 53 years and I won't live long enough to get even half what I paid in back. That's fine - it's how SS should work, but I'm sick of aholes like Elmo calling them "benefits" as if he's giving me something.
March 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM