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A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot deny entry to people crossing the southern border to apply for asylum. The court found that neither the constitution nor federal immigration law allow the president to make that decision.
Federal judge strikes down Trump's order suspending asylum access at the southern border
The ruling was a win for immigrant advocacy groups that sued over the president's order, which they say put thousands of lives at risk.
n.pr
July 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot deny entry to people crossing the southern border to apply for asylum. The court found that neither the constitution nor federal immigration law allow the president to make that decision.
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It is depressingly plausible that Trump himself has no real idea what’s in the bill.
July 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It is depressingly plausible that Trump himself has no real idea what’s in the bill.
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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Congress needs to exercise its authority - and its duty.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Congress needs to exercise its authority - and its duty.
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Suspected assassin Vance Boelter is seen during his arrest in Sibley County following a two-day manhunt in Minnesota.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said eight teams crawled in ditches to corral Boelter before “he eventually surrendered peaceably," Fletcher said. Photo provided by Bob Fletcher.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said eight teams crawled in ditches to corral Boelter before “he eventually surrendered peaceably," Fletcher said. Photo provided by Bob Fletcher.
June 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Suspected assassin Vance Boelter is seen during his arrest in Sibley County following a two-day manhunt in Minnesota.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said eight teams crawled in ditches to corral Boelter before “he eventually surrendered peaceably," Fletcher said. Photo provided by Bob Fletcher.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said eight teams crawled in ditches to corral Boelter before “he eventually surrendered peaceably," Fletcher said. Photo provided by Bob Fletcher.
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All media needs to report this in context:
Kristi Noem outrageously threatened to “liberate” Los Angeles from its freely-elected officials and THEN when Senator Padilla started asking her about it he was manhandled and handcuffed as he approached her.
Kristi Noem outrageously threatened to “liberate” Los Angeles from its freely-elected officials and THEN when Senator Padilla started asking her about it he was manhandled and handcuffed as he approached her.
NPR watch: On ATC tonight, reporter said there was a "struggle" between Sen Padilla and the thugs, and then an "escalation of the tensions."
Jesus.
Listen for yourself: www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...
Thugs at the direction of Noem/Trump/Miller manhandled and handcuffed a US Senator.
Some "struggle"
Jesus.
Listen for yourself: www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...
Thugs at the direction of Noem/Trump/Miller manhandled and handcuffed a US Senator.
Some "struggle"
Sen. Padilla was removed from DHS presser and briefly handcuffed
California Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from the press conference after entering the room and trying to speak with the Secretary of Homeland Security.
www.npr.org
June 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
All media needs to report this in context:
Kristi Noem outrageously threatened to “liberate” Los Angeles from its freely-elected officials and THEN when Senator Padilla started asking her about it he was manhandled and handcuffed as he approached her.
Kristi Noem outrageously threatened to “liberate” Los Angeles from its freely-elected officials and THEN when Senator Padilla started asking her about it he was manhandled and handcuffed as he approached her.
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The Pentagon plans to establish a major defense partnership with the United Arab Emirates, a rare designation that could pave the way for joint arms development and closer military ties between the U.S. and a key nation in the Middle East.
Pentagon announces major defense partnership with United Arab Emirates
The Pentagon plans to establish a major defense partnership with the United Arab Emirates, a rare designation that could pave the way for joint arms development and closer military ties between the U....
www.stripes.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Pentagon plans to establish a major defense partnership with the United Arab Emirates, a rare designation that could pave the way for joint arms development and closer military ties between the U.S. and a key nation in the Middle East.
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"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." Propaganda is now part of our politics.
The President’s Propagandists
Trump’s top officials lied through their teeth about his trade war. Why? Because that’s what he hired them to do.
www.thebulwark.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." Propaganda is now part of our politics.
TRUMP HAS NOW DEPORTED MULTIPLE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN WITH CANCER
Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under "troubling circumstances," says the ACLU of Louisiana
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under "troubling circumstances," says the ACLU of Louisiana
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
TRUMP HAS NOW DEPORTED MULTIPLE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN WITH CANCER
Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under "troubling circumstances," says the ACLU of Louisiana
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under "troubling circumstances," says the ACLU of Louisiana
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this morning to launch a sit-in protest.
April 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this morning to launch a sit-in protest.
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Denver is building so many new apartments that vacancy rates reached a 16-year high and the average rent has fallen below levels seen two years ago, according to the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.
The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.
The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.
Metro Denver apartment market erases two years of rent increases
Developers continue to deliver so many new apartments that vacancy rates have reached a 16-year high.
www.denverpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Denver is building so many new apartments that vacancy rates reached a 16-year high and the average rent has fallen below levels seen two years ago, according to the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.
The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.
The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.
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"Over the course of the past three days, the Trump administration took a two-year-old U.S. citizen into custody, along with her mother and sister, and deported the child to Honduras with little to no individualized process, prompting sharp concern from a conservative federal judge on Friday."
The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday
Hours later, a conservative judge warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
www.lawdork.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
"Over the course of the past three days, the Trump administration took a two-year-old U.S. citizen into custody, along with her mother and sister, and deported the child to Honduras with little to no individualized process, prompting sharp concern from a conservative federal judge on Friday."
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I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
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NEWS: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin’s behavior in the Abrego Garcia case in a unanimous opinion rejecting DOJ’s request for the Fourth Circuit to block Judge Xinis’s order that the government “facilitate” his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin’s behavior in the Abrego Garcia case in a unanimous opinion rejecting DOJ’s request for the Fourth Circuit to block Judge Xinis’s order that the government “facilitate” his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anybody who has read a lot of appellate opinions will tell you that this is a quantity of commentary that is very much optional.
In other words, they said this because they wanted to.
In other words, they said this because they wanted to.
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Anybody who has read a lot of appellate opinions will tell you that this is a quantity of commentary that is very much optional.
In other words, they said this because they wanted to.
In other words, they said this because they wanted to.
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Breaking News: A Trump official asked the IRS to look into concerns from Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, that he "may have been inappropriately targeted" for an audit, according to an email seen by The New York Times.
Trump Official Asked I.R.S. About Audit of ‘High-Profile Friend of the President’
A Treasury Department official wrote to the I.R.S. that Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, was “concerned he may have been inappropriately targeted.”
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Breaking News: A Trump official asked the IRS to look into concerns from Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, that he "may have been inappropriately targeted" for an audit, according to an email seen by The New York Times.
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No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
April 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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This is the first habeas petition to directly seek the release of a Venezuelan detained at CECOT.
NEW: We @immcouncil.org just joined @nipnlg.bsky.social and @ccrjustice.org to file a habeas petition seeking an order requiring the Trump admin to end the indefinite imprisonment of Edicson Quintero, sent to El Salvador on March 15 with NO DUE PROCESS.
Like so many others, he deserves to be freed.
Like so many others, he deserves to be freed.
April 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is the first habeas petition to directly seek the release of a Venezuelan detained at CECOT.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and remains imprisoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and remains imprisoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
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Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
RFK pushes to find 'environmental' cause of autism, calls rising rates an 'epidemic'
Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.