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The BBB gives $45 Billion for expansion of immigration detention (up from $3.9 billion this year) to create a system of mass detention larger than the federal prison system. What is cut instead? $11 billion for Pell grants; $23 billion for nursing home staff; $40 billion for food stamp matching fund
July 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
For “One First,” I wrote up why the federal courts absolutely *do* have the power to order the U.S. government to take all possible steps to bring back an individual who was wrongfully removed from the country—and what it would mean if they didn’t:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/138-abrego...
138. Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power
Federal courts don't have jurisdiction over foreign prisons. That doesn't mean that they're powerless when the U.S. government wrongly removes someone from the United States.
www.stevevladeck.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Who did this?
April 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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theonion.com
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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immlawachall.bsky.social
Absolutely grotesque.
March 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
niallsmart.bsky.social
s/communist/woke
brookejarvis.bsky.social Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Mar 3
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
March 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM