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Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.”
#HarvardUniversity
#HarvardUniversity
April 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.”
#HarvardUniversity
#HarvardUniversity
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As far as I can tell, the first person to ever accuse him of human trafficking is Leavitt herself (I'd love to know if someone else made the claim first).
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Leavitt: "Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist. He is an MS-13 gang member. He was engaged in human trafficking." (The White House hasn't provided evidence for any of these claims ... )
April 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As far as I can tell, the first person to ever accuse him of human trafficking is Leavitt herself (I'd love to know if someone else made the claim first).
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
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It would be nice to see that segregationist record surpassed by someone advocating for good.
Cory Booker has just crossed the 19 hour line.
Five hours and 13 minutes more and he will break Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
Five hours and 13 minutes more and he will break Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor
A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It would be nice to see that segregationist record surpassed by someone advocating for good.
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NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
propub.li
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
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Here is the — entirely accurate — headline: Republican leadership just CANCELLED ALL VOTES FOR THE WEEK rather than allow a vote on a *Republican* member’s effort to allow proxy voting for new parents.
Republicans just cancelled votes in the House for the rest of the week after Democrats and a handful of Republicans took down the rule (a procedural vehicle to bring legislation to the floor).
ATTN: "grind legislative business to a halt" appreciators
ATTN: "grind legislative business to a halt" appreciators
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here is the — entirely accurate — headline: Republican leadership just CANCELLED ALL VOTES FOR THE WEEK rather than allow a vote on a *Republican* member’s effort to allow proxy voting for new parents.
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That they weren’t aware of this — or they were and just didn’t care — before shipping people to an offshore gulag is just pure, concentrated evil. People need to go to prison for this.
“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
That they weren’t aware of this — or they were and just didn’t care — before shipping people to an offshore gulag is just pure, concentrated evil. People need to go to prison for this.
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“The guards often asked flight attendants to heat up the food they brought from home... “They treated us like we were their maids…”
“In their eyes, the detainees are not the passengers,” another flight attendant said. “The passengers are the guards. And we’re there for the guards.”
“In their eyes, the detainees are not the passengers,” another flight attendant said. “The passengers are the guards. And we’re there for the guards.”
NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
propub.li
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“The guards often asked flight attendants to heat up the food they brought from home... “They treated us like we were their maids…”
“In their eyes, the detainees are not the passengers,” another flight attendant said. “The passengers are the guards. And we’re there for the guards.”
“In their eyes, the detainees are not the passengers,” another flight attendant said. “The passengers are the guards. And we’re there for the guards.”
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Wikler:
"Brad Schimel should immediately condemn Musk’s crimes and disavow his continued involvement in his campaign. ... If Elon Musk sets foot in Wisconsin, he should be placed in handcuffs and held accountable."
"Brad Schimel should immediately condemn Musk’s crimes and disavow his continued involvement in his campaign. ... If Elon Musk sets foot in Wisconsin, he should be placed in handcuffs and held accountable."
Here’s our full statement from me for @wisdems.bsky.social.
Read, share—and then if you want to help ensure that Musk’s lawbreaking to help Schimel backfires, donate and volunteer to help Susan Crawford: CrawfordForWI.com
Read, share—and then if you want to help ensure that Musk’s lawbreaking to help Schimel backfires, donate and volunteer to help Susan Crawford: CrawfordForWI.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Wikler:
"Brad Schimel should immediately condemn Musk’s crimes and disavow his continued involvement in his campaign. ... If Elon Musk sets foot in Wisconsin, he should be placed in handcuffs and held accountable."
"Brad Schimel should immediately condemn Musk’s crimes and disavow his continued involvement in his campaign. ... If Elon Musk sets foot in Wisconsin, he should be placed in handcuffs and held accountable."
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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
March 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
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March 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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President Nixon publicly suggested that Charles Manson was guilty during his trial and Manson’s lawyers moved for a mistrial because the opinion of a President on an ongoing trial would be impermissible prejudicial to a jury.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
President Nixon publicly suggested that Charles Manson was guilty during his trial and Manson’s lawyers moved for a mistrial because the opinion of a President on an ongoing trial would be impermissible prejudicial to a jury.
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GOPers have a remedy that they alone can use any day to right the ship of state and, not incidentally, massively enlarge their own individual power(s): impeach him.
The whole point of deporting someone with a soccer tattoo that's relabeled a "gang" tattoo is for Trump to assert the power to simply say someone is a gang member or terrorist *without* presenting evidence of it.
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
“Terrifying”: Trump’s Rage at Judge Unnerves GOPers as Crisis Worsens
As Trump begins defying a judge blocking deportations and Republicans balk at his demands for the judge’s impeachment, a legal expert explains why this is headed for a major crisis.
newrepublic.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
GOPers have a remedy that they alone can use any day to right the ship of state and, not incidentally, massively enlarge their own individual power(s): impeach him.
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The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here.
When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent.
1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent.
1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left
The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here.
When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent.
1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent.
1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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A friend sent me a quote recently along the lines of: how can you be on the wrong side of history when history is repeating? You’re failing an open-book test
TN bill would make it a crime to hide or harbor undocumented immigrants is making its way through the state legislature in Tennessee. This could endanger mixed-status families as well as churches/non-profits that traditionally help people no matter their status tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/t...
Tennessee bill to criminalize ‘harboring or hiding” immigrants without legal status advances • Tennessee Lookout
A bill making it a crime to harbor or hide individuals without lawful immigration status cleared a Tennessee House subcommittee Wednesday.
tennesseelookout.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A friend sent me a quote recently along the lines of: how can you be on the wrong side of history when history is repeating? You’re failing an open-book test
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This is just armed trespass and everyone involved should be in handcuffs awaiting hearing right now.
bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is just armed trespass and everyone involved should be in handcuffs awaiting hearing right now.
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"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
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As we all learned in 2022, there is approximately no slack in baby formula supply chains. Anything that disrupts formula supplies, including baseless demands to reformulate, will starve babies.
March 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As we all learned in 2022, there is approximately no slack in baby formula supply chains. Anything that disrupts formula supplies, including baseless demands to reformulate, will starve babies.
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I think we need to start operating with the understanding that this administration is lawless and will openly tell judges to go fuck themselves.
DOJ claims national security and diplomacy prevents them from disclosing further info to the Court.
Judge continues to press the DOJ for flight info.
DOJ refuses to disclose info & won’t even explain why they cannot tell the court in camera (outside of public earshot).
Judge continues to press the DOJ for flight info.
DOJ refuses to disclose info & won’t even explain why they cannot tell the court in camera (outside of public earshot).
March 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I think we need to start operating with the understanding that this administration is lawless and will openly tell judges to go fuck themselves.
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My new reporting: The heads of several US-funded international networks have told their teams to continue broadcasting, ignoring a Trump admin order, because they believe last weekend's terminations were unlawful, according to a person involved in the matter. www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/m...
Defying Trump, several US-funded international broadcasters are still reporting the news | CNN Business
The leaders of several US-funded international networks have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting, ignoring a Trump administration order, because they believe last weekend’s termina...
www.cnn.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My new reporting: The heads of several US-funded international networks have told their teams to continue broadcasting, ignoring a Trump admin order, because they believe last weekend's terminations were unlawful, according to a person involved in the matter. www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/m...
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THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.
Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand.
apnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.
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NEW — Some US Institute of Peace employees just received an email from the independent agency’s new Trump-installed president, per a copy shared with me.
They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.
They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.
March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
NEW — Some US Institute of Peace employees just received an email from the independent agency’s new Trump-installed president, per a copy shared with me.
They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.
They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.
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These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.
God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
March 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.