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Please join us! This year the national conference comes to Texas!
August 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Please join us! This year the national conference comes to Texas!
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I’ve met FSOs who learned the language, understood the culture, and stayed long after the rest of Washington had lost interest.
When you fire 1,300 of them, you don’t just eliminate jobs.
You gut the connective tissue of American soft power.
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When you fire 1,300 of them, you don’t just eliminate jobs.
You gut the connective tissue of American soft power.
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Firing the Front Line
Why Hollowing Out the State Department Destroys American Power
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July 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’ve met FSOs who learned the language, understood the culture, and stayed long after the rest of Washington had lost interest.
When you fire 1,300 of them, you don’t just eliminate jobs.
You gut the connective tissue of American soft power.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
When you fire 1,300 of them, you don’t just eliminate jobs.
You gut the connective tissue of American soft power.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
Inconsistency, thy name is SCOTUS.
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again www.stevevladeck.com/p/167-the-in...
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again www.stevevladeck.com/p/167-the-in...
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again
Comparing Monday's unexplained grant of emergency relief in the Department of Education downsizing case to how the justices handled President Biden's student loan program is ... telling.
www.stevevladeck.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Inconsistency, thy name is SCOTUS.
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again www.stevevladeck.com/p/167-the-in...
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again www.stevevladeck.com/p/167-the-in...
Sergeant Clovis Lee May, of Deming, New Mexico, was fatally wounded on May 22, 1969 in the Quang Tin province of South Vietnam. He was 24 years old. REMEMBERED.
May 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sergeant Clovis Lee May, of Deming, New Mexico, was fatally wounded on May 22, 1969 in the Quang Tin province of South Vietnam. He was 24 years old. REMEMBERED.
What They Died For
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What They Died For
Publisher's Roundup 19, Memorial Day Edition
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May 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What They Died For
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At Omaha beach today. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Bradley did not ask about minerals.
May 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
At Omaha beach today. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Bradley did not ask about minerals.
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The intent isn't to send her to prison for committing a crime, it's to frighten and intimidate the courts. It's going to make people think twice before they do anything that may anger Trump and his administration.
April 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The intent isn't to send her to prison for committing a crime, it's to frighten and intimidate the courts. It's going to make people think twice before they do anything that may anger Trump and his administration.
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Attys in Abrego Garcia case seeking conference with Judge Xinis at 1pm today due Trump Adm allegedly having filed "nothing of substance" in response to interrogatories & requests for production.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Attys in Abrego Garcia case seeking conference with Judge Xinis at 1pm today due Trump Adm allegedly having filed "nothing of substance" in response to interrogatories & requests for production.
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A reminder that none of these daily status updates are accomplishing their primary purpose of updating Judge Xinis on the steps the Trump admin is taking to secure Abrego Garcia's release, because as far as we know, it is taking no such steps. (More soon on this.)
April 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A reminder that none of these daily status updates are accomplishing their primary purpose of updating Judge Xinis on the steps the Trump admin is taking to secure Abrego Garcia's release, because as far as we know, it is taking no such steps. (More soon on this.)
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It’s easy to feel like the planet is on fire — because, well, sometimes it literally is.
But it’s not all doom: Innovators are reimagining how we power our lives, nature is pulling off surprising comebacks, cities are cleaning their air and nations are opening their wallets.
But it’s not all doom: Innovators are reimagining how we power our lives, nature is pulling off surprising comebacks, cities are cleaning their air and nations are opening their wallets.
This Earth Day, there are some reasons to be hopeful about the climate
Amid devastating environmental forecasts, there are things to be hopeful about.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It’s easy to feel like the planet is on fire — because, well, sometimes it literally is.
But it’s not all doom: Innovators are reimagining how we power our lives, nature is pulling off surprising comebacks, cities are cleaning their air and nations are opening their wallets.
But it’s not all doom: Innovators are reimagining how we power our lives, nature is pulling off surprising comebacks, cities are cleaning their air and nations are opening their wallets.
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How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García?
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
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Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
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April 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García?
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...
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BREAKING: read this from the latest, striking, 4th Circuit decision rejecting Trump Admin's efforts in Abrego-Garcia case.
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-- on Substack
The 4th Circuit issues a compelling clarion call, flat out denying the Trump Admin’s effort to reverse the MD federal judge overseeing the Abrego-Garcia case.
“The government is asserting a right to...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
BREAKING: read this from the latest, striking, 4th Circuit decision rejecting Trump Admin's efforts in Abrego-Garcia case.
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Wow, 4th circuit did not hold back in this opinion, see 🧵
Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit:
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
April 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Wow, 4th circuit did not hold back in this opinion, see 🧵
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“The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court.” @jvl.bsky.social
Bring. Him. Home.
Our cause is here; our time is now.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court.” @jvl.bsky.social
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It's just very very hard to litigate against a party that is not acting in good faith and doesn't care about the penalties the courts have to offer.
April 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It's just very very hard to litigate against a party that is not acting in good faith and doesn't care about the penalties the courts have to offer.
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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"We are outsourcing torture and murder. What kind of president, what kind of political party, can look at that with satisfaction?" And what American can not at least wonder about their own security?
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-any-of...
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-any-of...
Are Any of Us Safe Now?
The Trump administration claims the power to punish “offenders” with no due process.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"We are outsourcing torture and murder. What kind of president, what kind of political party, can look at that with satisfaction?" And what American can not at least wonder about their own security?
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-any-of...
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-any-of...
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This is a lie. Here's how Mr. Abrego gets back.
1. Bukele releases him from CECOT.
2. The US gives him humanitarian parole as part of the court order requiring them to facilitate his return.
3. His family buys him a plane ticket.
4. He flies home.
THIS ISN'T HARD.
1. Bukele releases him from CECOT.
2. The US gives him humanitarian parole as part of the court order requiring them to facilitate his return.
3. His family buys him a plane ticket.
4. He flies home.
THIS ISN'T HARD.
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is a lie. Here's how Mr. Abrego gets back.
1. Bukele releases him from CECOT.
2. The US gives him humanitarian parole as part of the court order requiring them to facilitate his return.
3. His family buys him a plane ticket.
4. He flies home.
THIS ISN'T HARD.
1. Bukele releases him from CECOT.
2. The US gives him humanitarian parole as part of the court order requiring them to facilitate his return.
3. His family buys him a plane ticket.
4. He flies home.
THIS ISN'T HARD.
Big Law capitulation has many root causes.
A major cause is a belief in most Big Law circles that the main criteria for “top firm” or blue chip status, which formerly was client service and clients’ success …
… is now the almighty PPP.
(No, not the Payroll Protection Program. IYKYK.)
A major cause is a belief in most Big Law circles that the main criteria for “top firm” or blue chip status, which formerly was client service and clients’ success …
… is now the almighty PPP.
(No, not the Payroll Protection Program. IYKYK.)
April 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Big Law capitulation has many root causes.
A major cause is a belief in most Big Law circles that the main criteria for “top firm” or blue chip status, which formerly was client service and clients’ success …
… is now the almighty PPP.
(No, not the Payroll Protection Program. IYKYK.)
A major cause is a belief in most Big Law circles that the main criteria for “top firm” or blue chip status, which formerly was client service and clients’ success …
… is now the almighty PPP.
(No, not the Payroll Protection Program. IYKYK.)
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Yeah, they are literally defying the Supreme Court.
I hope Xinis' hardest decision is deciding precisely WHO to hold in contempt, not whether.
I hope Xinis' hardest decision is deciding precisely WHO to hold in contempt, not whether.
April 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Yeah, they are literally defying the Supreme Court.
I hope Xinis' hardest decision is deciding precisely WHO to hold in contempt, not whether.
I hope Xinis' hardest decision is deciding precisely WHO to hold in contempt, not whether.
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2. DOJ's refusal to provide updates on efforts to get Abrego Garcia released from custody is also an affront to what the unanimous Supreme Court ordered.⬇️
I am sure Judge Xinis will take action, now with the backing of both the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court.
I am sure Judge Xinis will take action, now with the backing of both the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court.
April 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
2. DOJ's refusal to provide updates on efforts to get Abrego Garcia released from custody is also an affront to what the unanimous Supreme Court ordered.⬇️
I am sure Judge Xinis will take action, now with the backing of both the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court.
I am sure Judge Xinis will take action, now with the backing of both the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court.
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Judge Xinis is now having to deal with an emboldened DOJ on steroids. DOJ pulled that SS/classified 'trick' in the JJG case before CJ Boasberg. Perhaps there will be another trip up and down in Abrego Garcia's case. Hopefully, the trip will start with contempt.
NEW: A second filing today from the DOJ tells Judge Xinis that in their view, since Mr. Abrego is in Bukele's custody, she can't order them to do anything further to bring him back since that's not what "facilitate" means.
They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.
They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.
April 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Judge Xinis is now having to deal with an emboldened DOJ on steroids. DOJ pulled that SS/classified 'trick' in the JJG case before CJ Boasberg. Perhaps there will be another trip up and down in Abrego Garcia's case. Hopefully, the trip will start with contempt.