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underrated cause of democratic backsliding is surely the gross deference courts have given the state and especially police for decades and decades

The presumption of regularity in this administration is shot, and it deserves to be so. Statements like this ought to be relevant to judicial evaluation of the legitimacy of DHS's presence in Minnesota.

As plenty of others have noted, one striking thing the Epstein files reveal is just an extraordinary level of moral rot among elites, even if you assume most of his eager friendly correspondents were not directly involved in his crimes.

Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.

Small business owners devoting themselves to their neighbors in Minneapolis. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

highly classified whistleblower complaint against Tulsi, filed with IG in May, that's not yet even reached Congress. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Shout out to my 93 yr old mom & the dozens & dozens of folks in Surprise, Arizona who protest Trump every single Saturday morning without fail. Like millions of Americans across the country, they will not let up. @maddowblog.bsky.social

Why won't liberal young women date across party lines?

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

"Every Minnesotan who is upset about the armed goons murdering their neighbors and terrorizing their communities is a paid agent of George Soros who should be imprisoned, and that's my plan for getting Minnesotans to choose me as their next senator."

Troublemaker is my middle name.

For people interested in Espionage Act prosecutions of the press or their sources -- This is a great tool that I hadn't come across before. It's a database of legal filings in such cases since 1971 (Ellsberg). Thanks to the @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/reading-room...

This is probably the story that has stuck with me the most over the last few weeks, because it's so heartbreaking and horrifying and so clearly represents thousands of personal traumas happening away from the cameras

notable that actual Jewish seniors get this in a way that the ersatz holocaust museum does not

Chris Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "If you're a conservative in this country, you should care about the fact that your govt is intentionally hurting kids. You should care about the fact that this govt is violating the 4th, 2nd, and 1st Amendment every single day. This is a lawless administration."

“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?! This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple. Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Like most of the House, Mike Johnson has only been there in the Trump era. It’s not simply that he’s abdicating his power as a coequal branch, it’s that he doesn’t seem to understand that it *is* a coequal branch.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

If he does this, and isn't impeached and removed, it's a Rubicon moment where we are no longer a republic. Sorry, I don't care how much Republicans like his policies or fear his wrath, you can't just let a president cut checks to himself from the Treasury.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

If the ICE agents' shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti had not been filmed, they would get away with murder - without anyone ever knowing the truth. Documenting the ICE crimes is incredibly important and I'm inspired by those who risk their safety to do it.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Talk about a high crime or misdemeanor. Abusing his sacred public trust, his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, to openly help himself to billions of the people’s hard-earned tax dollars. (As for the “charity” remark, please.)

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

This notebook is absolutely horrifying.

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

And ... not to belabor the obvious, but the fact that these X pleas for applicants come from the people who brought you "we only care about MERIT." Good luck getting smart and talented candidates who can pass the "I am Loyal to Dear Leader" litmus test.

It is going to take years---years!---to rebuild the United States Department of Justice after Trump is gone from office. A jewel of the justice system has been emptied out of institutional knowledge and wisdom.

SOS. Because they are under attack by their own federal government and their own president. The government to whom they pay taxes. The President who is sworn to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

My current project argues that we're experiencing democratic backsliding and the way out is through politics, not legalism. Yet even as someone with misgivings about the role of courts in our society, many judges clearly understand the moral stakes here, an awareness which itself has seemed so rare.

Remember, those daily quotas are the sick brainchild of one Stephen Miller. Just unfathomably awful that one person's hatefulness drives so much government policy. Ben Franklin said that we have a "Republic, if you can keep it." This is no way to keep it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/p...

Great thread. I’d also note that non-lawyer Stephen Miller fancies himself a legal expert too. He even founded America 1st Legal which regularly sues ppl for, well, you know. But he has no idea WTF he is talking about whenever he opines on law. For a guy so convinced of white male superiority 1/2

BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order he says will "set the groundwork to prosecute ICE & Border Patrol agents for criminal misconduct." The order directs CPD officers to document potential misconduct or criminal violations & "identify" the agents responsible. @wttw.bsky.social

DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.

A very significant vote. The $75 billion can be taken away; this marks a clear vote by the Democratic caucus to do so.

History shows a pattern here. When governments begin criminalizing the observation of dissent—using technical oversteps as justification—it’s often a warning sign. We’ve seen similar patterns precede press crackdowns in countries like Turkey, Russia, and Myanmar.

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

Looks like every DOJ lawyer who signed the Don Lemon indictment is a political appointee.

They're manufacturing illegal immigrants to abuse — stripping lawful immigrants of status and then springing the trap.