please don't miss this development as the War on Terror keeps morphing: the first sentencing of "antifa terrorism" was handed down today: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I can't even make a joke here bc this is just objectively funnier than anything I could say

“No American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald Trump, especially in his second term in office.”

The Coke Zero people are so needlessly smug. I don’t drink Diet Coke because I want Coca Cola with zero calories. I drink Diet Coke because there is something wrong with me; something deeply broken inside of me; something that will never truly be healed.

the DNC report is obviously a dumpster fire but I still feel a little bad for the author who is experiencing my personal nightmare (the entire Internet roasting something I wrote)

The designation of one of the world’s most prominent human rights advocates was baseless and shocking; its great news that the decision has (for now at least) been rescinded. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Grateful that the GOAT @attackerman.bsky.social covered my new paper and added his expert commentary throughout (with which I am indeed in full agreement) 👇

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Read the research, “Terrorizing Migrants: Five Ways Post-9/11 Legal Precedents Paved the Way for Anti-Immigrant Actions in the United States.” costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/terror...

Neither Congress nor the courts have meaningfully checked presidents or held them accountable for their expansive claims of war authorities, national security powers, and counterterrorism mechanisms to justify discriminatory practices against noncitizens, and especially people of color. [5/7]

The report looks at five legal precedents borrowed from the so-called “War on Terror” that have helped the government ramp up aggressive immigration enforcement efforts to surveil, detain, harass, and deport foreign nationals inside the US. [2/7] costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/terror...

Much gratitude to @costsofwar.bsky.social for publishing my newest paper, highlighting how legal tools that started as post-9/11 counterterrorism abuses are now being weaponized further for Trump's anti-immigrant agenda:

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

Sen. Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined his Republican colleagues in voting to sink a Democrat-led bid to stop Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold.

The expenses were “enough to fund Medicaid for 500,000 people for an entire year.”

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

lol are we really still doing ticking time bomb fanfic in the year of our Lord 2026??

Great new stat from @senatebudget.bsky.social: of the $140 billion that Trump & Republicans gave ICE & CBP in the Big Beautiful Bill, $103 billion is still unobligated as of the end of March. Now they’re asking for another $70 billion even though about 75% of the OBBBA money still remains unused.

Thank goodness they provided some context by skipping over lots of history.

this should be good www.state.gov/releases/off...

The Iranian-flagged cargo ship ignored “repeated warnings” because the U.S. blockade is an illegal and illegitimate act of war. This is arguably piracy.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

What's that?? Dems gave up exactly the right amount of votes to sink one of these AGAIN?? Such a crazy coincidence how that keeps happening.

The murder spree continues. The death toll is now up to 178.

We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

UPDATE: 36 Senators vote to block $150M of 1000-lb bombs to Israel. Another record high, after 40 voted to block bulldozers. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Peters, Reed, Rosen, Schumer, Warner, and Whitehouse voted with Republicans.

Grease 2 is a better movie than the original

the problem, of course, is that this ad could only be effective if the Democratic party were to commit to slashing the Pentagon budget and ramping up spending on universal benefits instead, and they have been happily doing the opposite alongside Trump

It was great to join On the Mark Podcast to talk empire + Trump. Listen/watch: youtu.be/IX-31DYBd2c?...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

This WV girl is elated to share that this paper is forthcoming in West Virginia Law Review! I explore how post-9/11 precedent paved the way for the Trump administration's abuse of the law to target cartels in international waters and to effectuate its mass deportation campaign.

World War Trump An analysis by The Intercept reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars. theintercept.com/2026/03/30/t...

Folks in DE/PA/NJ/etc, if you're looking for a great conversation on human dignity in current times, come to Delaware Law School's Dignity Law Symposium - The Role of the State in Protecting Human Dignity - on Friday April 10! succeed.widener.edu/register/?id...

If you need a fascist paramilitary to protect you from Canada I think you might be a little bit of a scaredy cat

I guess we should expect people to get bodyslammed or shot for not putting their laptops in a separate bin now

Remembering the meme's in this moment of sadness. He did nothing, accomplished less & wasted all our time, but it made a lot of centrist libs a load of podcasting money. In the end he really was an american hero. (outside of everything he did as FBI head under Bush & Obama to Muslims and activists)

don't leave out of your Mueller obits the part where he rounded up thousands of Muslim men suspected of no wrongdoing for secret detention and abuse as FBI Director 👍

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I really hate foreign policy discourse that describes any US action as "giving the green light" to Bad Country to do Bad Thing. We don't own the traffic lights! Green lights aren't ours to give!

The war is burning through roughly $11,500 to $23,000 per second. per second! PER SECOND!

Really hope at least some people learn from this experience that despite opportunistic rhetoric about peace, fascism does in fact mean war.

This is an important victory after a hard fight. Congrats and thanks to @ccrjustice.org. They do such important work--please support them if you can. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Truly a perfect news alert