A chilling explanation of what’s at stake in this case: Trump/Miller’s goal in stripping 100m Americans of citizenship isn’t to deport them, but to create “a permanent subordinate class” of noncitizen residents with “hereditary, lifelong, inferior” status who will provide labor & subservience.

Truly the best - read it immediately if you haven't yet

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

Inspiring, empowering story A tenants’ rights lawyer, solo practitioner: - bore witness to aftermath of ICE killing Renee Good - attended a zoom training about handling habeas cases - put his regular law practice on hold - started filing habeas cases for ICE abductees - helped free 14 clients so far

An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/

#ResignationInProtest, war on science edition Trump has “effectively shuttered” NASA’s Goddard Institute, which “maintains a record of surface temperatures going back to 1880, tracking satellite data on planet-warming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.”

“Powerus is flush with cash and…says there is no problem with it bidding for government money that could make [Trumps] richer.” @starsandstripes.bsky.social “It’s corruption. Government decision makers will feel pressure to use contract awards to enrich [Trump’s] family.” @kathleenclark.bsky.social

Some good news: The JFK Library's 2026 Profile in Courage Award for Constitutional & Human Rights goes to ... "The people of the Twin Cities ... for risking their lives to protect their neighbors & immigrant community members" www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-a...

Took California less than a day to begin the process of holding people accountable and making efforts to right wrongs. And Chavez was a revered figure! He wasn't some random finance bro pedo from NYC. Funny how the Ivys/prestige universities and the GOP protect Epstein and his buddies at all costs

A year before Howard Lutnick became Commerce Secretary, he made a big (>$100m) investment in a company (Tether) that controls 2/3 of the market for stablecoins. Then Lutnick used his government perch to "promote the development and growth” of stablecoins, with a possible payday in the billions.

I read a thread about that yesterday and I came away thinking that judge did not use the word “babies” as a synonym for “pre-pubescent children.” She was talking about BOTH. That defendant had CSAM involving actual babies. 🤢

In 2025, the GOP-controlled "Congress ... abdicated its constitutional role in favor of the executive branch, ceding significant legislative, fiscal, & oversight powers ... The Trump administration has de facto ... taken over the Congressional 'power of the purse'" with help from the Supreme Court.

G(uardians) O(f) P(edophiles) at it again

DT's Trio of NJ Prosecutors Summoned Before Angry Judge (2) because they did a BS plea deal for egregious CSAM news.bloomberglaw.com/financial-ac...

"The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." www.theguardian.com/world/commen... I never thought I would live through that. But here I am.

When your government institutionalizes the protection of pedophiles.

A wtf thread if ive ever seen one...

This thread, omg… #RAPEublicans

this is beyond crazy. wow.

The tl;dr: the Trump administration is pretending a plea agreement with a pedophile prevents them from bringing further charges for a bunch of additional CSAM, even though it doesn't.

Jimmy Kimmel calls the documents the “Trump-Epstein files.” Perhaps we should start calling this administration the “Epstein-Trump regime.”

I read the article and thought the judge was mystifyingly angry; this makes it much more legible

The Trump regime is a government of the pedophiles, by the pedophiles and for the pedophiles.

sure is weird how the doj keeps bungling csam cases so that sickos get to walk

Trump's DOJ invoked concern about "victims," but seemed to be more concerned with hiding its own incompetence & lenient plea deal for someone with child sex abuse material (CSAM). 🧵👇

This NYT article focuses on the theatrics of a judge tossing a DOJ official from his courtroom for speaking without permission, but the transcript reveals much worse govt wrongdoing: DOJ cut a plea deal w/ a child sex abuse material (CSAM) defendant before the FBI finished searching his devices ...

#ResignationInProtest, Iran War edition, pt. 2 2026-03-17: National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigns: "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation ... we started this war due to pressure from Israel ..."

#ResignationInProtest, Iran War edition, pt. 1 2026-03-12: A member of WH Religious Liberty Commission's Advisory Board resigns "in protest of ... the federal government’s illegal war against Iran, undertaken without clear constitutional or congressional authorization" substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yes. It's called "grooming" 🧵👇

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

#ResignationInProtest, Washington Post edition (yet another response to Jeff Bezos’s destruction of the formerly formidable paper)

Important 🧵 👇 (an example to inspire us all in these times) A servicemember who demonstrated extraordinary courage by attempting to stop — and then insisting on telling the truth about — a horrific war crime perpetrated by his colleagues: the My Lai massacre.

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

Fabulous exhibit at a pop-up museum. A must-see for any Watergate geeks: ~80 portraits of the burglars, coverup conspirators, Congressional investigators, journalists & more. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. < from a time when we still had accountability > watergatemuseum.org/events/?fbcl...

There, I fixed it. < “affair” inaccurately implies consent >

Sure: Who doesn’t want to return to the good ole days - when the executive branch was utterly unconstrained, so could spy on its own citizens (e.g., MLK)? - when Presidents would barely inform Congress before launching us into disastrous wars, killing tens of thousands of Americans? 👆🏼 Yoo’s vision

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

that's not fair. it's excellent for ponzi schemes, blackmail, and money laundering www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

The opposite of impunity is accountability.” In literally hundreds of court decisions, federal district judges have slapped down Trump administration lawlessness. OTOH, Republicans in Congress … silently stare into the middle distance. very few exceptions: e.g., Epstein Files Transparency Act

"In light of [Charles Kushner’s] apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission and the honour of representing one's country,” the French Foreign Minister asked “that he no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government.” In France: Accountability

a 🧵 👇 What the "Epstein files" can tell us about the corruption that pervades our legal/political system. The data dump mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act enables us to explore in concrete detail the ecosystem of influence & impunity that enabled Epstein to continue abusing children.

... the Epstein Files Transparency Act, w/ its astonishingly broad disclosure mandate, is a singular example of the federal government providing some accountability. Thanks, Rep. Thomas Massie & @rokhanna.bsky.social for ensuring transparency not just for Epstein's victims, but for the nation.

a 🧵 👇 What the "Epstein files" can tell us about the corruption that pervades our legal/political system. The data dump mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act enables us to explore in concrete detail the ecosystem of influence & impunity that enabled Epstein to continue abusing children.

These judges are true believers in democracy. Their opinions read like religious texts, or perhaps a founding document (“We hold these truths to be self-evident…”). No doubt @orinkerr.bsky.social has not been swept up in the fervor of yesterday’s opinion. Looking forward to his analysis/critique.

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I spoke w/ @regret.bsky.social about Epstein's modus operandi He seduced CBP officers in the Virgin Islands into reducing scrutiny of his flights by offering them: - "friendship" - gifts - rides in his helicopter - visits to his pedophile island & - proximity to wealth. It worked.

Tricia McLaughlin, DHS's Assistant Secretary for Deceiving the Public, is doubling down on ICE's false claims about a severely injured immigrant. ICE may try to deport him to avoid legal accountability. It ordered him to report to its main detention facility on Feb. 23 apnews.com/article/immi...

Epstein understood that offering "friendship" to low level government employees could insulate him from their judgment: CBP official Timothy Routch knew about Epstein's criminal '"conviction involving the abuse of minors but supported Epstein because [Epstein] was a good guy” to Mr. Routch.'

One reason Epstein got away with raping children for so long was his skill at manipulating folks. He was able to reduce scrutiny of his activities by finding ways to seduce the officials who were responsible for scrutinizing him. No need to offer them a bribe when the offer of friendship works.