Basically all of Africa, Asia and South America already does recognise Palestine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

Mangione still faces second-degree murder, but no longer the possibility of life without parole

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

The FBI had Tom Homan on VIDEO in Sept 2024 taking $50k in bills from undercover ops, indicating “he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office,” then did…nothing? Case now dropped. Carol Leonnig in her new gig has the story www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

So apparently the US government issues a snarky 'clarification' of their H1B rule to make the $100,000 fee apply only to new visas issued, not returning visa holders *without correcting the original shitty proclamation*. 1: I wouldn't trust that 2: It's absurd to not just correct the proclamation

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

For @atmosmag.bsky.social I wrote about Lighthiser v. Trump, which marked the first time that a federal court has ever heard live testimony in a constitutional climate change case.

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

these are the basic facts that get drowned out in the noise of all the misinformation

Reminder that there is still no orderly way to pay the $100 asylum fee, months after they forced that as a way to screw over people fleeing persecution. Expect continued chaos.

Phew! I would still race back into the US if I was an H1B worker because I don't trust this administration

Trump essentially sold off this part of the government to RFK Jr. in exchange for Kennedy’s electoral slice of conspiracy theorists. The GOP Senate could easily have blocked RFK’s confirmation, but would have had to cross Trump. They declined. Now medical flat-earthers run our public health

This is very dumb

Democracy itself is an assertion by the public that they will not be ruled by dictat

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

Donald Trump wants the United States to fail.

Maybe AILA will do something now idk

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Given the past two weeks’ developments, things are bad

The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

Excellent, terrifying post If you are on an H1-B and outside the US you need to get back in RIGHT NOW, in less than 24 hours you may have to pay 100k to get in with no clear payment method set up

yes and tech companies definitely knew this was coming aaron

I don't even understand the whole $100k per H1B fee thing first, what's the legality of it? if memory serves, they have to tie the fee requirement to processing work and it doesn't take 100k per h1B of processing (need to research this) second: this is gonna cause a sudden economic depression

RUIN HIM

The Trump regime is deleting decades of guidance & information from government websites. Compare this official link, broken, to DOJ immigration legal commentary, pre-Trump www.justice.gov/eoir/page/fi... to its Internet Archive backup version: web.archive.org/web/20250310... Law under fascism

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

Folks love to say Congress has been broken for a long time, and they're not wrong, but this is still a total collapse in the institution compared with trump I or any other period in US history

i think the best example of this is Bill Cassidy bitching about how the right is trying to kill the Hep B vaccine when he is a literal Senator

We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.

Two new AG decisions in the ongoing admin to admin ping-pong on family & gender-based violence asylum protections (as well as some other aspects of asylum law) www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1... www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1... It's absurd & awful. But Garland's half-assedness opened it up for worse

Los Angeles Asylum Office is packed with applicants More than usual applicant loads I’ve seen recently

Is it just me or do this years’s (very late) DOS human rights reports look weird?

I tried to speak to a supervisor at the airport but they just walked away and said that they just don't talk to people's lawyers. If anyone I follow here has any relevant contacts, I'd appreciate some help. Suing is all well and good but I'd rather she get on her flight.

Hi @americanair.bsky.social you are currently engaging in national interest discrimination against my client currently at Los Angeles airport. Your staff is refusing to recognize the validity of a properly issued refugee travel document containing a properly issued visa to Spain. This is urgent.

“I am here today because Houston is funding state-sponsored child abuse. Let’s be clear, every dollar this city spends helping ICE is a dollar spent orphaning Houston kids” Houston got together to demand HPD bring a STOP to its collusion with ICE. 🔗 www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Was just reading this piece by Yotam Margalit from like six years ago and he clarified something neatly about support for anti-democratic populism: The economically deprived or anxious might provide it the margin of electoral victory, but the core of support is cultural backlash & reaction.

Said this before, but don’t understand why media types don’t see this as an enormous failure of journalism.

5/Now, the Trump administration is retaliating against him. The flawed complaint they filed suggests an intent to go to war with the entire judiciary & bring it to heel, just like they have tried to do that with law firms, universities, and media outlets. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

1/On July 21, the Washington Post ran a piece headlined, “Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him.” There are real reasons for the courts to be concerned about the Trump administration gearing up to actively flout the authority of the Article III branch of government.

BREAKING: A FOURTH whistleblower has come forward with information about Emil Bove, a Trump judicial nominee who Senate Republicans rubberstamped yesterday. Bove helped orchestrate the blanket pardons of violent January 6 rioters.

While being interviewed on CNN the other day, Cindy McCain was asked about looting. Sure, she said, sometimes people take things. But they’re hungry. They need food. It would not be that hard to echo her tone and talking points and they’re choosing not to.

tw: the images and videos in this clip of starving and starved Gazan children are graphic and shocking, but not, as the report reminds us, surprising—Gazans are being starved by siege, a crime even William the Conqueror’s soldiers understood would weigh on their souls www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlyy...

Excellent, I love this, thank you @gowder.io @evanbernick.bsky.social and @anthonymkreis.bsky.social y'all are really awesome for demanding responsibility in scholarship