New book 🚨: Lights and Shadows: The Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court, eds Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo & Fabio Ferraz de Almeida. Incl. chapter by @profkmm.bsky.social, Valerie Oosterveld & me on the forced marriage findings in the Ongwen case. brill.com/display/titl...

Militarized federal agents patrolling the streets doesn't make anyone safer. People should never have to fear being brutalized by their government for protesting.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries they aren’t from — including Libya and South Sudan — without giving them time to contest the deportation. By @eleanorbpaynter.net‬ @uoregon.bsky.social‬:

Trump has opted to respond to weekend’s horrific political violence by insulting Gov. Tim Walz.

Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

This is a shocking video. I've texted @padilla.senate.gov to let him know that we support him and will speak out against this injustice. There is no excuse for this.

Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator.

Musk and his gang rather disrupt than save lives.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Trump's mishandling of the economy during his first 100 days shouldn't surprise anyone. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. Watch. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=tmQLdtdCWpVAWW-r

Legal challenges to President Trump’s El Salvador deportations have focused on due process, writes @conor64.bsky.social. Less attention has been paid to another constitutional protection: the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”

This motherfucker straight up admitted that he rigged the election. Plain English.

Good Night World

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

The two men shook hands over the unjustified, indefinite imprisonment of people convicted of nothing. “We have bad ones, too. I’m all for it,” Trump said of sending US citizens to El Salvador.

The Trump administration defied two courts orders: they won't let the AP back into the White House, and they're refusing to give updates on their plans to return the man they wrongly deported. These keep stacking up.

‘Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.’ www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Holy shit. This is the funniest political ad I’ve ever seen. The Republican House Caucus wants it taken down. You know what to do.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff

And the only mention of it on the actual print front page is just an image with a caption telling people they need to turn to page 18 to read about it. Not worthy of a front page story, apparently.

Typical corporate media (lack of) coverage...

NEW -- Trump's new tariff scheme increases tax on Americans by trillions and could well tank the economy -- but at least it gives an openly transactional president a whole new potential profit center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Millions of people took to the streets yesterday to send a message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Even during these dark days, remember that you are not alone. Solidarity.

Where I explain how the revocation of student visas and illegal detention of our non-US students amounts to a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing of our universities. youtu.be/qAJ7YQkIU0k

“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

Trump and Bukele want to disappear these men, but we have an obligation to recognize their humanity, and to demand their return and their freedom. Because if we don’t, then who else will they come for next?

The cuts will impact about 4 million low-income Americans every year.

The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

Today’s bonus issue of “One First” uses Tuesday’s executive order on elections to illustrate what a President can (and, as importantly, *can’t*) do through an executive order—and how major media organizations should do better in reporting on them: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-134-...

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets

BREAKING: We, @aclu.org and CLEAR are joining Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after ICE unlawfully arrested and detained her in retaliation for her political speech. Speaking out against a war, a policy, or a government is not a crime. The government must immediately release Ms. Öztürk.

Any cop pulling up a mask and obscuring their face should be fired. How is this legal? This is what you see in Georgia and other countries that have authoritarian regimes.

The SAVE Act may as well be called the anti-voting rights act. Here’s why:

From “What the accidentally leaked war group chat reveals about the Trump administration” by Moira Donegan Read more: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements

They not only shared highly classified information on a private messaging app, but they also presumably did so on private unsecured phones--phones that are highly likely to be of interest to our adversaries. People have spent years in jail for far less. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Funny. Not so funny. It is a complete endrun around national security channels to use an insecure device and app to discuss highly classified, imminent military plans. 18 U.S.C. § 793(f) a crime for people entrusted with national defense info to disclose it to others out of gross negligence.

Thanks, MAGA.