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David Schraub
about 9 hours ago
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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Adam Serwer
6 days ago
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Dave Weigel
1 day ago
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
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Tom Nichols
5 days ago
"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating."
[email protected]
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Stop Defending Bari Weiss
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/bari-weiss-cecot-60-minutes/685450/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfBQl-ztaN7KA-gl2iOQ7wH4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Tuffy
6 days ago
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
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I agree with Frank Thomas. Admit the
@mlb.com
PED users into the
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Your Last Merry Popehat
11 days ago
Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
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Congressman Dwight Evans
12 days ago
I support both Congressman Gregory Meeks and
@repmcgovern.bsky.social
’s resolutions to end U.S. hostilities against Venezuela! The Constitution is clear — Congress, not the president, has the authority to declare war. It’s past time we put an end to Trump’s ill-conceived, illegal actions.
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House Democrats to force war powers votes as Trump teases strikes on Venezuela
The votes follow a monthslong military campaign against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-war-powers-votes-trump-venezuela-boat-land-strikes/
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Chad Loder
15 days ago
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
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How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/25/how-democrats-attack-on-section-230-plays-right-into-trumps-censorial-plans/
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The Bulwark
15 days ago
"The way you re-incentivize political behavior is you get politicians incentivized to appeal to the political center as opposed to the political extremes," Jeh Johnson tells
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Josh Marshall
17 days ago
hope everyone gets a chance to read this and the whole series it's part of
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
17 days ago
posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
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Fight for the Future
19 days ago
TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online. Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
https://badinternetbills.com
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Mike Stabile
19 days ago
If f you look at the language of these laws, it's entirely subjective and can be employed against a wide variety of content, as it has historically. The vagueness is a problem for speech, but not for censors. The vagueness gives them power.
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Stacey Burns
20 days ago
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/09/federal-agents-arrest-citizen-observer-watching-ice-north-minneapolis
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Jenny Cohn
27 days ago
Trump has pardoned: (1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking (2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold (3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/
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Brandon Friedman
27 days ago
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
28 days ago
“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews include military spouses
These kinds of arrests began Nov. 12, multiple immigration attorneys say, many adding they had never seen anything like this before.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-san-diego-green-card-interviews-include-military-spouses-rcna246851
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unraveled
about 1 month ago
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
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Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
https://unraveledpress.com/identified-federal-agents-who-pointed-gun-punched-detainee-in-evanston/
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Mike Stabile
28 days ago
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
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Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
https://reason.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-to-consider-19-bills-for-childproofing-the-internet/
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
about 1 month ago
Who is supporting these settlements? It’s generally not faculty or even long-time university administrators, it’s university boards and interim administrators who they’ve installed after admins with more of a fighting instinct have been forced out. There’s a playbook here.
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evacide
about 1 month ago
Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective:
cdt.org/insights/wha...
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What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features
This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...
https://cdt.org/insights/what-kids-and-parents-want-policy-insights-for-social-media-safety-features/
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Jesse Eisinger
about 1 month ago
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from
@robert-faturechi.bsky.social
& Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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So much of the
#UVa
and Jim Ryan saga makes more sense when you understand that UVa's lawyers were on the side of the Trump DOJ.
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Joe Fore
about 2 months ago
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
about 2 months ago
This is why government transparency litigation matters. Democracy Forward Secures Public Release of Key Details Related to Scheme to Disappear People, “Black Site” Agreement Between the United States and El Salvador.
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Democracy Forward Secures Public Release of Key Details Related to Scheme to Disappear People, “Black Site” Agreement Between the United States and El Salvador - Democracy Forward
BREAKING: Federal Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration’s Attempt to Cut Off Food Assistance for 42 Million People in America →
https://democracyforward.org/updates/us-sv-gulag-docrelease/
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Tim Chambers
about 2 months ago
Perfect live shot of the 8 Senate Democrats tonight.
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Alexander Howard
about 2 months ago
“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”—
@howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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Dave Jamieson
about 2 months ago
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
Notably,
@royalpratt.bsky.social
appears to have gotten his hands on the unredacted copy of the preliminary injunction motion seemingly filed in error yesterday before being deleted and replaced with a redacted version. Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.
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The Atlantic
about 2 months ago
Baseball is thriving, but its next crisis is just a year away. Don't blow it, writes @JonLemire.bsky.social.
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Don’t Blow This, Baseball
The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly back—just in time for its next crisis.
https://bit.ly/3WxwdkY
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Assuming the death penalty remains legal, the only method available should be by firing squad.
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The Bulwark
2 months ago
If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social:
www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...
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The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The+Bulwark&utm_campaign=publer
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Mike Masnick
2 months ago
This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech.
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Annie Waldman
2 months ago
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented
@nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
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Aubrey Gilleran
3 months ago
Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
3 months ago
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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derek guy
3 months ago
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
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Lynn Becker
3 months ago
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312442984.html?giftCode=44d98622506ff2b3ff180a1aa7e0aca3b2f09cf4ee6fa75f97d023c41d2a2b15
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This is one of many actions from this administration that's worth some commentary and snark, but more context:
apnews.com/article/idah...
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Sophie Sherry
3 months ago
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her
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TPM
3 months ago
In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...
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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection
Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bovino-trump-border-patrol-escalation
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Another Kavanaugh stop
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Jonathan V. Last
3 months ago
This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
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Genevieve Lakier
3 months ago
The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.
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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence
Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.
https://blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-unconstitutional-conditions-doctrine
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The Oregonian
3 months ago
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
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Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html
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Tom Nichols
3 months ago
Oh, fine. Let me just fire up the Tardis, go back two years, and write the articles you were too lazy (or too busy huffing your own virtue) to look for
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
and
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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