Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

I know he just signed with CAA so we should enjoy these "no media training" responses while we can.

“What we saw inside was horrible.” Rep. McIver speaks with MS NOW Nnamdi Egwuonwu about conditions inside Newark, NJ ICE facility.

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Ronald Reagan: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world, and we continuously renew and enrich our nation.” Jay Nordlinger: “This ‘Heritage American’ business is a scam.” open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

even if I’m putting on my very most cynical hat, it’s a very good thing that the establishment lane understands that they’re getting graded on this

Health care premiums haven't even spiked yet.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

Well done UC Berkeley. Well done Human Rights Watch. Well done CECOT survivors. Well done 60 Minutes.

What is described here is systemic, incessant torture. CECOT is a torture prison that Trump has publicly praised. Weiss didn't want us to see it.

The whole article is excellent and you should read it all, but I wanted to highlight this paragraph (also shown below) because a lot of white ppl don't understand that even _our_ rights and freedoms are bound up w/others'. (Yes, we _should_ stand up for the rights of nonwhite ppl just because it's…

That’s really antisemitic, actually.

There is a ton of evil, hardcore satanic level evil, in this country/world, so I shouldn’t be surprised but holy shit how do certain people live with themselves I don’t think I’m particularly exception on anything, including morality, I think I’m like most people just doing the best we can, and…

Yeah, that about sums it up. YIMBY has had some success as an elite persuasion tactic because if you put this up for a straight vote among the public it’d llose

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

So stoked for this.

When you never miss a chance to show your contempt for South Asians, you think that a community where some still struggle with colorism gives you license to come at us all. The idea that Zohran grew up surrounded by whiteness in Kampala, Cape Town & Morningside Heights is… well.

Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation’s oldest park ranger and related firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.

Haaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha As nearly every person has been saying on this website in the last 24 hours. This woman is infinitely in over her head. It’s YOUR listing schedule. YOU Put it out. If it wasn’t ready YOUR staff should have figured that out and brought it to

It’s the most debate-brained “gotta hear both sides” nonsense. But I’m sure it’s not a standard that The Free Press applies consistently.

I mean there’s nothing in this statute saying a volunteer appointive federal office is any different from a paid one.

That latter one is just really stupid because her own damn outlet uses "migrants" constantly.

I mean it's not like an interview with Miller was going to make the administration look better.

This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss

I continue to feel that the oppression of gay men goes underrated and often neglected in its range, including in the same ways that women are oppressed and that romance as a genre reflects

Thats a big problem. We kind of need to know if they were bad so we do not collectively waste a ton of resources on them again.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

The White House already declined to comment! They likely *know* they should decline to comment because there are ongoing lawsuits regarding this.

Why on earth would you give up being a governor with immense power in your deep red state to be a special envoy?

This is atrocious. These law-abiding H-1B holders were following the rules to renew their visas. They’re now trapped abroad, separated from their families, and unsure if they’ll be able to work. The U.S. is their home. Cruelty for the sake of it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump's cruelly harmful new expanded travel ban further underscores his unconstitutional claim to virtually unlimited executive power over immigration. See my discussion here, which builds on excellent post by my @cato.org colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social : reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Nothing Bari Weiss censors is going to reverse this.

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

Senate Dems need to get over this timidity and realize that they are in a constitutional knife fight with an administration that intends to make Congress irrelevant.

Today, Gaza has largely left the headlines. But "hell on earth" is not repaired by a ceasefire, let alone one where hundreds have been killed. @yara-asi.bsky.social dawnmena.org/the-ceasefir...

You absolutely should ask questions about the policies of the state of Israel, but when you go straight from "the US should support Israel because it's God's plan" to "Israel killed Charlie Kirk," without any pit stop in between, it's a sign you don't have a normal relationship to Israel as a state.

yikes it’s getting into the weird “heritage American” right wing discourse now

As an atheist it feels weird for me to say this, but this is what you get when a society loses all sense of the holy and builds itself entirely around spectacle. It's profane.

This is blasphemous.

TIL, and this also tracks.

Closeted queer NHL players are not going to feel excited seeing “how feral we are about the Skip kiss” or by the knowledge that you being feral about two hot actors kissing on TV “would 100 000% transfer to them”! They don’t want to become sex objects/romance projections for random strangers!

It’s not lost on me that BOOTS — based on a memoir about being gay in the pre-DADT Marines — didn’t really take off and got canceled after one season. Actually existing as a closeted gay man in a traditionally masculine space isn’t really fun or fun to watch.

The thing is that Casten doesn’t say he overperforms! He says that he wins.

feeling good about this format