My thoughts on the perils of media consolidation in America and what it means for freedom of the press propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-not-so...

If there’s one position on asylum that I would consider “unreasonable,” it’s the one the White House has adopted: namely, that any person, no matter what danger they have fled, can be summarily returned to the hands of their persecutors propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/most-reaso...

I am astounded that anyone could defend Trump’s immigration policies, while simultaneously claiming that they support the right of asylum seekers to “be heard” in principle. But that is what one tech bro appears to have done: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/most-reaso...

Earlier this year, SCOTUS rightly stopped Trump from renditioning more people to CECOT. But now, they are letting him get away with sending people to a similar fate in Africa. Thoughts on our increasingly compromised judiciary: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/bad-judgment

My thoughts on Trump's UN speech yesterday: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/fragments-...

My thoughts on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension and related threats to free speech: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-specte...

"The administration is layering on a second incarceration to which these men have never been sentenced in court. [...] Trump really has created the 'legal abyss' that some observers feared when he first started deporting people to CECOT" propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/kidnapped-...

New reporting from NYT gives the first glimpse into the fate of people Trump is sending to forever-prisons in Eswatini: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/kidnapped-...

Labor Day thoughts from my personal blog: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-sleep-...

The fate of Lesotho is a parable for the Trump administration's whole foreign policy open.substack.com/pub/propensi...

The release of 250 Venezuelan hostages that the U.S. wrongfully held captive in CECOT is "good news"—but what does it say about what our country has become? And what justice or redress will these men ever receive for what was done to them? propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-united...

#FreeAndry & the other 230+ people Trump kidnapped and disappeared to a forever prison in El Salvador. Now a government whistleblower is speaking out to confirm the lawlessness of these abductions. Support @immdef.bsky.social to fight for justice. Free them all! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Kavanaugh's bizarre concurrence in today's birthright citizenship case essentially reads as a proposal for the entire judicial function to be swallowed up in the Court's shadow docket. "Don't worry about nationwide injunctions—we can do everything through unreasoned emergency stay applications"

The Supreme Court is effectively nullifying people's legal rights—and thus the rule of law. They did it with asylum; then the Convention Against Torture; and now birthright citizenship. Asylum really was the canary in the coal mine propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/asylum-rea...

No to war. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan launches campaign to take on Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a familiar opponent. Bohannan lost to MMM 53-47 in 2022, then held the incumbent to 50.0-49.8 win as Trump was carrying #IA01 54-45 www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...

The government wrongfully deports someone to a tropical gulag, then lies about the evidence to cover up for their own miscarriage of justice. It happened in the 19th century, and it's happening again today. Reflections from my personal blog: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-prison...

They were always lying when they said they couldn’t bring them back. If they can bring back Kilmar, they can bring back Andry. No more lies, no more stalling. #FreeAndry #BringThemBack

Chief of Nashville, criminal division resigns over decision to charge Abrego Garcia. That’s a big story and the details will likely be very damning for the administration.

The return of Abrego Garcia also of course bears on the ability of the U.S. government to return the hundreds of other men renditioned to El Salvador and who remain arbitrarily detained in CECOT.

If the federal government had the goods on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they should have prosecuted him consistent with the due process of law and not railroaded him into a dangerous prison despite his protected status. This is a vindictive abuse of the system. Pure and simple.

An innocent man is wrongfully accused and disappeared to a hellish prison in the tropics. A corrupt government would rather lie about the case and slander their own victim than concede their mistake. Alfred Dreyfus 130 years ago. But also Kilmar Abrego Garcia today. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

The administration continues its fishing expedition to find yet another post hoc rationale to justify their own confessed wrongful deportation. Glad he's back in the U.S., but if “This is what American justice looks like,” as Bondi says here, we're in serious trouble... www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...

The admin's apparent attempt to collectively punish a family for the alleged crime of the parent is a yet another effort on their part to treat immigration as a due process–free zone, where they can abuse power in ways unthinkable in any other context. But that's not actually how this works.

“If this administration were serious about countering antisemitism, it would not be appointing antisemitic extremists [&] normalizing antisemitic conspiracy theories that have fueled attacks on Jews and others.” — @amyspitalnick.bsky.social, CEO @thejcpa.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

A reminder that the "inflammatory content" at issue was Neo-Nazism & antisemitic conspiracy theories—including some amplified & endorsed by Elon himself. No company should profit from hate—let alone be forced to do so against their will. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

"That is what our country is doing to people: They miss a turn, and we blot them off the face of the Earth for it." Reflections from my blog based on recent reporting for the New York Times by Jay Root and Miriam Jordan: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-bridge...

Cuts to safety net programs and foreign assistance could cause thousands of preventable deaths. GOP leaders are telling us outright that they don't care. propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/big-budget...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

"Due process matters. Immigrants matter. LGBTQ rights matter. Andry and all the missing men in El Salvador matter, and we won’t stop until we bring them back" — @cargiolim.bsky.social #FreeAndry #BringThemHomeNow www.yahoo.com/news/left-ve...

Free Andry

This administration has literally abducted and disappeared someone—to be held incommunicado, possibly for the rest of his life, in a Salvadoran gulag—because he made a wrong turn on the highway. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/n...

If Trump has indeed slowed mass migration, it is by making the United States into the sort of authoritarian country that people flee from, rather than try to get to. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/w...

Trump's human rights violations against Venezuelans have been so egregious that they are essentially triggering a refugee crisis in reverse. Which of course is by design. But from a morally sane perspective, this is not good for the US or the ppl who want to come here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/w...

With the Supreme Court exposing 350,000 innocent people to increased risk of deportation this week—giving Trump billions more to fund his detention & deportation machine is the very last thing Congress should be doing. My latest for UUSC: www.uusc.org/what-you-can...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported, and now we know this administration tried to cover it up. They floated false gang ties to justify the harm they caused. New @nytimes.com reporting reveals the truth. #JusticeforKilmar #BringKilmarHome

While Trump disingenuously claims to denounce antisemitism today, his FTC is meanwhile blatantly retaliating against a media organization for daring to report on antisemitism on X/Elon Musk's own public endorsement & promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/t...

J.D. Vance sold his soul a long time before this. But it is interesting and creditable that Ross Douthat has begun to notice www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Holding his newborn child for the first time after 2 and a half months of confinement—for what? Attending protests. In a country that supposedly has a First Amendment. The cruelty is just staggering.

At the very end of this interview, Klein and Tapper acknowledge the one key fact that takes the wind out of their whole argument. The Democratic Party did what a healthy political party does. It changed candidates once it became clear Biden couldn't win. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

The hell we put innocent people through just for trying to eat and survive. My latest thoughts on the El Salvador renditions: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/when-just-...

The reason J.D. Vance is repeatedly unable in this interview to defend his own policy of illegally rendering people to El Salvador—without resorting to ad hominems or trying to pivot the subject—is because that policy is indefensible. What a pathetic man. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

These Alien Enemies Act deportations are quite possibly the most evil thing I've seen our government do in my lifetime. And the Supreme Court just annihilated the most practical and efficient means to stop them. Thoughts from my blog: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Our culture has been so brutalized after just 2 months of Trump 2.0 that we have barely begun to register the full scale of the atrocity our govt inflicted on the people they deported to El Salvador... propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-blasph...