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Anna Hickey
Lawfare
about 23 hours ago
On Lawfare Daily,
@annahickey.bsky.social
talked to Nicholas Enrich, former acting assistant administrator of Global Health at USAID, about his book, âInto the Wood Chipper," where he detailed the agency's dismantling during the early months of the Trump administration.
youtu.be/naftZg7waOw
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I thought DOGE was fixing this? That's why they destroyed USAID, which will result in the death of millions around the world and left hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, right?
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Josh Chafetz
9 days ago
Just a reminder that in Shelby County, Roberts told us not to worry about the loss of VRA preclearance, because weâd still have VRA sec. 2 suits. That was, of course, disingenuous nonsense even at the time. Now, with Brnovich and Calllais, itâs all the more so.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
22 days ago
A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
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ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.
https://bit.ly/4cOUzzu
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Not to weather post but DC has to update its housing regulations to allow apt buildings to turn heat off before May 1
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Quinta Jurecic
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Before she was fired, Pam Bondi gave Attorney General's Awards to two K-9s
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Next Attorney General Has an Impossible Job
Just like the last one
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-pam-bondi-justice-department-fired/686672/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TnKZQmQHUaY3csqr8p7ZlRc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Thinking about how small USAID's budget was compared to this and how much good it did is just so infuriating
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about 2 months ago
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Tyler McBrien
about 2 months ago
The first two episodes of "Who Blew Up the Guidestones?" â our six-part audio investigation into the strange Georgia monument â are out TODAY. It's a wild ride, with a fair share twists and revelations along the way. So grab your tin foil hat and join me by subscribing below đđ§đȘŠđ
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Currently being 84 degrees but tomorrow having a 75% chance of snow feels vaguely apocalyptic
about 2 months ago
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Lawfare
2 months ago
For the second time since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has gone to war with Iran.
@sranderson.bsky.social
delves into the international and domestic law surrounding the strikes and what congressional opposition could look like.
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The Law of Going to War with Iran, Redux
The Trump administrationâs attack on Iran pushes even the executive branchâs generous understandings of the Presidentâs legal authority to their limits.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-law-of-going-to-war-with-iran--redux
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The Downballot
2 months ago
By the way, Democrats have now flipped 27 legislative seats in Trump 2.0. Republicans are still stuck at zero. Even in 2017-18, the GOP managed to flip a few. This time, just a goose egg, despite several good chances.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. Thatâs not what we found. After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis. (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
âBrutal and traumatizingâ: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772589608&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brendel
2 months ago
Itâs crazy that itâs basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history
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if only there were some kind of join comprehensive plan of action that could have reduce the likelihood of nuclear iran without military action
2 months ago
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"Until circumstances compel the other branches of government to adjust their posture...the executive branch is unlikely to see itself as legally constrained from participating in Israelâs military campaign against Iran, if Trump ultimately opts to do so."
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2 months ago
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Adam Serwer
2 months ago
Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat
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Chris Hayes
2 months ago
This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...
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Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramountâs offer is deemed superior
Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount to be superior.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-deal-superior-netflix.html
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The next president needs to make antitrust & monopoly breaking a priority
2 months ago
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Deeply obsessed with my parents old dog who has to be tucked in for his naps
2 months ago
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This simple cannot be a comfortable sleeping position
3 months ago
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Anna Hickey
Lawfare
3 months ago
This conversation is now live! Tune in to hear
@petereharrell.bsky.social
break down the Supreme Court's tariff opinion:
youtube.com/live/w1DRbr-...
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Tariff opinion is out! 6-3 overturning the tariffs with Thomas/Kavanaugh/Alito dissenting.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
3 months ago
I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
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Rodger Sherman
3 months ago
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
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I have a theory that the reason 2028 primary is already being litigated is that people just desperately want the Trump years to be over and discussing the Democratic primary makes it seem closer to being over than it is
3 months ago
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Lawfare
3 months ago
Lawfare's Litigation Tracker follows legal challenges to the Trump administrationâs executive actions that deal with national security issues, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them. View it here:
www.lawfaremedia.org/trumptracker
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David Roberts
3 months ago
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
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lauren
3 months ago
i simply do not think the "2016 and 2024 prove america will never elect a woman" people in the QTs are expressing a savvy political wisdom as much as they are expressing cope
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There's no reason for there to be discourse about the 2028 democratic primary before literally anyone has announced their candidacy
3 months ago
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I feel both more hopeful about the future of American democracy than I did in February 2025 and much more scared about what the Trump administration will do as it becomes more obvious they will lose
3 months ago
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JD Vance getting booed so loudly at the Olympics is hopefully a harbinger for what the reaction will be in the 2028 LA Olympics
3 months ago
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Mike Hixenbaugh
3 months ago
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who â like Liam Ramos â have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as theyâre served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
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Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-texas-immigration-facility-nightmares-school-food-dilley-ice-rcna257473
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Chris Hayes
3 months ago
Woke 2.0 back with a vengeance. You love to see it.
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Had to drive in DC today because of an emergency and truly this city does not plow their streets for shit
3 months ago
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Genuinely don't understand how it's still January
3 months ago
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
3 months ago
imo of all the formal political institutions in US life, the judiciary has given the best account of itself by a pretty large margin (with the obvious exception of SCOTUS) and a younger me was way more dismissive of the courts than history would prove deserved
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Micah
3 months ago
the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with âthis was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcementâ knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone
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Tyler McBrien
3 months ago
It is clear that abuses committed by ICE and other federal agentsâincluding todayâs apparent execution of an unarmed man in the streetâare so widespread that the country will need to undergo a major truth and reconciliation process, in addition to pursuing justice through prosecutions.
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At a Kennedy center performance but in a woke way (whenever I see Trump's name I shake my head and give and thumbs down)
3 months ago
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The third lecture in
@lawfaremedia.org
's lecture series on the intellectual movement that has emerged around Trumpism hosted by
@lkatfield.bsky.social
is now up! You can watch the series at:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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4 months ago
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Deeply grateful for
@jamellebouie.net
's video on why trump can't just cancel the midterms - i feel like 1 out of 3 conversations I have IRL about politics include people who are so convinced there won't be 2026 elections
4 months ago
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Laura Jedeed
4 months ago
A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
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Youâve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. Iâm the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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jamelle
4 months ago
i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*
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Lawfare
4 months ago
In a special edition of Lawfare Daily,
@annabower.bsky.social
spoke to
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social
and
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social
about the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, the federal governmentâs reported investigation of the shooting, and more.
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Lawfare Daily: The Legal Fallout After a Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapoli
YouTube video by Lawfare
https://youtu.be/UsdJpJmBfR0
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Christopher Wiggins
4 months ago
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: âThey killed my wife. I donât know what to do." âWe stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,â the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
âThey killed my wife,â the distraught woman says, adding, âThey shot her in the head.â
https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
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Jon Collins
4 months ago
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
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