So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

Jeg har svart på Asle Tojes innlegg i Vagant og Minerva, der han kom med nokså drøye anklager. Å svare Toje er ikke alltid lett. Man må for eksempel velge hvilke feil og fordreininger man skal gå i rette med, og hvilke man skal overse. 1/3

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Mahmoud Khalil addressing the judge today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Read @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the bizarre shortcomings of the majority's unsigned opinion in the Venezuelan migrant decision. An actual opinion is better than no opinion, I guess, but is it too much to ask that the opinion make sense? www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-140-...

By law you must declare all ideas to CBP at the border or port of entry, so that they can review and ensure that you only bring in approved ones. All unauthorized ideas will be consigned to the Mar-a-Lago Archive.

Today, John Roberts confirmed that, when he and his colleagues have to choose between backing up lower court judges who are standing up for the rule of law and serving the interests of Donald Trump, they will serve Trump.

Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

I know what you mean but this isn’t in fact an impossible position, and it shouldn’t be a difficult choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits. Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.

Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.

Disappearance is the correct term. The government is expanding its use of enforced disappearance as a border management strategy in alarming ways. My article from December in the Journal on Migration & Human Security here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Judges Thacker & King: "The [Government] has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present... off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that... courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

This is like a speech you'd hear in Germany circa 1938, but a few grades dumber

the united states is on a campaign to terrorize academia and journalism in the US into a state of cowardice. joke's on trump; academia and journalism were already 2 steps ahead.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.” We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous: www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

This is the most openly corrupt act by a sitting President in the history of America. It is now 4.40 PM - and Politico, WaPo and NYT are simply refusing to cover it. NYT wrote 35 articles speculating on the POSSIBLE corruption of Clinton Foundation. Which was never found.

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.

It's been several hours since I first watched this clip of billionaire Howard Lutnick ruminating about Social Security, and I still can't believe it. It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.

judge: you can't just say you don't know why the facts must be kept secret from me. I order someone with direct involvement in the state-secret discussion to submit a sworn declaration. DOJ: Hey, I'm a person involved. We're having discussion about keeping this secret. Yours truly, xoxo

When you’ve lost the moral high ground to Nicolas Maduro amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

Israel’s former defense chief Yoav Gallant met with Biden’s Middle East envoy, Brett McGurk, at the White House on Tuesday. Their meeting came just weeks after the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Gaza. https://buff.ly/3ZvVJYT

Israeli society is not well

Israelis: Every person in Gaza should be killed, including babies Sane people: Oh, that's called genocide Israelis: Nooooooooo you antisemite! Blood libel!!! Holocaust!!!! Kristallnacht!!!! Why does everyone keep picking on us for no reason???? 😭😭😭

If you listen to Syrians, you'll see there is a huge focus on the prisons. Thousands of people are now being released from these slaughter houses, some of them had been there since 1982. #Syria

Absolutely. It’s what threatens them all from Iran to Saudi Arabia to Israel. They cannot exist in the same way if the region was free from tyrants.

This is just an unspeakable horror.

The least moral army in the world

“[Frontex], The European Union’s border guards have been quietly recommending surveillance technology made by an Israeli firm” writes @dvcronin.bsky.social @intifada.bsky.social A clear example of how Israeli technologies that are weaponized against Palestinians are resold for border enforcement.

This morning, Israeli forces targeted the chief nurse,Tamer El Kord’s room,&three patient rooms at Kamal Adwan Hospital with explosive gunfire. Ambulances evacuating wounded patients to Gaza City were also fired on by the occupation forces. A paramedic inside one of the ambulances narrowly survived.

NEW: Hamas responds to Trump threat that there will be “ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East” if the Israeli hostages are not released before Trump’s inauguration. Hamas accuses Israel of sabotaging deals to release captives, says Trump should direct his message "towards Netanyahu and his government."

REVEALED: Drop Site News has uncovered that Israel has now contracted private companies specializing in settler construction to work in northern Gaza. Younis Tirawi reports for @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-pr...