first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

A reminder that thanks to the no good terrible very bad Supreme Court decision in INS v. Chadha, this is subject to a veto. He'll be annoyed by having to veto it, that's what they were trying to avoid. But even if both houses pass it, that's what will happen.

I had a good chat with @joshchafetz.bsky.social where he touched on this. Even if you accept the premise that Congress crafted this unconstitutional scheme of post hoc congressional review, then the relevant delegation of power to the executive should have gone with it. Not properly severable at all

“The merciless machinery of immigration enforcement was always going to be used by fascists & white supremacists who aren’t dispassionate at all. They love the work. The tools of ICE & DHS were always deadly weapons lying on the table. MAGA just picked them up and loaded them.”— @liberalcurrents.com

“Proportionality demands we treat immigration violations humanely. Detention in jail, let alone in a concentration camp, is hardly proportional. And deportation is an outrageously disproportionate response.” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

“We enforced immigration laws before ICE, and enforcement responsibilities deemed necessary can be shifted to other agencies. This is far from radical. ICE's presence is intolerable and they must go.” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Excellent article on something I've been saying for years. As a woman in the theatre it still feels there's a perception of prostitution. "This contempt for artists as nothing more than whores there to please the (preferably conservative) masses is a telling attitude toward the creative pursuits."

A carbon neutral USA will need robust, affordable, and reliable electricity. A "public option" wins every time over the private ownership of this most public of goods. Great explainer from @rcsmitheco.bsky.social

My article, "The Unitary Executive and Politics," is officially published in the Ohio Northern University Law Review. I thank the editors at ONU for their assistance and hard work! Read it and cite it! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

BREAKING: @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.

A “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco was about as dizzyingly absurd as the tech industry itself, @matteowong.bsky.social reports from the event:

Privately top Republicans are calling for Lutnick to resign because his connections to Epstein might tarnish the reputation of … his boss, who has even *greater* ties to Epstein? Make it make sense.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

Canada has stood with America when we were at our lowest, has fought and died in wars alongside us, has done everything a nation could to help and be amicable with another. And now America has gratuitously stabbed Canada in the back, and continues to do so. Things can never be the same again.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

What precisely are Democratic Party leaders in Congress doing to stop this?

She’s right. Trump and Vance and Miller and Noem are building a gulag archipelago right here in the United States. As far as I am aware, Democratic leaders in Congress are not trying to stop it.

They should invent a United States government which isn’t run by corrupt racist pedophiles.

“It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein,” Rep. García posted on X. “Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.

So I just listened to @ariberman.bsky.social articulate the same theory @jvl.bsky.social has: that there’s a real chance the Trump admin is going to lean on Maduro or offer him some sort of deal to say Venezuela did interfere in the 2020 elections. open.spotify.com/episode/1cPG...

Enjoying the replies informing me of the conservative legal movement like I don't do this for a living. I'm fully aware that John Roberts and co. are not good-hearted rubes fooled by Fox, but the conservative media ecosystem also allows them to feel like the good guys while they destroy the country

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

We need Supreme Court expansion & reform "Gorsuch’s opinion embraced the conservative fantasy of ... Christian persecution" "Kavanaugh’s description was so dissonant with the ... violence ... on video that ICE arrests are ... called 'Kavanaugh stops'" Great @skennedy2504.myatproto.social piece!

The thing they hate isn't that a Spanish homage to pan-Americanism, or likewise a show centered on black culture last year, isn't that it's somehow foreign. They hate that it highlights how not foreign it is, it's deeply embedded and immediately culturally legible to Americans as part of our story.

While many of you are likely yelling “GO PATRIOTS” or “GO SEAHAWKS” I’m yelling “GO HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE” and “The rule of law!”

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Many countries, such as the UK & US, have versions of ‘first past the post’. These are inherently undemocratic & off-putting. You can learn all about proportional representation here. It’s interesting that ppl talk about getting rid of certain politicos, but not the system that creates them!

There is no way Reform UK could, on current trends, win a general election under proportional representation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The ultimate solution is the Fair Representation Act that would implement proportional ranked choice voting in larger multiwinner districts. All gerrymandering would end for good. I agree that gerrymandering needs to be even worse to force its end. fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

If Starmer goes the last UK Prime Minister to complete a full term was David Cameron in 2015. So much for those who say proportional representation leads to instability.

Our theory of victory is emphatically NOT one involving “a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists,” to quote @victorerikray.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

"Meanwhile, the pardon power in the hands of a ruthlessly criminal president is the skeleton key to a dictatorship." Total abolition of POTUS's constitutional pardon power —and replacing it with a pardon commission like most other states and countries—is low hanging bipartisan fruit.

Liberal Currents Caucus rise up!

labour gov brags about deportation numbers, nativists complain they see non-white faces perfect encapsulation of why this doesn't work

Just know you will never screw up your job as badly as the Olympic Committees that picked all of the Axis powers to host the Olympics ahead of WW2.

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

“Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of good health, not terminal decline. It is rather the silence of public censorship and the monotone dullness of an artificial homogenization that announces the death throes of the body politic.”

Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

We have been baking in the 80s in LA please bring it to an end.

Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.