Alison Frankel
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Senior advisor to the Ethics and Journalism Initiative at NYU. Ex-legal journo. Cat lady.
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Will Stancil
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Okay this isnât really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had âinternal ICE sourcesâ: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day
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Aaron Rupar
4 days ago
Trump: âI agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for two weeksâ
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FinTwitter
4 days ago
TRUMP ON PAKISTAN'S 2-WEEK EXTENSION REQUEST: NOT YET FULLY BRIEFED BUT KNOWS PM SHARIF WELL, CALLS HIM 'HIGHLY RESPECTED'; LEAVITT SAYS PRESIDENT IS AWARE & RESPONSE WILL COME - FOX NEWS
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BREAKING: Pakistanâs Prime Minister is asking President Trump to extend his deadline by two weeks and is urging the Islamic Republic of Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding two-week period in exchange.
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Chris Murphy
4 days ago
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nationâs conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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Spencer Ackerman
4 days ago
âA whole civilization will die tonightâ is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when theyâve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. Iâm staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Adam Bonin
6 days ago
The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes."
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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David Noll
6 days ago
Once again, it is worth emphasizing how much shame this man brings to the United States.
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Roger Parloff
8 days ago
Toward the end she tried to target more innocent people, but it was too little, too late.
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Courthouse News
9 days ago
#BREAKING
: Bondi out as US attorney general
@benjaminweiss.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/bondi-out-as...
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Bondi out as US attorney general
Bondi became the second casualty of Trump's second stint in the White House, following the ouster of Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.courthousenews.com/bondi-out-as-us-attorney-general
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Brennan Center
10 days ago
The federal law prohibiting federal armed agents from polling places has been on the books since the Civil War. If ICE shows up to the polls, voters should report it to their local election officials or call 866-OUR-VOTE if they have any issues.
bit.ly/4s3UQDe
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Sending ICE to Polling Places Is Illegal
Armed federal agents have absolutely no business near election sites.Â
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/sending-ice-polling-places-illegal
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Kyle Cheney
11 days ago
JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws.
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Reuters Legal
11 days ago
A proposed antitrust class action against a group of elite U.S. universities was upended at least temporarily on Tuesday, when a federal judge in Chicago said he had been misled and that the plaintiffs must find new lawyers to lead their legal team.
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Judge says students must find new lawyers in class action over US college financial aid
A proposed antitrust class action against a group of elite U.S. universities was upended at least temporarily on Tuesday, when a federal judge in Chicago said he had been misled and that the plaintiffs must find new lawyers to lead their legal team.
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Burning question for
#Mets
#LGM
fans: Where are the Cambridge Paving Stone commercials??? Itâs not really baseball system without hearing that with Armortech it always looks like new
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Steve Mullis
12 days ago
Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"
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Roger Parloff
11 days ago
Hereâs
@lawfaremedia.org
's exclamation mark density⢠analysis for Judge Leonâs White House Ballroom injunction, with historical comparisons. WH Ballroom case: 0.51 EM/page Kelly v Hegseth: 0.48 EM/page WilmerHale v. EOP: 0.37 EM/page I.e., a new record since we've been tracking. (!)
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Sean Marotta
11 days ago
This is BlueSkyism at its worst and is, in part, why it is hard for the
#AppellateTwitter
ethos to take hold here and on any platform anymore. No one who knows Mark's reporting can doubt his care and solicitude towards the trans community.
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Chris Geidner
11 days ago
BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."
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Adam Klasfeld
11 days ago
BREAKING Trumpâs executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is âunlawful and unenforceable,â a federal judge ruled. Doc
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ProPublica
11 days ago
NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases â including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs â while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trumpâs second term.
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Trumpâs Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases â including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs â in just the first six months of Presi...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774958424&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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LindaForfar2 đ¨đŚ Ottawa
12 days ago
Happy Monday everyone. What happens when you stop petting đ
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Brian Wolfman
13 days ago
Remarkable story
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<Sean Connery voice> Thatâs the Chicago way
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Jay Kirell
14 days ago
No Kings. Just Mets. The meme lives on!
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Nat Turnerâs Slave Rebellion
14 days ago
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A story for
#nokings
skeptics. I went to a rally last year in a relatively small town on Long Island. It was really just a gathering of several dozen like-minded people. No speakers, no real organization. I went back to that town for todayâs rally. There were speakers from the NYCLU /
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Jen
17 days ago
Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.
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Clara Jeffery
15 days ago
There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for
#nokings
tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide
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Eunice Cho
15 days ago
So proud to announce that detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz won their preliminary injunction and motion for class certification in challenging lack of access to counsel.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71155...
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Order on Motion for Leave to File Document AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Certify Class â #243 in C.M. v. Noem (M.D. Fla., 2:25-cv-00747) â CourtListener.com
Order on Motion for Leave to File Document AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Certify Class
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71155779/243/cm-v-noem/?redirect_to_download=True
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Jon Seidel
16 days ago
Ex-federal prosecutors in Chicago taking on Trump's 'troubling' DOJ: âWe feel compelled to speak and act' NEW from
@chicago.suntimes.com
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chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
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Ex-federal prosecutors in Chicago taking on Trump's 'troubling' DOJ: âWe feel compelled to speak and act'
An email from 14 former prosecutors seeks the support of hundreds of fellow alums following more than a year of Justice Department controversies, including claims that President Donald Trump has used ...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2026/03/26/chicago-trump-justice-department-doj-webb-lassar-fitzgerald
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Sheera Frenkel
16 days ago
Anthropic just won its preliminary injunction against the Trump admin. Judge writes that, âNothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.â
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Kyle Cheney
16 days ago
BREAKING: Anthropic wins an injunction barring federal agencies from carrying out Trumpâs directive.
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Reuters
17 days ago
Second US appeals court upholds Trump's immigration detention policy
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Second US appeals court upholds Trump's immigration detention policy
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday endorsed the Trump âadministration's policy of subjecting people arrested in its immigration crackdown to mandatory detention without âthe chance to be released on bond in a ruling that will affect numerous cases in Minnesota and six other states.
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Ryan Goodman
17 days ago
Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)
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Reuters Legal
17 days ago
BREAKING: A Los Angeles jury found Alphabet's Google and Meta liable in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit
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Carrie Brown
17 days ago
"Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top-secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club."
www.ms.now/news/trump-c...
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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
The special counselâs team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them â and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-classified-documents-smith-investigation-business-motive
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Simon Rosenberg
18 days ago
Wow.
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Ron Filipkowski
21 days ago
As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.
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In other news, Iâm in Norway and this is what the sky looks like
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Reuters Legal
22 days ago
BREAKING: US judge blocks restrictive Pentagon press access policy
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Side note: Media outlets that refused to cave to Pentagon press rules have been coming up with scoop after scoop from military sources. So much for Hegsethâs attempt to strangle journalism
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
Who is demanding the imposition of sharia law in America? I can't think of anyone calling for that, much less enough of a groundswell that it warrants an actual response from Congress. Who's pushing this, Mike? Name names.
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Hero!
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WIRED
about 1 month ago
The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the companyâs technology.
www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation
The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the companyâs technology.
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-sues-department-of-defense-over-supply-chain-risk-designation/
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Ryan Goodman
about 1 month ago
Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the âMiddle East."
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheâs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. Theyâve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrĂguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany RodrĂguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/journalist-estefanty-rodriguez-ice-detention-colombia/
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Josh Gondelman
about 1 month ago
I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.
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