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very/very good - and incidentally, as i hear from europeans, this is a very common reaction to the chest-thumping aggression they hear from trump/USG officials, not just re iran but across the board.

This is an exceptionally clear and thoughtful article, and I look forward to using it in my Women and the Law class later this month. ⤵️ review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

"Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces... Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft... 'It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,'" an official said.

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congress needs to stop this madman

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Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage. Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

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 ​Middle East."

excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.

Reversing another hard-fought federal policy from and for the "Racial Reckoning" with police violence.

"U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information ... say the administration’s assertions are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong." - Wall Street Journal

(Gift link) Admin is wise to drop what would've been a big loss on appeal. But given the limited scope of the trial ct rulings (only reaching the firms attacked), it keeps the possibility of more threats above other firms' heads. The threat remains acute, as does the damage of BigLaw's response. 🧵

I share the praise for the firms that fought these EOs. But one can win the (lawsuit) battle & lose the (professional independence) war. Firms have radically pulled back their willingness to take ANY case adverse to the WH. The chilling effect remains, w/huge real-world costs as elections approach.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

The must-read SOTU rebuttal, by @jamellebouie.net ⤵️ What Hath Trump Wrought www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

🙏 Haven Watch is there 24/7 (havenwatch.org).

Must-read by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social ⤵️

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. Trump's global tariffs were always on shaky legal ground. 2. Still heartening that Roberts, Gorsuch, & Barrett had the spine to say they're illegal. 3. The liberals held on the line on major questions! 4. Kavanaugh's dissent is an abomination. 5. Thomas' is even worse! slate.com/news-and-pol...

I really liked this new HBO documentary! ⤵️ Every year, I share with my students the link to the university database with the digital archives of the magazine, so we can see for ourselves the articles in their original format. Very powerful. (Also great: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695852)

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Federal agents' use of tear gas and other chemical irritants as crowd control measures is worrying medical professionals and public health experts, who say such exposure could disproportionately impact children and other vulnerable populations https://bit.ly/4rZxwXp

Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Since I've seen a few skeets implying otherwise, I'll note that nothing in Trump v. United States prevents a president from being held criminally liable for acts taken when he wasn't the president, though longstanding DOJ policy would prevent a federal criminal prosecution while he's in office.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Every American needs to read this (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...

Wow. Fed. judge tells DHS, ICE, Sec. Noem, AG Bondi, EOIR and others that they are harming "the fabric of this very nation" by defying a court order that vacated their automatic-detention policy. Order is linked here: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Looking forward to attending this Stafford Little Lecture with @katemanne.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @princeton.edu, later today. There will be a livestream starting at 5 pm, available here: mediacentrallive.princeton.edu lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/202...

As someone who is dealing with the full impact of progressive multiple sclerosis, I cannot put into words how much I am disappointed in and morally offended by everything and everyone leading us to this anti-science era. The irrationality and the arrogance . . .

Looking forward to attending this Stafford Little Lecture with @katemanne.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @princeton.edu, later today. There will be a livestream starting at 5 pm, available here: mediacentrallive.princeton.edu lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/202...

As someone who is dealing with the full impact of progressive multiple sclerosis, I cannot put into words how much I am disappointed in and morally offended by everything and everyone leading us to this anti-science era. The irrationality and the arrogance . . .

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Everyone in America should see this and think about what it implies. And have the courage, like him, to stand up.

This is the single most effective pro-vaccine piece I've ever read. Especially if you are also active on other, bigger social media platforms, share the gift link below. You might save a life. (I am already extremely pro-vaccine and I suspect most others on this platform are too.)

“You can make all sorts of improvements to Dilley, but it’s still going to be a prison,” said Ms. Welch, the class-action lawyer, who regularly visits Dilley to assess conditions. “You can improve education, and they should,” she added, but “it will still be a place with sick, sad children.”

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

The moves to mainstream him are alarming and should be taken very seriously. ⤵️

Nearly two out of three surveyed high school principals (64%) NATIONWIDE said “students from immigrant families missed school due to policies or political rhetoric related to immigrants.”

Peyton Rollins, the 21-year-old official behind a monthslong stream of Labor Dept. social media posts that parroted white-nationalist messaging has a new employer: the Department of Homeland Security. He appears to have been promoted.