My first book, Takeover, was about Dick Cheney's quest to expand presidential power (or "restore" it, as he saw it, to the level it had reached when Nixon was president, before Watergate). First two chapters, including Cheney's rise, free here: charliesavage.com/books/takeov...

How can it be that Dick Cheney was 84 this entire time?

www.aclu.org/careers/appl... These are the best jobs. #jobs

I know you're busy. We're all busy. But it is SO, SO important to show up for freedom and democracy on Saturday. There are hundreds of events planned; find one near you here: www.nokings.org

Find a demonstration near you: www.nokings.org#map

www.acludc.org/jobs/staff-a... #jobs

@flohmann.bsky.social on Prop. 50: "for those who hate this partisan gerrymandering race to the bottom, I hear you, but a principled stand in California won’t restore fairness in the face of gerrymandering everywhere else" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's great that some of the charges against journalist @bubbaprog.xyz were thrown out. We needed some good news. We wrote last year about why the rest should be tossed too. It's not journalists' job to keep corporations' secrets, and it's not computer fraud when they report what they find online.

ACLU SoCal is hiring! #jobs They are looking for a Senior Staff Attorney or Staff Attorney to work full-time on our Immigrants’ Rights team, with a focus on Kern County. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

@nyclu.org (New York Civil Liberties Union) is hiring for a two-year litigation and related-advocacy position – the Richard Feldman Legal Fellowship – which will primarily focus on the rights of LGBTQ communities and gender equity. recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

New Hampshire has a Right of Revolution clause: “...Whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. 1/2

The ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social is hiring for an IR staff-attorney position as well as a supervising-attorney position that will ideally include a partial focus in either IR or 1A. www.aclufl.org/jobs/supervi... www.aclufl.org/jobs/staff-a...

51st.news/dc-residents... I've been guilty of saying that we are "powerless" against the deportation machine, but I was being too grandiose. DC shows us how to "look for the helpers", and find ways to be one.

SFO-LAS for #BlackHat25. Unfortunately can't stay through the weekend :-( but I'm hoping to see friends, not get locked into the utility stairway like that one time, and give a great talk on Thursday morning.

How is it possible that a far right podcaster Jack Posobiec, quoted in like the 15th paragraph, is the only person in this article who realizes that the woman serving a 20 year sentence might have an incentive to lie so that she can get a pardon from Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The @nytimes.com deserves credit for the video analysis reporting it does, like this important story: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Has this happened to anyone else? Arriving SFO, I declined to have my photo taken at immigration. At some point, CBP asked me were whether I like to read, if I had any books with me, and ¡what the titles were! I asked why they ask and agent said that in the scanner, books can look like currency. 1

Why is the press reporting that the concentration camp plan is for immigrants who are here illegally? ICE is currently deporting people here legally, including a smattering of American citizens. That's not going to change. So, the camps will be for brown people. Just say the truth, MSM.

Why adopt the euphemism "regime change"? It's overthrowing a foreign government.

Good for the NYT presenting interviews with Iranians endangered by missile strikes. We don't see a lot of coverage of Iranian civilians. International news is an economic loss for newspapers, but so very important.

Yes, NYT. ICE agents arrested him. Why does the Washington Post say he was detained? Detained means stopped and delayed. Arrested is what happens when you are pushed up against the wall and taken away in handcuffs. Which is what these ICE agents did. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

Hey, MSM: Teen Vogue is carrying the water for all y'all www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Be safe out there.

Protestors: If you spray paint your slogans on buildings, more often than not it is an immigrant who has to scrub it off.

Kleptocracy at New College of Florida Money donated to support student education being redirected to pay the bloated >$1m/year salary of the new president. suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...

Seven of the articles on my WaPo Top Stories page are about Trump v Musk, including the 4 first. Maybe this is selling papers, so I get it, but this fight is not important news. Also, everyone who sucks up to Trump gets screwed over in the end. Predictable. You can start writing the Vance story now.

The Internet is delightful, Day 5 Simone Giertz creates things you didn't know you needed, but you absolutely do, like a chair with built in stairs so your little dog can climb up or a dinner table where you never have to put away your jigsaw puzzle. www.youtube.com/@simonegiertz

Fun Internet thing Day 4: During the pandemic we all learned to play online games with our friends, but there's no need to stop now. These games are fun, and can easily be played with someone across the country, or while a teenager hangs out in her room. skribbl.io codenames.game

We just sued Sonoma County for its warrantless drone program. With 700+ flights logged, county agents routinely launch low-altitude drones that invade people’s privacy in and around their homes. This violates the California Constitution, full stop.

A week.

Internet Joy: Read Buy Nothing Groups. Your neighbors are conservationists, anti-capitalists, bargain hunters, and weirdos. Someone want a cake that has been dropped on the floor but might be fun for a child to squish their hands in? Three pairs of almost new period panties? TAXIDERMY MONKEY?

Day Two of "Delightful things on the Internet": Nerdforge. This magical library inside a coffee table is so charming, and the build is amazing. www.youtube.com/watc...

I had to check twice to make sure this wasn't NYT Pitchbot. How shameful.

Six months.

Prediction: In one year, Trump's DOJ will be investigating Elon, probably for wire fraud. Is there a betting site where I can put money on this?

This week I'm going to do little shout-outs to people who are making the Internet tolerable right now. Day One: The Big Bear Eagles. www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagles/

ACLU KYR Training: aclu.org/kyrtraining

People Power is the ACLU's platform for grassroots action, where volunteers like you mobilize communities to defend and advance civil rights and liberties for all. Join us at www.aclu.org/volunteer.

Follow this thread to understand more about NSO Group, spyware, and it's connection to surveillance of US citizens.

Something cool, when you are taking a break from doomscrolling: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...?

The Times has problems, but this is why I continue to subscribe: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

If the government can do this to Mahmoud Khalil, they can do it to any of us. We won't back down until Mahmoud and all those unjustly detained by ICE are free.

Clown Show or Chicken Shit?

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Too many people have forgotten that the principles behind the US demand that we welcome people who come here is for freedom of speech, of thought, of assembly, of petitioning the government for change.

Dear @schumer.senate.gov : Thanks for your tone deaf fundraising letter. If we are in a national emergency, why are you conducting the Senate like it's business as usual?

What Eva said.

Perhaps Paul Weiss can show that it is not captive to Trump's agenda by donating its legal services to represent Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor in defending themselves from Trump's retaliatory "investigation". Somehow, I doubt it.