Christopher Odell
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Lawyer. City mouse. Philadelphian in exile.
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Steve Vladeck
about 17 hours ago
We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:
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https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/judicial_complaints/files/2025/06-25-90173(Chad.MO.pdf
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Totally. Out. Of control. This is just outrageous.
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about 17 hours ago
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Yep, classic Antifa terrorist types right here. Oma and Opa were clearly out looking for violence, and not just bringing some hot dish to the Elks lodge.
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4 days ago
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So it was never about âsecuring the border.â
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Steve Vladeck
6 days ago
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHSâs arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is âunder review,â and canât be shared. Well, hereâs a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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Kyle Cheney
7 days ago
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Murderers. Totally lawless and out of control.
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8 days ago
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Again â if he were a paid Kremlin agent, what would he be doing differently?
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âKidnappers gave victim fast foodâ
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8 days ago
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The worst of the worst. Do you feel safer now?
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9 days ago
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Michael Clemens
9 days ago
âIf the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.â Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Chris Sims
9 days ago
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
10 days ago
Tomorrowâs front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Don Moynihan
10 days ago
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
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The New Republic
14 days ago
The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be straightforward about that. Itâs obvious that, whatever else is on the reconstruction agenda, ICE abolition must be included. For goodnessâ sake, Bill Kristol is in favor of it. Can you really not get there?
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This is such a nightmare. And itâs playing out all across the country.
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17 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
20 days ago
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)
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Joshua J. Friedman
20 days ago
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditionsâor whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
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The Bulwark
20 days ago
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?" Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcementâŚLaw enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
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Dom Ervolina
22 days ago
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Greg Sargent
24 days ago
Followed by this:
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Michelangelo Signorile
about 1 month ago
Two stories side by side in WashPost
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MoveOn
3 months ago
Now is the time to fight, not surrender. đŁď¸ Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emergeâsomeone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
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Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/10/schumer-progressive-democrats-moveon
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Tom Joscelyn
4 months ago
âI spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.â - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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Iâm a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-citizen-and-a-veteran-ice?utm_campaign=post
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Federal Border Patrol agents assaulting unarmed civilians in Illinois. Violence is escalating â by design.
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4 months ago
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Teen Vogue
6 months ago
Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so itâs important to know your rights before youâre face-to-face with ICE agents. While thereâs never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, hereâs what they can and canât legally do to you and what you can legally demand. âŹď¸
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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?
Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-raids-what-are-your-rights-know-you-rights
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BeardedGenius
6 months ago
Arguably the greatest thing ever committed to print
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derek guy
6 months ago
Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
6 months ago
That The Hill of all places is publishing this is quite remarkable.
thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Trumpâs mental decline is undeniable â so what now?
hemselves, that there is a problem, just as Bidenâs supporters did for him.  Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family frienâŚ
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs/
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Spencer Ackerman
7 months ago
"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. âWe have not heard from these peopleâs families, so I think perhaps even they donât know," one lawyer said.
https://www.404media.co/flight-manifests-reveal-dozens-of-previously-unknown-people-on-three-deportation-flights-to-el-salvador/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=68791812d1dfc400016abc44&attribution_type=post
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
7 months ago
âIt turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patelâs enemies list. How did Bongino find out about this private friendship? I honestly donât know. ⌠I faced a choice: get demoted or resign.â
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Mark Harris
7 months ago
The New York Times might want to read up on when it's appropriate to use anonymous sources, according to (checks notes) The New York Times, from an article dated 6/11/25.
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Chris Hayes
7 months ago
A journalistic principle Iâve come to believe in quite strongly, thanks to experience of the Sony and Podesta hacks, is that bar for publishing stories based on *hacked* material should be quite high. It really should be unambiguously newsworthy to clear it.
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capitolhunters
7 months ago
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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Aaron Rupar
7 months ago
McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."
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READ THIS.
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7 months ago
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Yâall will be cool when President Ocasio-Cortez ousts Texas A&Mâs president for failing to install enough gender-neutral bathrooms, right?
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Mark D. Levine
7 months ago
Due to dangerous heat wave, NYC is opening 500 cooling centers all over the five boroughs. Will be open today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. See locations & hours here:
maps.nyc.gov/cooling-center/
Please check in on vulnerable neighbors.
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Steve Mullis
7 months ago
RĂźmeysa ĂztĂźrk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.laqG.vT5eF0vuYMkF&smid=url-share
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John Foley
8 months ago
Amazing lol
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Brian Cardone
8 months ago
đ¨đ¨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans!
#MAGAKidnappers
want an all white America, fuck thatâźď¸
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Seth Abramson
8 months ago
Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state
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âItâs bullshit.â See how easy that was,
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Burgess Everett
8 months ago
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Leeâs top staffers on Monday about âhow much additional pain youâve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekendâ Full emails below
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Adam Schwarz
8 months ago
Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.
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Kye
8 months ago
TYRANNY IS HERE: US citizen, minding his own business on his way to work, gets ambushed by ICE, dragged out of his car, thrown in cuffs, and treated like a criminal â in his own country. This is the price you pay for simply existing in America today.
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The New Yorker
8 months ago
An advance look at âOn Parade,â David Plunkertâs cover for next week's issue.
#NewYorkerCovers
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David Corn
8 months ago
Hard to believe that conspiracy-monger, disinformationist, and anti-vax activist RFK Jr. had a plan to undermine the nation's vaccine system and did not share that with US senators during his confirmation hearings.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
8 months ago
New moment of âWTFâ: -pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity) -nl times: reach out to CDC for testing -now: âthey confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serologyâŚthey suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Centerâ đłđłđł
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