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This is welcomed news...just a few months after the ruling...in one of the most liberal counties...in Maryland. Forgive me for remaining guarded about this new precedent that I think will be disruptive and censoring in other parts of the country soon enough.

An enterprising journalist that could prove that his aides and advisors are showing Trump fake shit that led to him signing EOs and making policy decisions would be a huge deal. Maybe the biggest story in the history of the Presidency? Bigger than Nixon. Too bad the newspapers quit being newspapers

Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested and detained for almost two months for writing an op-ed in her school newspaper. They wanted to deport her Dr. Badar Khan Suri had his visa rescinded and he was arrested for his social media posts. The Trump administration is still trying to deport him

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Agree. I showed the movie reenactment of this scene to my students this semester and we discussed satyagraha as an ethic & tactic

I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall. (And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)

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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023 www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

The "tariff shelf."🙄 Yeah of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. I will never for the life of me understand the people who think this delusional and mendacious fool is the only person they can trust to tell them the truth.

US citizen and army veteran attacked and held without charge for 3 days by federal agents. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a sixth day. Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status, a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis.

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash. Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances. It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Constitutional checks on power is not terrorism. First Amendment protected free speech is not terrorism. Criticism is not terrorism. The right of the people to peacefully assemble and address grievances toward their government is not terrorism. Speak truth to power. Always.

A "pro-Palestine' march passes me in Bath. Perhaps they're good people, I think to myself. The hippyish Quakers I remember from, say, being a member of Bath CND in the 80s. They're not *necessarily* antisemites, I say. So I check out their X feed. And it's awful.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

The government shutdown is in its 4th day and Donald Trump just arrived at his golf course.

Every American should be cork-popping furious and outspoken, loudly, at this daily jackbooted thuggery by agents of the US government. Stephen Miller needs to end up at The Hague.

Speak up! Act up! Show up! #DefendersOfDemocracy #SheShed

Fascists doing fascist violent things. #Pinks

A lawless paradigm shift for which the SCOTUS is to blame: we are swiftly moving away from the legitimacy of the mediation that rightly says, “this isn’t legal,” to the tyranny of a special pleading that *functions* as though the word of Trump is itself the law, higher than the Constitution.

Now the US and Canada will both have “loonies” for $1 coins.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

good morning from the ice detention center in broadview, illinois. these regular friday morning protests have grown in size and intensity since ice began its deportation surge last month. masked ice agents in cars are coming/going. broadview police on scene helping ice navigate through protesters.

The Trump Administration is trying to provoke a violent response so they can militarize the streets. The only violence now is coming from ICE.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Gov. JB Pritzker: "Regardless of immigration status, you have rights. My administration is working to protect every Chicago resident from federal intimidation, but we are better prepared when we know how to protect ourselves and protect our neighbors." Learn more at Chicago.gov/Protect

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

7. In recent years, platforms like Disney have curtailed LGBTQ+ programming. In 2022, Disney+ Junior Mode removed shows with LGBTQ+ characters, such as the popular Owl House. More recently, the platform removed references to a transgender character’s gender identity in the Pixar series Win or Lose.

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/govern...

Never should have stopped calling these guys weird. They're so freaking weird.

Watch the NPR interview here: youtu.be/phjuIezI7R4?...

And one guy just got shot dead after dropping his kids to school. They said he was a criminal; in fact, it turned out he had no record at all.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/tr...