Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn't all that long ago that we were going to have internet in our schools. Now, let's do A1."

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

This is the ruling class, right here. Not your asshole MAGA neighbor, not the guy in your building who buttonholes you so he can tell you what he heard on Rogan. Those people are, at worst, aspirants to this sort of evil. The people who commit it are the signatories here.

incredibly depressing to read the replies here. "this is what they voted for" is just the stupidest, meanest response and if you start writing it please do yourself and me a favor and log off and pet the cat or something

As I wrote, elite lawlessness also proves out the basic premise of Trumpism, which is that all of governance is finally just rich creeps doing whatever they want, whenever they want; the degeneracy of the people doing it, and what they do, is a self-perpetuating thing. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

didn’t we used to have a word for this

Seems bad

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳

House Republicans used the hearing as an opportunity to force NPR and PBS’ top leaders to apologize for covering the news in ways they found to be not adequately in line with their own talking points.

I retraced the paths of Venezuelans who the administration removed to El Salvador. What became clear very fast is that these people were intentionally staged for immediate removal under the Alien Enemies Act in a process that began long before it was invoked talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

(Reuters) - The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters. #BigBalls

Substantial jump in the % of people who think they'll have lower income in the next 6 months

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When asked about the consequences of such an action — if it were to happen — Lieu, matter of factly, said: “We would instantly become an authoritarian country.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

TPM’s reporting shows that federal officials went to extraordinary lengths to conceal weeks of preparations for the removals. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

This is a shocking, harrowing and 100% true story: miketanier.substack.com/p/the-pittsb...

In the statement, sent to me by the New York City Bar Monday, the bar associations said Trump’s latest actions against law firms “violate fundamental principles of our legal system.” More here:

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New: The Alien Enemies Act hearing with Judge Boasberg is about to begin. I'll follow along here

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One hour into the energy ceasefire

Wrote this a couple years ago, think it holds up

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I cannot imagine how many seniors, lacking the acuity and means of the man in this story, will be left destitute bc of the whims of some of the richest people on the planet www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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The Trump Democrats bsky.app/profile/pale...

The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38. The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants: Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH)

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

So every night on the news this season, I heard about Joel Embiid not playing consecutive nights because of [knee | weight | reasons | vibes], saw Nurse at the mic looking like he wants the sweet embrace of death...but Morey could've run this through BrickGPT and the season wdn't ended up a wreck?

is there are a better argument against A.I. than this?

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Again, Trump has rescinded federal grants and clawed back hundreds of millions if not billions in appropriations *she approved* by fiat. If the Senate doesn’t use what remains of its power to push back, there’s no Senate.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Presidents with trifectas, recognizing how fleeting that control is, usually rush to shepherd through their priorities: ACA + stimulus for Obama, tax cuts for Trump, COVID relief + chunks of BBB for Biden. You could be forgiven for forgetting that Trump has one now, so uninterested is he in using it

DOGE's email telling federal workers to justify their jobs by submitting a list of accomplishments went to judicial branch employees, including some federal judges. Court administrators advised employees not to reply. New from @joshkovensky.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judicia...

This is taking something that like would have been a Russian conspiracy theory from a few years ago and willing it into being

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Emilia Perez was so bad. It was a musical in which nobody can sing. What are we doin

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