Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

if you're writing about DC losing control of its police department today, just months ago the same basic thing happened in St. Louis (and more durably): boltsmag.org/missouri-sta...

NEW in Bolts: The sheriff of Buffalo, a Republican, is overseeing a deadly jail system — despite promises of change of reform, little has changed since he took over. This year, he’s running for re-election. Unopposed. The local Dem chair has said the sheriff is “very successful.”

Very happy to share that my article "Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework" is now out #FirstView from @apsrjournal - Here is the link: Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework - cup.org/452m5EH And here is the abstract:

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🔴 Boğaziçi Üniversitesi mezuniyetinde “Kayyımlar gidecek biz kalacağız” pankartı açan öğrencinin yüksek lisans kabulü iptal edildi; okula girişi yasaklandı! t24.com.tr/haber/bogazi...

This is monstrous.

New CFP from the journal Democratic Theory inviting "short and standalone research notes, called ‘dispatches from the field’, of around 3,500 words. We welcome your diagnoses, illuminations, responses, accounts, etc., regarding democracy under challenge...by the authoritarianisms around you"

A hospital in rural Nebraska has announced its closing. The CEO faults the "anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid:" www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...

Huge win for the Trump administration will remake a lot of things, and a farcical turnaround from how SCOTUS allowed courts to proceed under Biden.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

Bloomberg pouring $5 million to help Cuomo, with 10 days to go: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

First know your rights, then share your rights. Download our Know Your Rights graphic and use it as your phone screen when going to protests.

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

I can’t compete with this

Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...

I was appalled reading this horrific piece in the New Yorker yesterday. This thread is doing an excellent job exposing the false equivocations and mischaracterizations that shape the whole piece…

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that will cut billions of dollars from Medicaid. Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of people across the country, including more than 15 million people with disabilities. The Senate must reject this dangerous bill.

BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced it has filed charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was demanding accountability on behalf of the people she was elected to represent. President Trump is trying to bully people into silence. We won’t let him.

It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick.

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners? TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk has been granted bail by a federal court in Vermont. With this ruling, she will be able to return to her Massachusetts community and continue her studies while the case proceeds. She never should have been locked up for exercising her First Amendment rights.

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

The Twitter (X) account of Ekrem Imamoglu, the imprisoned Istanbul Mayor and presidential candidate, was withheld following last night's major demonstration in Beyazıt.

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

Last week the Trump administration fired another 8 immigration judges. One judge was fired in the middle of an asylum hearing and had to walk off the bench before the hearing was over! There are now nearly 50 FEWER immigration judges than when Trump took office!

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

Yikes. They're complying with Erdogan's suppression of opposition.

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

“We're not talking about some petty crimes here. We're talking about speech and beliefs that the U.S. finds so dangerous, so intolerable in this country, the U.S. government's scared of it and therefore has to banish people who hold those beliefs.” — Baher Azmy, Legal Director

In Yozgat, one of Turkey’s most conservative cities and considered a stronghold of the ruling party, the opposition is holding a very large rally. Not only MPs but also farmers took the stage. Today feels like a sign of a major change.

The White House just posted this on X.

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

as we keep getting reports like this, it's still unclear how many Americans are affected because DHS has not provided numbers on citizens detained by immigration authorities and isn't answering Congressional inquiries about them www.propublica.org/article/more...

Law enforcement wearing masks, again, even as one of the Trump administration conditions for universities is that no-one can wear a mask that disrupts their surveillance.

I hope there is a habeas petition already filed in Vermont.

Our black site locations are classified except for our propaganda photo-ops

“…a comprehensive turn away from US assets…” Gosh, I wonder why? FFS

I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

And graft

Repeat after me - there is no plan. The entire global economy hangs on the whims of one guy. Also, Howard Lutnick promised me all those millions of jobs screwing tiny screws into iPhones were coming back to the United States.

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.