The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

He's describing the Wisdom in the sci fi book Some Desperate Glory, and I'm not sure that's the way forward. Governments and legal systems are meant to be reflections of the community. There is never a "right" answer, just one that is acceptable to most people

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Random posters said that Biden should ignore court orders, and the media had a field day over it. This is straight from the horse's mouth! Trump says court orders are invalid! Holy shit, get to it!

*Manifesting the Christopher Ghest movie about the prosecution of the sandwich guy case*

The right wing and "radical centrist" (right wing) takeover of mainstream media has been shitty, but this is a total body blow. One of the few outlets doing real political reporting taken out by a corporation deciding that it's bottom line is better served by capitulating, and we're all worse off

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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Most people, given the option of eliminating a historical movement, would probably choose Nazism or something similar, but the GOP is dead set instead on undoing groundbreaking public health advancements, the New Deal, and constitutional democracy while embracing literal Nazis

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Can't get over this. Trans veterans with breast cancer *caused by burn pits on deployment* are being denied care only because of their gender identity, and at best it's getting lost in the noise, and at worst, Democrats like Gavin Newsom keep insisiting on treating trans folks as less than human

So excited to finally share the campaign that we have been working on to build a lawyers movement against authoritarianism, with a kickoff event outside of the Supreme Court on 11/15 and building toward nationwide engagement of lawyers and law students peoplesparity.org/event/lawyer...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Literally the Nazis' political justification for genocide. The "final solution" was called that because it addressed the "Jewish problem" imagined by Nazi leadership and the fact that most Germans were food insecure. Eliminate the Jews in Germany, give more food to "proper" Germans = final solution

Remember when the Supreme Court gave a pass to a state that created a private right of action crafted with the purpose of evading federal law and judicial review? States should experiment with a similar law to allow damages actions against federal agents in state court. That'll go over well.

I know we're all traumatized by Trump surviving COVID in his first term, but does anyone really believe that this rotting meatsack will still be alive in 2028?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I made an off-hand comment about ICE to my kids the other day that my former cop dad overheard and lost his mind because it hit too close to home. I'm sure it makes a difference

Worked up this whole piece, and then Stephen Miller just tweeted it out so to speak. The Supreme Court has provided the legal justifications for a full-on white supremacist to sic federal agents on our people with no accountability, and ICE knows it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is amazing

Sat down with @fpwellman.bsky.social today to discuss the Supreme Court's complicity in Trump's authoritarianism and how lawyers and law students can start organizing among themselves and in support of broader movements to take their work beyond our captured courts

Jacobin covering itself in glory as always

Trump's friends can illegally fund DOD to kill people overseas, but none will provide funding to keep poor kids alive, and if that's not the perfect story of modern America, I don't know what is

Troops being paid by a private entity makes them a private army.

Wouldn't have thought this was possible so soon, but to me the Platner tattoo thing has already displaced Charlie Kirk's killing as the worst news cycle that refuses to die when it should have been met with a Seinfeld type "that's a shame." How are people still defending this shit?

"Cancel culture" grievance tour dropping in 5, 4, 3, 2... ICE is hiring, man. I bet a Nazi tat would get you an even bigger sign-on bonus over there

This is fucking insane

Remember when Democrats were correctly upset about Elon throwing a couple of Nazi salutes at the inauguration? Can we get back to at least that extremely basic level of moral clarity regarding Nazi imagery?

The way that non-veterans weaponize their buddies' veteran status will never stop pissing me off. My read from in-person veterans groups and online communities has been basically that we've seen plenty of unfortunate tattoos, but not really any from literal goddamned SS units

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

The Supreme Court has functionally legalized these tramplings of constitutional rights, prioritizing the comfort of government agents over the rights of the people they terrorize: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @ballsandstrikes.org

You may enjoy: thewarhorse.org/the-army-mad...

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

Love living in a superpowered rogue state supporting a smaller rogue state.

Santos is only 37! Damn man, I definitely thought he was in his mid-forties and had just had a bunch of work done (not mutually exclusive apparently). MAGA does--and makes you choose to do--weird things to your bodies

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

"Have a great life!" You put in your time as a Republican lackey, and now you can be on your way, regardless of your actions or values. MAGA, and thank you for your attention to this matter!

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

lmao, went looking for an old post from before Charlie Kirk got vaxxed and came across this one. What a fucking asshole

Ron Wyden hasn't died or something, right? Because all six of his state and DC offices are going to voicemail right now

I was like 16 when my (small) city cop dad explained to me how he couldn't make a case against a Mexican immigrant, so as soon as the DA declined to bring charges, he dropped the guy off with ICE so they could get him anyway. They deported him based on the arrest, despite being here legally

Jesus, they're going to send them to Guantanamo now, right?

Do you understand how reactionary you had to be for lawyers in the *Reagan Justice Department* to remember you as a “zealot” for making it harder for Black people to vote ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

Wrote this piece about how the Supreme Court has made it basically impossible for anyone terrorized by ICE to sue for damages in federal court, but feeling a little better reading the @statecourtreport.org piece on state remedies today! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Check out Harrison Stark's @statecourtreport.org piece exploring the long history -- and present possibility -- of suing federal officials under state law. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

It was absolutely not a mistake that the blatantly white supremacist second Trump administration killed anything approaching environmental justice first thing when they came to power

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...