Of course Jane Goodall had a sense of humor❤️

The lack of fire from Democrats is bad, but I would argue “the hardest thing to tolerate” is that the Republican party is in charge of all major branches of government and they are completely supine. They have the power and the duty to do something and they are not.

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns. As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

Nicely done.

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

Cardozomatli

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

This has been a miserable season for Mookie Betts. Mysterious illness, loses 20 pounds, takes months to get his strength back, playing SS for the first time, sapped of his power, doubting himself, loss in the family. Nightmare. He's at 4.9 WAR, 12th in the NL, above Schwarber and Tucker.

I’ve been saying for years that it should be illegal to email me

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

H-2A visas are certain to remain in high demand, experts say. But without reform, instances of abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers are likely to increase too. Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

The University of Hawai'i and the Research Corporation of UH receive the most H-1B visas of any employer in Hawaii every year because of the university employer exemption to the H-1B cap. Foreign scholars and doctors are vital, especially in rural and remote areas of the US.

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

Judge Boulware (Federal District Court, Nevada) issues injunction rejecting Trump Administration's mass detention policy which (illegally) denied bond to most undocumented immigrants while they fight their deportations.

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

"In the era of Trump, censorship... very likely will target the economic infrastructure of speech rather than speech itself. But this does not make it any less a threat to the democratic values that the First Amendment is supposed to protect." A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Props to Bernice Yeung and collaborators for this story on how resources formerly dedicated to investigating and prosecuting human trafficking and child exploitation have been diverted to mass deportation under the Trump administration.

와 such a nice surprise. The flowers are from an immigration attorney on the continent whom I helped with a filing last Friday. The tea, a gift from thoughtful students. Last week was so busy. I am so grateful for my hard-working team. My heart is full.

A kāhea. Please sign, repost, and share broadly especially if in Hawaii. Let’s show that Hawaii is united behind Hawaiians. #hawaii, #kanakasky

Also brave and caring

Very brave

Inspiring article (gift link) highlighting the important role that a group of student activists from the Pacific Islands played in bringing about the International Court of Justice's momentous climate ruling. Features Solomon Yeo, a recent LLM student @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social.

When I asked about his goals for the new school year, my younger kid said, learning Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" on the sax

Inspiring article (gift link) highlighting the important role that a group of student activists from the Pacific Islands played in bringing about the International Court of Justice's momentous climate ruling. Features Solomon Yeo, a recent LLM student @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

IME: You're a young Latina woman with lawful status at home with young kids. You hear ICE agents, having just arrested your neighbor with a warrant, demand to enter your home. You ask to see a warrant. They say this is not how things work and kick down your door. Kids start crying, your dog barking.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Surprised to learn SCOTUS is writing ICE fan fic... Oh wait, this is an actual opinion.

Grateful

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

Now that I am home, here are my post-completion thoughts on the #Zcavengerhunt. First off: it was much more fun than I thought it would be, and that was largely due to how well it was organized, how it encouraged participants to talk to each other, and the spirit of the event.

But...but *you're* the mayor right now

NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect. The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Last month, the government began claiming that every person who ever entered the US illegally is ineligible for bond. This argument has been failing miserably in court so far.

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about