The America I love is the one that welcomes Arthur Liu - a refugee from communist oppression - and his daughter becomes an Olympic gold medalist! I don't love the America that excludes people like him, or deports them back to their oppressors, as right now with many Cubans, Venezuelans, and others.

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

Seth Meyers was right

The investigations into all this by the next Congress/admin are going to be unbelievable

Republicans increasingly want to see Kristi Noem gone. Noem's response to a fatal shooting by agents in Minneapolis will "forever undermine trust" with Americans, Utah Sen. John Curtis said Thursday. ow.ly/52Xz50Yixo1

ICE are still here.

A coworker who grew up in China in the 80s started telling me today that our dictatorship isn’t so bad, she’s seen worse

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@unicornriot.bsky.social whatchoo been up to?

This isn't the whole story. bsky.app/profile/jane...

Sounds like this guy won't work to hold Trump and other GOP criminals accountable. If he's gonna be Mr. Kumbaya, I'm a hard no and I suspect most Dem primary voters will feel likewise.

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A one-man tour-de-force of corruption, using his money and connections everywhere he went to build networks which would prevent anyone from holding him accountable.

/2 The best part of this is Wexner’s expression and gesture in response conveying “yeah, okay, fair.” So he’s been well-prepared.

Note the last sentence. Impunity starts early in this society.

Right?

I don't know what is going to happen. But I would recommend not getting your hopes up about Texas. I speak from experience.

Well, I think we can all agree that capital N National, capital S Security has tripled.

… which is why I stole it from Reagan. (Or Octavia Butler. But I’m betting against Trump being a big reader of… well anything, but Octavia Butler especially.)

Holy shit - he actually said this

i feel like half the discussion about the Confederacy in the Civil War doesn't even get into how fucking nasty the irregular guerilla combat was

Does she know who was President at the time, and in charge of all federal prisons?

Look, I don't know if anything underhanded went on, but it's amazing to me when people who think he was killed blame it on the Clintons, when Trump was the one in charge at the time.

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

Half of the banned items are a master course in lawful extremism by describing things no one is actually teaching (there is a "singular cause" of inequality) in order to prevent any discussion of inequality whatsoever, while the other half are just "women and minorities suck, deal with it."

It's wild that this is a government document, and it's even wilder that we can't take for granted it will be thrown out in court.

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the lady straight up says she'd do it again even knowing the kid would get encephalitis. what else might she do to the other children she hasn't killed yet?

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Defender Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third women’s hockey gold medal with a 2-1 victory over Canada at the Milan Cortina Games to close another thrilling chapter of one of sports most heated rivalries.

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He was lead counsel on a class action verdict AGAINST Monsanto, no?

Invoking the Defense Production Act to spur the domestic production of glyphosate is a gross abuse of presidential authority. US agriculture is at not at risk. What is at risk is the nation's health. Glyphosate is a known carcinogen.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA “Woah, I thought we were just having a good time here! This unitary executive thing was small time. I don’t know what these crazy kids are up to nowadays.”

In other words, conservative legalists thought doctrine would trump the drift of an idea rooted in a plebiscitary presidency. But once you say the admin state is the manifestation of one guy’s will, it’s only a matter of time until we elect the Bad Man who turns against the law.

And these are just the non-adjusted refugees who already have applications pending.

So what’s the endgame here?

If the capability has been in development for weeks, and if (as suggested by the president) there's latitude re whether this would have to take place immediately, plenty of time in there for cong'l authorization -- which if received would enhance negotiating credibility. Legal niceties aside.

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

Considering that Harry is closer in line to inheriting the crown it's extra odd.

On a domestic airline flight. Lots of people (25-30%?) watching the women’s hockey gold medal game on their separate screens. When the winning shot went through, the plane burst into cheers and applause (to the surprise, of course, of passengers doing other things). It was nice.

I am awaiting the start of the U.H.A. v. Bondi preliminary injunction hearing. Credentialed media have remote access, but Law Dork's request for a public-access line was denied by the magistrate judge yesterday. Background:

2/ "Lower standards"🚨 "Patel to elim requirement that support staff already working in FBI who apply to bcome special agents sit for interview & complete writing assessmt Instead existing employees who pass written exam online..able to go directly to FBI academy in Quantico for new agent training"

You know why it's called Bee Movie? Because the bees decide who the actors are.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social is losing its f-ing mind; worth tuning in.

The legal questions about this are fun, in part because this governments position on laws they don’t appreciate is: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country? Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...