Andy Genz
@ajgenz.bsky.social
Dad, immigrant rights advocate, lawyer, DC resident, jogger
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The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.
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It doesn't get you off the command responsibility hook to say you were too stupid and incompetent to realize you were flippantly ordering a crime.
OK, This NYT Hegseth PR piece is unbelievable, but I want to point out two specific ways why.
1. "As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him."
This sentence says nothing new, and only raises further questions about WHY NOT; it does not clear him.
1. "As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him."
This sentence says nothing new, and only raises further questions about WHY NOT; it does not clear him.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It doesn't get you off the command responsibility hook to say you were too stupid and incompetent to realize you were flippantly ordering a crime.
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“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.”
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ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews include military spouses
These kinds of arrests began Nov. 12, multiple immigration attorneys say, many adding they had never seen anything like this before.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I think this is true but our zombie both sides media insists on extending maximal charity to any argument from republicans, and the thing is that this is indisputably a war crime *even granting their bullshit arguments*.
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think this is true but our zombie both sides media insists on extending maximal charity to any argument from republicans, and the thing is that this is indisputably a war crime *even granting their bullshit arguments*.
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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This is a long but well worthwhile piece. Clinically scathing of Roberts and his legacy.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is a long but well worthwhile piece. Clinically scathing of Roberts and his legacy.
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Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
I like “Zillow Ed,” almost as much as I like “Pete Hagueseth”
if Zillow Ed is saying you've not only done crimes but that an OLC opinion won't immunize you, you may want to start making travel plans to a non-extradition country that also ignores the ICC
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I like “Zillow Ed,” almost as much as I like “Pete Hagueseth”
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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg gives Trump admin one week to file affidavits from all officials involved in decision to carry out Alien Enemies Act deportation to El Salvador despite Boasberg's order to turn the planes around. 'Contempt prosecution' could follow www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Boasberg112825.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg gives Trump admin one week to file affidavits from all officials involved in decision to carry out Alien Enemies Act deportation to El Salvador despite Boasberg's order to turn the planes around. 'Contempt prosecution' could follow www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
The “MAHA pitch,” echoed a volume on Civil War Medicine: if all medicines and medical knowledge were sent to the bottom of the ocean, we would be better off and the fish would be worse off.
That may have been true in 1866, but it’s not true today. The sentiment remains potent, however
That may have been true in 1866, but it’s not true today. The sentiment remains potent, however
The MAHA pitch was supposed to be that Americans don’t really need insurance, vaccines, or other “establishment” medical care — they just need better nutrition and less exposure to environmental toxins.
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos
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November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The “MAHA pitch,” echoed a volume on Civil War Medicine: if all medicines and medical knowledge were sent to the bottom of the ocean, we would be better off and the fish would be worse off.
That may have been true in 1866, but it’s not true today. The sentiment remains potent, however
That may have been true in 1866, but it’s not true today. The sentiment remains potent, however
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Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
A succinct synopsis of much of Trumpism that’s not authoritarian or corrupt:
“.. It just seems petty and hostile, frankly,” said Peter Staley, a longtime activist ..”
@nytimes.com
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November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A succinct synopsis of much of Trumpism that’s not authoritarian or corrupt:
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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I second the motion to adopt this term.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I second the motion to adopt this term.
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The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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REUTERS tries to quantify Trump’s “sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies ..”
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
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The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
REUTERS tries to quantify Trump’s “sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies ..”
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.