Andrew Selbst
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
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Why, given the reality of the role, should ICE officers be armed at all?
If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Why, given the reality of the role, should ICE officers be armed at all?
If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
Other countries have to be insane to send their teams here right now.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons says that ICE will be a key part of World Cup security.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Other countries have to be insane to send their teams here right now.
It’s been over a year of this. That’s definitely enough for judges to start cracking down.
good thread documenting what's going on here but I think it's important to emphasize this is 100% on the judges. If every DoJ attorney headed into federal court knew that this sort of behavior would result in immediate sanctions or recommendations for disbarment from a federal judge, it would end.
NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
It’s been over a year of this. That’s definitely enough for judges to start cracking down.
More of this. Every single Dem senator needs a challenger to the left.
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
More of this. Every single Dem senator needs a challenger to the left.
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The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
More and more I worry about how hard they’re trying to make it for legislators to do site visits. If they go from concentration camps to death camps, will we even know?
Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.
Dear all saying no worries, Trump can't round up 10M immigrants because their work is needed for the US economy: please, remember that MOST of the camps in Germany from 1938 were "Arbeitslager" - labor camps. Deporting people is hard. But locking people up and making them work, that's been done. 1/
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM
More and more I worry about how hard they’re trying to make it for legislators to do site visits. If they go from concentration camps to death camps, will we even know?
Like Lucy with the football but instead of taking the football away, she’s shooting an innocent person on the street.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Like Lucy with the football but instead of taking the football away, she’s shooting an innocent person on the street.
JFC this is hard to read
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
JFC this is hard to read
What about the % that think he acts unethically and enthusiastically support it?
% of White evangelicals who are extremely/very confident that Donald Trump acts ethically in office 📉
55% in early 2025
40% in early 2026
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
55% in early 2025
40% in early 2026
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
What about the % that think he acts unethically and enthusiastically support it?
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this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight
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I worked on the emergency teams preparing for 2 Super Bowls in previous decades. We were focused on international terrorist threats, not threats from our own federal government.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
As the Patriots take the field tonight, every fan should be able to enjoy the game without fear.
Like the patriots of 1776, we must demand a future free from authoritarian violence.
Defund and abolish this violent agency and keep them out of the Super Bowl.
Like the patriots of 1776, we must demand a future free from authoritarian violence.
Defund and abolish this violent agency and keep them out of the Super Bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I worked on the emergency teams preparing for 2 Super Bowls in previous decades. We were focused on international terrorist threats, not threats from our own federal government.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
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The Trump administration is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to override state AI consumer protection laws, but the agency’s power is constrained by federalism, says TechFreedom’s Andy Jung. And any preemption effort must clear several hurdles, including a lengthy rulemaking process.
The FTC’s AI Preemption Authority is Limited
Andy Jung takes argues the Trump administration’s effort to use the FTC to preempt state AI consumer protection laws will run into significant constraints.
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 AM
The Trump administration is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to override state AI consumer protection laws, but the agency’s power is constrained by federalism, says TechFreedom’s Andy Jung. And any preemption effort must clear several hurdles, including a lengthy rulemaking process.
Don't let up on this story. ICE thugs are still there, terrorizing the community. The institution needs to be abolished, and everyone working there needs to be made permanently unemployable.
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
February 7, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Don't let up on this story. ICE thugs are still there, terrorizing the community. The institution needs to be abolished, and everyone working there needs to be made permanently unemployable.
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Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
I think this intuition is flipped in the Supreme Court/FedSoc understanding of the world. Right are important—if ever—only to the extent they don’t get in the way of the executive doing what it wants.
That flip is fundamental to a lot that’s messed up right now.
That flip is fundamental to a lot that’s messed up right now.
The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
Flooding the zone with shit, but for the legal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I think this intuition is flipped in the Supreme Court/FedSoc understanding of the world. Right are important—if ever—only to the extent they don’t get in the way of the executive doing what it wants.
That flip is fundamental to a lot that’s messed up right now.
That flip is fundamental to a lot that’s messed up right now.
To be fair, he’s probably got the right invitation legally speaking. Both are just murder.
He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face
I swear this clip is not edited. Trump pivots from downplaying the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ("two people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity") to in the very next breath claiming "we've been very tough on the waters," leaving Tom Llamas baffled ("the waters?")
February 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
To be fair, he’s probably got the right invitation legally speaking. Both are just murder.
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STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates:
Walz is PERSONABLE
Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED
AOC is CHARISMATIC
Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL
Newsom
Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
Walz is PERSONABLE
Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED
AOC is CHARISMATIC
Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL
Newsom
Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
February 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates:
Walz is PERSONABLE
Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED
AOC is CHARISMATIC
Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL
Newsom
Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
Walz is PERSONABLE
Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED
AOC is CHARISMATIC
Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL
Newsom
Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
Billionaires shouldn’t exist, exhibit #45286
“The values of The Post do not need changing. The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners. We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads,” -Jeffrey Preston Bezos, August 5, 2013 www.washingtonpost.com/national/jef...
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase
Letter to the employees of The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Billionaires shouldn’t exist, exhibit #45286
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the defund police movement was pilloried as unpopular and an electoral loser. but it wasn't about winning elections; it was about building antifascist power.
now even centrist dems are (veeeery tentatively) using those ideas as we face a fascist crisis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...
now even centrist dems are (veeeery tentatively) using those ideas as we face a fascist crisis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...
Now Is Defund's Moment
The movement was always about fighting fascism, not winning elections
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
the defund police movement was pilloried as unpopular and an electoral loser. but it wasn't about winning elections; it was about building antifascist power.
now even centrist dems are (veeeery tentatively) using those ideas as we face a fascist crisis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...
now even centrist dems are (veeeery tentatively) using those ideas as we face a fascist crisis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...
If the product were that good you wouldn’t have to force people to use it. This is insane.
Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com.
HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter"
That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter"
That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
February 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
If the product were that good you wouldn’t have to force people to use it. This is insane.
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If you missed it last night, please please please read Gwen’s great thread about why snitching is bad, even when you disagree with a tactic someone is using
What I think keeps getting lost I'm The Discourse is that there is a difference between disagreeing with a tactic (strategically or even on moral principle) and *endangering* the folks engaged in that tactic.
February 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
If you missed it last night, please please please read Gwen’s great thread about why snitching is bad, even when you disagree with a tactic someone is using
A national conversation that Schumer is only half listening to, in between daydreaming about governing like the old days
Saturday's teargassing is now part of the national conversation.
Federal agents tear-gassed demonstrators and children in Portland.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 AM
A national conversation that Schumer is only half listening to, in between daydreaming about governing like the old days
Don’t Stop Believing
And someone puts it on every damn time I’m at karaoke.
And someone puts it on every damn time I’m at karaoke.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Don’t Stop Believing
And someone puts it on every damn time I’m at karaoke.
And someone puts it on every damn time I’m at karaoke.
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The amount of glazing these tech bro fascists got from the press is just staggering.
Their big bold ideas turned out to be eugenics and social Darwinism with a more than a dash of Ayn Rand bullshit.
Their big bold ideas turned out to be eugenics and social Darwinism with a more than a dash of Ayn Rand bullshit.
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 3:29 AM
The amount of glazing these tech bro fascists got from the press is just staggering.
Their big bold ideas turned out to be eugenics and social Darwinism with a more than a dash of Ayn Rand bullshit.
Their big bold ideas turned out to be eugenics and social Darwinism with a more than a dash of Ayn Rand bullshit.