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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 8h

#kavanaughStops

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 9h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 13h

New co-authored article is out. How, pre-2023, Israel used advantageous comparison to avoid moral culpability for its actions. Evidence drawn from twitter. We also show - using CIRI data - Israel's human rights record in comparison to alleged peers & to regional states is weaker than often claimed

Advantageous comparison: Israel’s response to allegations of human rights violations

Human rights NGOs, UN bodies, and governments often criticize Israel for its military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and its treatment of the Palestinian people. This article examines I...

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 13h

Rasgon/NYT: "Hamas took a significant risk by agreeing to release the remaining hostages in Gaza, giving up much of the leverage it has with Israel with no certainty that it would achieve all of what it wanted in return."
1 didn't stop mass killing
2 Hamas won't get "all of what it wanted" w/or w/o

Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 13h

Callers from both parties hammered Johnson on C-Span.
The people are angry.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 15h

smart analysis

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 15h

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 15h

Also, smart use of the student newspaper to offer arguments about how US administration is attacking and undermining higher ed.

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 16h

In which Harvard’s Enos & Levitsky call on Harvard to lead the way, coordinating with other universities in fight for academic freedom. Our civil institutions will need to learn that power is harnessed through coordination. Protecting oneself will never be enough.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 1d

a Kavanaugh Stop

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 1d

“The people who they are deporting are the people who are positive influences to America,” said one interviewee in a @nytimes.com story sharing survey results.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

As the nominee to be Army GC pushed the specious notion that strikes in the Caribbean are akin to those in the "war on terror," I'm reposting my essay from @justsecurity.org.

No armed attack like 9/11.

No congressional AUMF.

No armed conflict.

Not the same.

www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”

An absence of credible legal basis for the Caribbean strike suggests the Trump admin is asserting a prerogative to kill outside the law.

www.justsecurity.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

My post on that.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government-ICE but No Healthcare-Visible - emptywheel

No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happen...

www.emptywheel.net

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22d

Mike Johnson. John Thune. Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski. Total free passes. The GOP, as a political party, & the leaders in charge of Congress, amidst unprecedented corruption & fascist lawbreaking, don't even exist to the people on the NYT op-ed page. They literally are not actors in 🇺🇸 politics.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 8

Again let's repeat: "it would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country"

Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30

Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Sep 8

Some numbers:

-Most Americans are women.

-Via the Census, about 60 million Americans are in a household that includes a daughter.

-Every American, or human being, should be appalled and disgusted by this.

It would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22d

As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 10d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 11d

That sounds like some system I've heard about before.

Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 11d

“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.”

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 11d

A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 11d

“Despite the university requiring students to undergo the training, the Trump administration still cut $790m in research funding.”

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11d

ummm

Students objecting to the video say it equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, and uses a controversial definition of
antisemitism.
The video also states that Israel was founded "on British land" and refers to the occupied West Bank as "Judea and Samaria", the biblical name controversially used for the
region by the Israeli government.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12d

This is a declaration of war against United States citizens

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12d

What a hellhole! What can we do to help? Do we need to organize an evacuation?

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12d

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 12d

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics.

They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12d

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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