Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken)
@hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social
Indefatigable defender of democracy & humans. Lawyer. Mom. ADHD. Gaelic-stubborn: they’ll give up before I do. I cope by gathering reliable info (Bsky sources ctgrzd into 16 dffrnt lists). Disagreement won’t offend me. Self-appntd Empress of the World. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙
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What the country REALLY needs is one BIG BEAUTIFUL ANTIFASCIST PLATFORM to unite us all against TRUMPISM!
Hey folks, It’s time we start putting some serious thought behind the kind of nation we want to live in once Trumpism has been defeated.
It’s also time that we give up on the naive expectation that our elected leaders are going to take care of this problem for us.
It’s also time that we give up on the naive expectation that our elected leaders are going to take care of this problem for us.
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BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
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Meanwhile TSA is being distracted from actual national security threats ?
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Meanwhile TSA is being distracted from actual national security threats ?
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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As I said to @jamellebouie.net the other day, we should be suspicious of claims in 2025, made in just a matter of weeks after the president declared something to be true by fiat, that "discovered" new meanings that are not consistent with hundreds of years of a consistently articulated tradition.
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As I said to @jamellebouie.net the other day, we should be suspicious of claims in 2025, made in just a matter of weeks after the president declared something to be true by fiat, that "discovered" new meanings that are not consistent with hundreds of years of a consistently articulated tradition.
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Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
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Pretty much a complete inversion of the rules applied in civil law societies, like most of Europe—where the identity of a person arrested or charged is to be scrupulously guarded, but he identity of police and their images are deemed public information.
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Pretty much a complete inversion of the rules applied in civil law societies, like most of Europe—where the identity of a person arrested or charged is to be scrupulously guarded, but he identity of police and their images are deemed public information.
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I know multiple women who genuinely, truly believe that their children are more likely to die from a HPV vaccination side effect than they are from the cancers that HPV causes. I have no idea how you even begin to undo that level of mass psychosis in society.
I will never forgive RFK Jr. for what he’s done… never.
The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming.
He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.
The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming.
He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I know multiple women who genuinely, truly believe that their children are more likely to die from a HPV vaccination side effect than they are from the cancers that HPV causes. I have no idea how you even begin to undo that level of mass psychosis in society.
That word, “conservative” I don’t think it means what you think it means…
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
That word, “conservative” I don’t think it means what you think it means…
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The Department of Homeland Security is terminating all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is terminating all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.
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People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?
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NYT - The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through US airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NYT - The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through US airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us...
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I'm not certain, but I think this might be the first photo of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from an Epstein release
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm not certain, but I think this might be the first photo of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from an Epstein release
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Flood X and Truth Social 😆
President Biden has been awarded Germany's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit 💙
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Flood X and Truth Social 😆
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One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
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Vought is singlehandedly handcuffing my entire industry, the Community Development Financial Institutions. 100 Republican senators and representatives had to write a letter just to get him to reinstate the staff of that program, all of whom he had RIFed during the shutdown.
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Vought is singlehandedly handcuffing my entire industry, the Community Development Financial Institutions. 100 Republican senators and representatives had to write a letter just to get him to reinstate the staff of that program, all of whom he had RIFed during the shutdown.
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I’m a Hoosier. I’m shocked, shocked to find that our state senators have balls!!
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m a Hoosier. I’m shocked, shocked to find that our state senators have balls!!
Hmmmm… Let’s wait and see what he posts on TS—‘bet it’s gonna’ be a doozy…
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hmmmm… Let’s wait and see what he posts on TS—‘bet it’s gonna’ be a doozy…
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Tiny fact check: Biden won Indiana in 2020.
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Tiny fact check: Biden won Indiana in 2020.
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So, threatening to withhold funding is not being involved?
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
So, threatening to withhold funding is not being involved?
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It’s all the more galling considering the legacy of the Mohawk ironworkers.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
High and mighty
How did a bunch of native Americans end up building New York's greatest skyscrapers? Joel Budd on the death-defying Mohawks
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
It’s all the more galling considering the legacy of the Mohawk ironworkers.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
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Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
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Kristi Noem has attacked Sister Norma Pimentel, a leader of Catholic Charities serving immigrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, after she spoke out bravely criticizing DHS deportation projects, echoing the words of Pope Leo. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268391/...
DHS cuts off aid to Texas Catholic Charities
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV) from receiving federal funding, according to CCRGV.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Kristi Noem has attacked Sister Norma Pimentel, a leader of Catholic Charities serving immigrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, after she spoke out bravely criticizing DHS deportation projects, echoing the words of Pope Leo. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268391/...
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"Regardless of the type of clemency at issue, the President’s power extends only to "offences against the United States," meaning federal crimes but not state or civil wrongs."
Because US Constitution Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 Scope of Pardon Power.
bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Because US Constitution Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 Scope of Pardon Power.
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NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"Regardless of the type of clemency at issue, the President’s power extends only to "offences against the United States," meaning federal crimes but not state or civil wrongs."
Because US Constitution Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 Scope of Pardon Power.
bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Because US Constitution Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 Scope of Pardon Power.
bsky.app/profile/kyle...