Chase Madar
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
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Chase Madar
@madar.bsky.social
· Dec 28
I like how a dead tree is the star of this one, gesturing like an elated lottery winner in front of their new house
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Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.
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"That’s how it began. Soon would come a knock at the door by men with badges and, for Jon, the relentless feeling of being surveilled in a country where he never imagined he would be... "
Incredible, chilling story about speech in America under Trump and Big Tech. Read it: wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Incredible, chilling story about speech in America under Trump and Big Tech. Read it: wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
wapo.st
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
"That’s how it began. Soon would come a knock at the door by men with badges and, for Jon, the relentless feeling of being surveilled in a country where he never imagined he would be... "
Incredible, chilling story about speech in America under Trump and Big Tech. Read it: wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Incredible, chilling story about speech in America under Trump and Big Tech. Read it: wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Doug making bank at a Trump-kowtowing whiteshoe law firm should of course be disqualifying but I sense that about half of rank & file Dems (and a much higher % of the party apparatus) take umbrage at this judgment. They’re very protective of their poobahs; it’s very sweet
Her husband still hasn't resigned from that traitorous law firm so I don't want either of them anywhere near politics ever again.
February 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Doug making bank at a Trump-kowtowing whiteshoe law firm should of course be disqualifying but I sense that about half of rank & file Dems (and a much higher % of the party apparatus) take umbrage at this judgment. They’re very protective of their poobahs; it’s very sweet
I hope Kamala Harris doesn’t launch a third failed campaign for the presidency. She should think of the country
February 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I hope Kamala Harris doesn’t launch a third failed campaign for the presidency. She should think of the country
Anyone who was a Biden bitter-ender after that debate should be marginalized and ignored. Aggressively bad judgment should have consequences
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Anyone who was a Biden bitter-ender after that debate should be marginalized and ignored. Aggressively bad judgment should have consequences
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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One more and you get to keep him
I helped bring Mandelson down (twice). He was hiding in plain sight. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...
I helped bring Mandelson down before
Peter Mandelson is brilliant, but slippery. Connected, but compromised. Why was Starmer too naive to recognise that?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
One more and you get to keep him
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"The other iron law of reactionary centrism...is that only the left and liberals really have agency. The right just reacts – everything is always backlash, never a self-generated political project." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller
So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
"The other iron law of reactionary centrism...is that only the left and liberals really have agency. The right just reacts – everything is always backlash, never a self-generated political project." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sonny Stitt! open.spotify.com/track/2aGAND...
Four - Live
open.spotify.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Sonny Stitt! open.spotify.com/track/2aGAND...
Can't wait to see how a phalanx of NYTimes reporters explain this one away
One thing that seems to be missing from the chunks of the new Epstein files that I've read: actual financial advice. Unless these documents are unrepresentative in some way, I'm increasingly open to the idea that Epstein's primary business was blackmail.
Me, after seeing all the communications between the elites in the Epstein files. I'm either going to become a full-blown paranoid conspiracy theorist or The Joker.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Can't wait to see how a phalanx of NYTimes reporters explain this one away
Krasner will outlast both Shapiro and Fetterman, to the great credit of Philadelphia
Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis
www.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Krasner will outlast both Shapiro and Fetterman, to the great credit of Philadelphia
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A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social
Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
1 in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.
inthesetimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social
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Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it
February 2, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it
My cousin’s friend said it was actually $14 _trillion_
Rep. Tim Burchett: "When you pay your taxes this year, remember the $14 billion that illegal Somalis stole from you"
February 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
My cousin’s friend said it was actually $14 _trillion_
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Why is a Columbia University protester still in a detention center in Texas? Texas Democrats are accusing the president of holding Leqaa Kordia as a "political prisoner." thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...
Texas Democrats Demand Release of ‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia, Compare ICE Facility to ‘Internment Camps’
State Rep. Salman Bhojani said the 33-year-old is living in inhumane conditions and has been running “a high fever for several days.”
thebarbedwire.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Why is a Columbia University protester still in a detention center in Texas? Texas Democrats are accusing the president of holding Leqaa Kordia as a "political prisoner." thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...
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Compelling piece which argues that the events of 2020 to 2023 saw a shift away from US thinking that MENA's stability relied on a balance of power between the KSA and IRI towards an overt underwriting of Israeli regional domination, which in turn has compelled other states to unite against this.
Iran and the New Geopolitical Moment
A coalition of states is seeking to avert a U.S. attack, and Israel is in the forefront of their mind.
carnegieendowment.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Compelling piece which argues that the events of 2020 to 2023 saw a shift away from US thinking that MENA's stability relied on a balance of power between the KSA and IRI towards an overt underwriting of Israeli regional domination, which in turn has compelled other states to unite against this.
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A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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A study for a concertina structure on isometric graph paper.
February 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM
A study for a concertina structure on isometric graph paper.
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Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing.
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.
theintercept.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing.
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
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The greatest success of the "constitutional sheriff" movement has been to mainstream the idea that you "can't legislate" sheriffs. Just gotta wait until that election!
www.sheriffs.org/sites/defaul...
www.sheriffs.org/sites/defaul...
www.sheriffs.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
The greatest success of the "constitutional sheriff" movement has been to mainstream the idea that you "can't legislate" sheriffs. Just gotta wait until that election!
www.sheriffs.org/sites/defaul...
www.sheriffs.org/sites/defaul...
I see a lot of negative reactions to this post but it correctly highlights that the nationalism is louder and stronger than the racism in the ICE/CBP siege of Minneapolis, Maine, L.A. and in Trumpism more generally
February 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I see a lot of negative reactions to this post but it correctly highlights that the nationalism is louder and stronger than the racism in the ICE/CBP siege of Minneapolis, Maine, L.A. and in Trumpism more generally