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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"These practices must end now."
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.
February 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"These practices must end now."
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.
Horrible own-goal from @hrw.org and a sign of the human rights industry's increasing irrelevance. The report is no doubt a work of high quality and deserves to be released without HRW's diminished imprimatur www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Horrible own-goal from @hrw.org and a sign of the human rights industry's increasing irrelevance. The report is no doubt a work of high quality and deserves to be released without HRW's diminished imprimatur www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Good to see moderate electeds baring their incisors
Garcia, up again, ends by holding up a photo of Stephen Miller and says:
"There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."
"There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."
February 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Good to see moderate electeds baring their incisors
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I was honored to do this Q&A with @newyorker.com's @ichotiner.bsky.social
"Stephen Miller suggested, in May, that the Administration was 'looking at' suspending habeas corpus. Now, lo and behold, what Judge Schiltz is describing is a form of effectively suspending habeas corpus."
"Stephen Miller suggested, in May, that the Administration was 'looking at' suspending habeas corpus. Now, lo and behold, what Judge Schiltz is describing is a form of effectively suspending habeas corpus."
Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?
A conversation with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administration’s defiance of court orders since the start of the President’s second term.
www.newyorker.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I was honored to do this Q&A with @newyorker.com's @ichotiner.bsky.social
"Stephen Miller suggested, in May, that the Administration was 'looking at' suspending habeas corpus. Now, lo and behold, what Judge Schiltz is describing is a form of effectively suspending habeas corpus."
"Stephen Miller suggested, in May, that the Administration was 'looking at' suspending habeas corpus. Now, lo and behold, what Judge Schiltz is describing is a form of effectively suspending habeas corpus."
Solidarity to the thousands of morally grounded and intelligent Alabamans who must endure being represented by this dingdong cartoon character ✊🏻
Sen. Tuberville: "We gotta get rid of these voting machines. There's a half dozen people here in the House and Senate that did not get elected. It was all bogus. We've seen the evidence."
February 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Solidarity to the thousands of morally grounded and intelligent Alabamans who must endure being represented by this dingdong cartoon character ✊🏻
I wanna hang out a Minnesota flag at my NY abode. You people are crushing it and your new flag looks great
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I wanna hang out a Minnesota flag at my NY abode. You people are crushing it and your new flag looks great
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The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
February 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
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American citizen shot by ICE: The agent who shot me sent disgusting text messages to his Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging about how many times he shot me. I got sick to my stomach seeing how a federal law enforcement officer will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who he swerved into.
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
American citizen shot by ICE: The agent who shot me sent disgusting text messages to his Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging about how many times he shot me. I got sick to my stomach seeing how a federal law enforcement officer will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who he swerved into.
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Woody Landscape After the Rain - 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12769
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12769
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Woody Landscape After the Rain - 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12769
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12769
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Interesting follow up from Phil Gordon, former senior aide to President Biden on MENA and the National Security Advisor to Kamala Harris, where he says that *technically* Biden didn't violate the law because Biden's lawyers did not determine that he broke the law.
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Interesting follow up from Phil Gordon, former senior aide to President Biden on MENA and the National Security Advisor to Kamala Harris, where he says that *technically* Biden didn't violate the law because Biden's lawyers did not determine that he broke the law.
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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