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Martin Flaherty
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Human Rights Lawyer, Foreign Relations, Constitutional Law & History Scholar. Princeton SPIA, Columbia Law, Barnard College & Leitner Center for International Law & Justice. Author, Restoring the Global Judiciary http://press.princeton.edu/titles/13411.h… .. more

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Martin S. Flaherty is a legal scholar and international human rights activist. Flaherty is a law professor in New York City and a longtime professor of international affairs at Princeton University. He has also pursued human rights advocacy with a range of organizations, including Human Rights First, the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice, the New York City Bar Association, and the UN, on human rights missions to Northern Ireland, Turkey, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Kenya, Romania, and the United States, among others. His work focuses on the independence of lawyers and judges. .. more

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Pianozzino @pianozzino.bsky.social · 9h
DHS reporting he approached officers with a 9mm handgun. Does it look like he has a gun in his hand? It’s a phone. He’s filming the interaction.

DHS is lying.

#Minneapolis #ICE #Shooting

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h
This is ok tho

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
Live Updates: Federal Agents Shoot and Kill a Person in Minneapolis, Officials Say
The shooting prompted a clash between ICE agents and more than 100 protesters who swarmed the scene.
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Joel Jacobson❌👑🇨🇦 @jakesterwisc.bsky.social · 12h
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Another murder in Minneapolis!! When the fuck are lawmakers going to stop this insanity!!
From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts
Explore this post and more from the Minneapolis community
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 12h
Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Federal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor says
Minneapolis officials said they are investigating.
www.nbcnews.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20h
You misspelled "BORED".

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d
“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️

RIP Barbara Aronstein Black

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Barbara Aronstein Black, a First as a Law School Dean, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 1d
#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

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Martin Flaherty @mflaherty17.bsky.social · 2d
Saddened to hear of the passing of Barbara Black. Barbara was my 1L Contracts professor, become Columbia Law's first woman Dean. We shared the same graduate history advisor, the great Edmund Morgan, and regularly got together over the succeeding decades. A wonderful teacher, scholar, and friend.

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Martin Flaherty @mflaherty17.bsky.social · 2d
Lessons from the Post-Constitutional Order: the higher up the Federal judiciary, the more craven the deference to the Executive: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Court Removes Restrictions on ICE’s Use of Pepper Spray, for Now
www.nytimes.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d
If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com

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Martin Flaherty @mflaherty17.bsky.social · 5d
mportant op-ed by two distinguished former Federal Judges announcing principles for the preservation of the US legal profession's independence (h/t Deborah Pearlstein): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | How the American Legal Profession Can Regain Its Dignity
www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 5d
This is insane, 25th Amendment NOW!! From the article:

Donald Trump stoked tensions with Nato allies over Greenland in a stark message to Norway’s prime minister, warning that he “no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace” after he was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s bizarre letter to Norway’s prime minister in full
Donald Trump claimed to deserve the peace prize for mediating ceasefire agreements
www.the-independent.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.

ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

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Taracas @taracas.bsky.social · 6d
“ when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their behavior often drifts toward domination, exploitation, cruelty, violence, and the outright most vile and abhor.”
Elite Sadists, Their Nihilist Systems, and Their Perpetual Class-Based Immunity
There are increasingly louder rumblings about what is buried in the Epstein files—what more names are in there, what behavior and crimes are documented, what networks might be exposed, and what level ...
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 8d
✅ More than 80 Members Signed On
✅ More than 20,500 letters sent to Congress

Join the growing number of Americans telling their representatives to impeach Kristi Noem:
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 11d
well yes - no one wants to encounter ICE in the US now and end up in El Salvador...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 12d
"Here are the demands we all need to make: Use the National Guard to protect our citizens. Arrest agents who commit crimes. Charge police, National Guard, and ICE with crimes when they commit or refuse to stop them. . . . Do it now."
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/my-first-7...
My First 72 Hours in Minneapolis and How I Got an ICE Agent to Scream “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
The activists on the ground are doing the work, that should give you hope.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 14d
Jesse Ventura may be radical in some of his views but he is a true patriot. I'll stand behind Ventura any day.
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Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now'
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14d
Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16d
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17d
Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.

We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17d
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911 "They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.