Michael Anderson
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Michael Anderson
@michaelander45.bsky.social
Attorney, Views are my own and not intended as legal advice 😁
Jesus
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
I actually wrote this in 2016 at a precursor site to @liberalcurrents.com and then updated it in 2018. While watching the slow motion political catastrophe, Jacob’s works made me reexamine what I thought I knew about liberalism www.liberalcurrents.com/jacob-levys-...
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
One of my favorite political publications, Liberal Currents, is doing a fundraiser to try to transition from a volunteer-run part-time group blog to a full-time organization with a higher rate of output. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Omfg
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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November 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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No the Democrats in this video aren't "implying" anything. Members of the armed forces ARE required to refuse illegal orders. This is simple. Not controversial at all. And it's super revealing that MAGA is so worried that troops won't carry out an illegal order from Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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sick of bitching about the atlantic? put your money where your poast is:
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Omfg
📣 Palabra:
Arresting young Latino-looking
American citizens will make them anti-Republican voters for life.
“I’m a citizen” the teen told officers, but ICE proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him.
Boy: “But I’m a citizen.”
Officer: “Get out of the car… I don’t care.”
ICE agents detained a McMinnville High School
YouTube video by The Oregonian
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
Then why didn't he just say that? Any normal person would have calmly said, "Of course no one should follow illegal orders and we do not issue them." Instead he got hysterical and basically said "how dare they say not to follow my illegal orders! I'll give any orders I want & they WILL follow them."
WELKER: Are you confident that every order President Trump gives is lawful?

BESSENT: What I am confident of is that this was a display of gross, gross negligence here

WELKER: But are you confident that every order President Trump is lawful?

BESSENT: I am confident of that
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Omfg
Yale Law galaxy brain
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
The particularly interesting RUMINT here is "Vance - Rubio relations awful" as there were several press articles in the Sept-Oct timeframe suggesting a Rubio - Vance - Miller foreign policy axis had sort of gelled, Rubio in WH more than at State HQ
FWIW, RUMINT, but pretty reliable:

1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.

2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”

3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.

4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Shes not gone until January
it's currently 219-213. w/MTG gone that's 218-213. three pending special elections in the next few months are going to go 2D-1R so that 219-215: Rs can lose two votes until they rerun the election in MTG's district
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Yes because he codes as trustworthy and unlikely to sell out his stated principles. This makes it much easier to accept this statement as a “savvy” political act.
Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
Five hours apart
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reposted by Michael Anderson
The thing about the Trump-Mandami love fest is that it takes the wind out of the GOP’s sails trying to paint him as the Democratic boogeyman.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is all also demonstrates why JD most surely does not have the juice. He could never do what Trump just did.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
You see what is unquestionably true is that politics is about carefully crafting policy proposals based on the polling expressed views of your voters..(touches ear piece)...WTF? what do you mean they were chummy..(takes a big swig from a flask previously hidden away)..ah well nevertheless..
this is the world's most confusing day for centrist Democrats who just voted to condemn socialism and tried to sink Mamdani's campaign for months
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
What do the Welcome PAC crew have to say about this Zohran and Trump meeting. It seems to blow up the very essence of their oeuvre?
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
LMFAO
Reporter to Trump: Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani mayoralty?

Trump: "I would. I really would. Especially after the meeting, absolutely."
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM