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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h

I had a call today with someone in OR who was talking about the need for more “agitation theater” in street protests to humiliate ICE and make people laugh.

Well done Portland chicken and Portland frog.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Spiegel on the criminal complaint against James: The US legal system has become a farce. When lackeys can file charges on the orders of their masters, no one can feel safe anymore. Then arbitrariness prevails. The end of the rule of law and freedom. And that affects everyone

US-Justizministerium klagt prominente Trump-Gegnerin Letitia James an

Die Vorwürfe lauten Bankbetrug und falsche Angaben: Das US-Justizministerium hat Anklage gegen Generalstaatsanwältin Letitia James erhoben. Die Widersacherin von Donald Trump reagierte mit einer Kampf...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

Good for them!

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 15h

Nice!

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 4d

I had the privilege of briefing dozens of Congressional staffers on Friday about Trump’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean. Thanks to the Progressive Caucus Action Fund for sponsoring the forum. You can watch my part of the event here:

My briefing to Congressional staffers about Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes

YouTube video by SKT DCA

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 15h

Trump rolled out fortress Europe along the southern border during his first term, complete with pushbacks and all.

In '21 we begin to see the expansion of Frontex and a switch to a "detain and deport" model.

Now Stephen Miller is doing the UK's failed "Rawanda Plan".

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

I think fascism is best understood as (in part) a transatlantic phenomenon with Europe borrowing ideas from the US and the US borrowing ideas from Europe throughout its history (including now.)

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 15h

mood open.spotify.com/track/7pdmBl...

Northern Sky

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 1d

damn you’re right the guy on this train is even worse. He’s literally unstoppable

Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 1d

I *really* hope there’s a quiet carriage on the next train. Have to escape D&D monologuers or whatever that was. Made me want to rip my ears off.

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 2d

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