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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 26

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

www.wired.com

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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · Jul 24

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4

Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center

Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

ACLU @aclu.org · Jul 24

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

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350.org @350.org · Jul 23

This historic decision could pave the way for climate reparations and human rights protections that are long overdue, as well as build a stronger case for big polluters to pay up for the damage they have caused!

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

‘Historic’ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect

The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.

www.aljazeera.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

New, from me: until recently the big question was “what happens when Trump defies the courts?”
The answer, as it turns out, is that SCOTUS will support him.
The new question is what are the consequences for American democracy and governance?🧵

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-youre...

When you’re a star, the Supreme Court lets you do it

SCOTUS is enabling Trump's assault on American institutions

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

Court’s decision expected to be used in future litigation and to support political negotiations by vulnerable states

www.theguardian.com

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · Jul 13

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers

This study “offers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (h/t @greggdcaruso.bsky.social) #philosophy #PhilSky

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Jul 16

All the conventional wisdom about a constitutional crisis only coming when Trump flat out defies SCOTUS rulings ignores the obvious fact that this Court is a constitutional crisis in itself. We’ve been in full blown CC since it sided in Trump v USA against the USA:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why

www.nytimes.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · Jul 17

Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed.

For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

www.vanityfair.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 14

The Supreme Court said it was unlawful for the Biden administration to forgive student loans because it lacked congressional authority but has no problem with the Trump administration gutting the entire Department of Education without congressional approval. This is a lawless court.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 14

For more on why it is absolutely incumbent upon #SCOTUS to provide even a modicum of explanation when it intervenes to upset the status quo in cases like these, see this "One First" bonus post from June 26:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-161-...

Bonus 161: Why the Court Needs to Explain Itself

The continuing fallout from Monday afternoon’s ruling in the third-country removals case is an object lesson for why the justices should be providing explanations when they grant emergency relief.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 14

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Jul 12

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous

Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 13

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.

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www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...

CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business Times

Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camari...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 2

It’s worth it to listen to the @slate.com’s Amicus SCOTUS year-end Review, hosting by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @mjsdc.bsky.social.
Featuring @stevevladeck.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net & me. It’s sobering & chilling. But at least we’re together figuring it out!
slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Amy Coney Barrett Is Not The Centrist You Were Looking For.

A conservative supermajority so keen to gobble more power for itself, might be giving Trump the tools to override it.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jun 30

“By doing nothing to push back against attacks on lower courts], and by behaving in a way that gives the appearance of justices more interested in rationalizing their votes than in reconciling their jurisprudence, #SCOTUS is ultimately weakening the federal judiciary at the worst possible moment.”:

163. A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy

The Supreme Court closed the balance of the October 2024 Term with both actions and opinions that bespeak a new vision of how it exercises power—one that is as dangerous as it will be unpredictable.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · Jun 27

And ... it's out. Our episode on SCOTUS's latest complicity with Trump's lawlessness @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social : crooked.com/podcast/scot...

SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness | Crooked Media

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 1

My latest: Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s immigrant concentration camp, has its grand opening today after being built in one week. Trump, DeSantis and Noem will be there to celebrate their collaboration.

I wrote about this fulfillment of a Republican wet dream—complete with tacky merch:

Alligator Alcatraz immigrant prison camp is Florida's sadistic 'one-stop shop' for mass deportation

Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday with Gov. DeSantis and DHS Sec. Noem.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jun 30

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say

An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

www.nbcnews.com

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jun 27

“Foreign aid has changed nothing.” “These are not our problems.” “The system is dysfunctional.” “The countries we aid are corrupt.” “Other countries aren’t doing enough.”

I have heard all these arguments too. @nickkristof.bsky.social succinctly answers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Opinion | The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems

www.nytimes.com

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort

Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

www.politico.com

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Jun 30

DOJ plan to prioritize revoking citizenship includes

Cases a US Attorney refers "or in connection with pending criminal charges if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities"

"Any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important"

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

www.npr.org

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Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Jun 30

"A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy"

Excellent post from Vladeck connecting changes in emergency relief to how the Court understands and exercises its supremacy.

open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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