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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 7h

“Inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries” is pretty darn on the money.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 13h

But the law says that you first consider the country that the foreign national requests and then any other country that will take them.
So this is also out of order.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15h

... criminal sentence.
R: you have no idea whether that condition was imposed by US or Costa Rica. fair?
S: fair
R: you have no idea if costa rica would take him right now
Guynn: we will stip that costa rica is on the table if eswatini falls thru.
R: you have no idea if US reached out

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, that seems out of order, literally.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 15h

WHUT.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17h

G: has US ID'd Ghana as country he'll be sent to
S: not at this time. a notice was prematurely sent to him.
G: why?
S: field office just trying to get ahead of things so if ghana did say yes removal would be quicker.
G: if court dissolved injunction , how long would it take to remove him

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21h

Just wow.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21h

Also worth mentioning that Bad Bunny is American.

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Infinity more people will watch Bad Bunny, its not remotely close, these people are a very loud minority

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

Just unbelievably scary and out of control

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

These people he is killing are not even immigrants FFS

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

(That last stat is also for Democrats who seem to think that “saving asylum” means limiting it to some tiny class of pure political dissidents that has never existed)

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

“More than two-thirds of voters believe the U.S. should consider granting asylum to women fleeing gender-based violence – a practice the DOJ recently instructed immigration judges to reverse. This includes 80 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Independents, and 59 percent of Republicans.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration claims it has a mandate for ending refugee resettlement and gutting access to asylum. It absolutely doesn’t and we have the polling data to prove it.

www.refugeeadvocacylab.org/resources/st...

Strong Majority of U.S. Voters Support Refugee Resettlement as Administration Plans to Slash Program by Nearly 95 Percent — The Refugee Advocacy Lab

Polling also shows significant public opposition to other federal policies that undermine protection in the United States and put the lives of people seeking safety in jeopardy  WASHINGTON—New ...

www.refugeeadvocacylab.org

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 2d

Big drop in the number of "southbound migrants" (mainly Venezuelan people who'd given up on coming to the United States after Trump unlawfully banned asylum) who Colombia's government has detected coming from Panama.

www.migracioncolombia.gov.co/publicacione...

FLUJO NORTE–SUR
DETECCIONES POR MES 2025

286
1.599
2.914 2.793 2.654
2.101 2.075
1.775
655

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

If people aren’t following what’s going on here, they need to be.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed! I think you are absolutely right!
It was also around the time that they began peddling the idea that if we just kick out immigrants, high rents and lack of affordable housing shortage will be solved LOL

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Yep I remember well and I spoke with housing and tenant organizers from East Colfax Community Collective then— so wondering if there are some housing organizers that can help get to bottom of this

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kavanaugh stop

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I hope someone is looking into the connection between the landlords, building management, and the Feds.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Me two about that degrees of separation which is crazy

Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh. It’s like they are just one step behind us with a slightly different accent but…

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 3d

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 3d

For less than what Florida and Indiana are charging US taxpayers to detain migrants in miserable conditions, you can book rooms tonight in decent hotels in central Washington DC.

From @nickmiroff.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Those rates are significantly lower than the amounts DHS appears to be paying through its most recent contracts at state-run facilities. The commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections told state lawmakers last month that DHS will pay $291 a day at the “Speedway Slammer,” while guaranteeing that the facility has a minimum of 450 detainees. The average cost of a bed inside the tents at “Alligator Alcatraz” is $245 a day, records show.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 5d

this is a great move for everyone involved

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 5d

My colleagues and I are SUPER excited about this: The amazing @crampell.bsky.social is joining our team at The Bulwark.

www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 4d

The literal words of the statute say that people here for more than two years can’t be subject to ER, asylum claim or no asylum claim

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