Susan West
@capria.bsky.social
San Juan Island, WA. Immigration attorney focused on Muslim clients from Pakistan and India, most seeking asylum, U-visas, AOS, other relief. Team D since 6th grade. Mother of daughter at Wellesley. U.S./UK dual citizen. Reed College. Michigan Law.
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They are realizing that bar discipline and disbarment are real possibilities for abusing the legal process, so they are subverting these enforcement mechanisms also
Attn: DC #lawsky:
FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.
FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.
March 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
They are realizing that bar discipline and disbarment are real possibilities for abusing the legal process, so they are subverting these enforcement mechanisms also
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BREAKING: A draft executive order set for release tomorrow calls for the closure of the Department of Education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Draft executive order set for Thursday calls for closing Education Dept.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said that congressional approval is needed to close the agency. Deep cuts to the workforce are expected in the short term.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
BREAKING: A draft executive order set for release tomorrow calls for the closure of the Department of Education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Just saying the quiet part out loud
March 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just saying the quiet part out loud
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This is so seriously messed up
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is so seriously messed up
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All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
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Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA”
www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...
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February 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA”
www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...
www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...
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Greg Abbott has spent the past 4 years saying that TX was being invaded by immigrants. Put up barbed wire and booby trapped bouys. Had LEOs stopping trucks. So tell me why, the so-called ICE raids didn’t start in TX, but are in Chicago and NY?
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Greg Abbott has spent the past 4 years saying that TX was being invaded by immigrants. Put up barbed wire and booby trapped bouys. Had LEOs stopping trucks. So tell me why, the so-called ICE raids didn’t start in TX, but are in Chicago and NY?
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This is a FUCK of a lot of water to waste. This is not being done to “make the water flow” it’s being done to ruin the economy of California’s agricultural sector (and therefore the economy of the country.)
This is a FUCK of a lot of water to waste. This is not being done to “make the water flow” it’s being done to ruin the economy of California’s agricultural sector (and therefore the economy of the country.)
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This is a FUCK of a lot of water to waste. This is not being done to “make the water flow” it’s being done to ruin the economy of California’s agricultural sector (and therefore the economy of the country.)
This is a FUCK of a lot of water to waste. This is not being done to “make the water flow” it’s being done to ruin the economy of California’s agricultural sector (and therefore the economy of the country.)
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No, we don't need investigations. We don't need Senators posting on social media. We need you to literally grind everything to a halt in the Senate & get in front of microphones on the Capitol steps calling for the fascists to resign & your GOP colleagues to vote with you to impeach & remove them.
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
No, we don't need investigations. We don't need Senators posting on social media. We need you to literally grind everything to a halt in the Senate & get in front of microphones on the Capitol steps calling for the fascists to resign & your GOP colleagues to vote with you to impeach & remove them.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building):
OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico
IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost
OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico
IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost
February 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building):
OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico
IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost
OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico
IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost
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again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government
January 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government
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The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.
January 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.
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We have a system for this. Do you have any idea how wildly expensive this is going to be? Of course the spectacle, cruelty and grifting/kickbacks from/by defense contractors is the point. For reference, the bullshit military flight deportations were over $800k a piece.
Pete Hegseth says Gitmo is a place where migrants can be "safety maintained" until they are deported to their "final location"
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
We have a system for this. Do you have any idea how wildly expensive this is going to be? Of course the spectacle, cruelty and grifting/kickbacks from/by defense contractors is the point. For reference, the bullshit military flight deportations were over $800k a piece.
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the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
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Feeling "insulted and confused" is the point. I highly recommend folks revisit some of the secret speeches and recorded conversations with Russ Vought from a few months ago.
January 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Feeling "insulted and confused" is the point. I highly recommend folks revisit some of the secret speeches and recorded conversations with Russ Vought from a few months ago.
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How Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI chief, turned a real Trump-Russia scandal into a phony hoax and became a useful idiot for Vladimir Putin. Will any of this come up at his confirmation hearing on Friday morning?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How Kash Patel became a useful idiot for Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump's pick to be FBI director was a chief architect of Trump's own Russia hoax.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
How Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI chief, turned a real Trump-Russia scandal into a phony hoax and became a useful idiot for Vladimir Putin. Will any of this come up at his confirmation hearing on Friday morning?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Federal employees are preparing to be harassed, persecuted, turned into loyalists or chased out of their jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.
Practical support matters more than encouragement.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Federal employees are preparing to be harassed, persecuted, turned into loyalists or chased out of their jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
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If you hate filing your taxes, you'll love this: the IRS is making it even easier to get your refund!
The IRS's program, Direct File, will let people file their taxes online, for free with the IRS, and now that process is even easier.
The IRS's program, Direct File, will let people file their taxes online, for free with the IRS, and now that process is even easier.
IRS’s Direct File to let users import W-2 forms, other data
The tax agency will start accepting 2024 tax returns on Jan. 27 and expand the Direct File system for free tax filing to more states.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you hate filing your taxes, you'll love this: the IRS is making it even easier to get your refund!
The IRS's program, Direct File, will let people file their taxes online, for free with the IRS, and now that process is even easier.
The IRS's program, Direct File, will let people file their taxes online, for free with the IRS, and now that process is even easier.
Can someone please send me a gift copy of this article in the Economist? I need it for an asylum application.
It’s 6/6/24 called Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways. Many thanks
It’s 6/6/24 called Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways. Many thanks
January 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can someone please send me a gift copy of this article in the Economist? I need it for an asylum application.
It’s 6/6/24 called Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways. Many thanks
It’s 6/6/24 called Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways. Many thanks