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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

prospect.org

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Another snippet from Trump's campaign rally style speech to the Navy in Norfolk. The content was totally inappropriate, but more remarkable is the evidence is furnishes of advanced senile dementia. Grandpa can't even remember his own book. He's fading fast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said, one year before -- where's Pete? In the book I wrote -- whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you -- but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it."

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Matthew Brooker @mbrooker.bsky.social · 2d

Again this is so reminiscent of post-2019 Hong Kong. All resistance is terrorism. What to make of that I don’t know

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 2d

Can you post a relevant link?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Miller having any involvement with deadly strikes on Caribbean boats adds to the suspicion that US forces might have killed migrants, not drug traffickers.

Blowing up rather than interdicting and arresting traffickers would still be both illegal and bad strategy. But if migrants even worse.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 9d

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Top Trump Adviser Pushed for Drone Strikes on Migrants, New Book Claims

Stephen Miller denies the account, and a person present remembers it differently, but the book accuses the top Trump adviser of advocating an atrocity

www.rollingstone.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10d

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 10d

Sigh

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10d

Whoa! SNAP! How is Trump gonna recover from this?!?! The gloves are OFF.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10d

Whoa! SNAP! How is Trump gonna recover from this?!?! The gloves are OFF.

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 13d

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.

"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Telling the truth about red states will get you roundly condemned but spreading lies about blue cities is just standard operating procedure for Republicans.

It’s especially weird because most red states are living off tax money from blue cities.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10d

if literally everything else is the same except that the upper peninsula of michigan was part of wisconsin and the florida panhandle was part of alabama, clinton wins decisively and Trump becomes a forgotten joke. It makes you think! bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 10d

I have to remind people multiple times a year that Clinton got three million more votes than Trump and the Electoral College is the reason she wasn't president.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 12d

Here's another lovely remembrance of Jerry Cohen from Yu-jie Chen: thechinacollection.org/memory-jerom...

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 13d

Professorships at GW Law!

2 openings in clinical: IP Clinic and Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic (www.gwu.jobs/postings/121...)

1 opening for professor of government contracts (www.gwu.jobs/postings/121...)

Associate Professor or Professor of Clinical Law

The George Washington University Law School invites applications for tenure-track or tenured clinical faculty appointment, beginning as early as Summer 2026. The school is especially, but not exclusiv...

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 14d

Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-c...

Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025

On Monday night I received the very sad news that Jerome Cohen had passed away that day at 95.

donaldclarke.substack.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16d

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad
2) That’s equivalent to state repression
3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough)
4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real

That really is the logic

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17d

lol

Replying to @DouthatNYT
It would be extremely healthy for a figure like Obama to acknowledge what became obvious in 2019-2021 - that a distributed, public-private form of speech policing can actually feel as oppressive as any FCC warning. That would actually be a useful intervention right now.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16d

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 17d

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says

U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

www.miamiherald.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17d

Ross’s job is to somberly inform liberals, more in sorrow than in anger, that daddy will never stop hitting mommy until mommy admits she’s a dumb whore who deserves it.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17d

who was president in 2019, ross

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17d

lol

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16d

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean.

As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-arrest low risk
-no legal rationale
-violates international law
-no evidence of who US hit

If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17d

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

Mr. Trump, who was barred from Twitter and Facebook after encouraging a crowd of supporters that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block the transfer of power, has since cast himself as a champion of free speech. Upon returning to office, he signed an executive order "ending federal censorship."
Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations.
"We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."

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