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fredrmb.bsky.social @fredrmb.bsky.social · Dec 12
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.

And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.

In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
January 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
This is why they don’t want to do due process.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 26
NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!
April 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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sarahlazare.bsky.social
Mahmoud Khalil addressing the judge today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Read @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the bizarre shortcomings of the majority's unsigned opinion in the Venezuelan migrant decision. An actual opinion is better than no opinion, I guess, but is it too much to ask that the opinion make sense? www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-140-...
Contrast that with the majority opinion in J.G.G. There is literally no discussion in the opinion of what the government has to show to obtain the relief it sought (vacatur of Chief Judge Boasberg’s TROs). There’s no discussion of how Boasberg’s rulings cause “irreparable harm” to the government. There’s no suggestion that balancing the equities even matters—let alone an attempt to actually balance them (which might well have augured in favor of a different result). It’s just two pages about the merits of whether the plaintiffs’ claims could proceed under the Administrative Procedure Act or whether they had to be brought via habeas—and one paragraph admonishing the dissenters for the tone of their dissents. Nor does Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence fill that gap. One would simply have no idea, reading the opinion, what the government had to show or why it was able to do so.
April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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lilysaxelrod.bsky.social
By law you must declare all ideas to CBP at the border or port of entry, so that they can review and ensure that you only bring in approved ones. All unauthorized ideas will be consigned to the Mar-a-Lago Archive.
April 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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davidrlurie.com
Today, John Roberts confirmed that, when he and his colleagues have to choose between backing up lower court judges who are standing up for the rule of law and serving the interests of Donald Trump, they will serve Trump.
davidrlurie.com davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · Mar 31
John Roberts paved the way for Trump's return to the White House, making him a "king above the law."
The Court's majority also seems poised to endorse many of Trump's authoritarian assaults on our democracy.
But the Court could pay a high price for serving as Trump's enabler, as I discuss in PN.
John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him.
The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation.
open.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 8
Bondi on Boasberg: "Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador. He cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over ... going forward, these terrorists better look out."
April 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
I know what you mean but this isn’t in fact an impossible position, and it shouldn’t be a difficult choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
April 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits.

Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 7
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.

He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Bring them back!
April 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Apr 7
Judge Thacker (Obama), joined by Judge King (Clinton), wrote that first concurrence. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), then, wrote his own concurrence.

Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, concurring in the denial of a motion for a stay pending appeal: I would deny the request for a stay of the district court's order pending appeal. We deal here with what I hope is the extraordinary circumstance of the government conceding that it made an error in deporting the plaintiff to a foreign country for which he was not eligible for removal. In this situation, I think it legitimate for the district court to require that the government "facilitate" the plaintiff's return to the United States so that he may assert the rights that all apparently agree are due him under law. It is fair to read the district court's order as one requiring that the government facilitate Abrego Garcia's release, rather than demand it. The former seems within the trial court's lawful powers in this circumstance; the latter would be an intrusion on core executive powers that goes too far. And the government rightfully concedes that it was an "error" and a "mistake" to ignore this process. Mot. for Stay at 16-17. And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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natcad.bsky.social
Disappearance is the correct term. The government is expanding its use of enforced disappearance as a border management strategy in alarming ways. My article from December in the Journal on Migration & Human Security here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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jaywillis.net
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal- vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a 2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal- vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip- lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ- ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur- ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor- ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to- night—is unprecedented and indefensible.
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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segalmr.bsky.social
Judges Thacker & King:

"The [Government] has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present... off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that... courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."
klasfeldreports.com Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · Apr 7
News:

The Fourth Circuit REFUSED to pause an order forcing the Trump admin to return Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. before midnight tonight.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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ckoettl.bsky.social
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime.
- Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime.
- Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime.
- Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 28
State Department spox Tammy Bruce just blatantly lies and says that students are getting visas revoked for "illegal activity" (Rumeysa Ozturk was not charged with a crime)
March 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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obarcala.bsky.social
This is like a speech you'd hear in Germany circa 1938, but a few grades dumber
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Mar 28
Trump: “We need Greenland…We have to have Greenland. It’s not a question of ‘do you think we can do without it?’ We can’t.”
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
the united states is on a campaign to terrorize academia and journalism in the US into a state of cowardice.

joke's on trump; academia and journalism were already 2 steps ahead.
March 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…
www.techdirt.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.

What would you call that?
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.

1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.

A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM