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No person is illegal, except Habba who is working at her illegal job illegally
Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’ offices.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
No person is illegal, except Habba who is working at her illegal job illegally
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"We’re still living in overlapping pandemics: COVID, Long COVID, HIV. These are not disconnected crises—all are shaped by interlocking systems of racism, poverty, criminalization, and medical neglect." Gabriel San Emeterio on World Aids Day.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"We’re still living in overlapping pandemics: COVID, Long COVID, HIV. These are not disconnected crises—all are shaped by interlocking systems of racism, poverty, criminalization, and medical neglect." Gabriel San Emeterio on World Aids Day.
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They’re terrorizing latinos with ethnic pogroms and torturing them in camps, they’re executing random people in the ocean, they’re threatening to overthrow the entire government of a latin American country, and they’re openly collaborating with the Russian regime.
Before meeting Putin, Witkoff and Kushner took in the sights of central Moscow, escorted by Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev. (shopping at TsUM looks like)
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They’re terrorizing latinos with ethnic pogroms and torturing them in camps, they’re executing random people in the ocean, they’re threatening to overthrow the entire government of a latin American country, and they’re openly collaborating with the Russian regime.
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The White House is threatening to kill survivors of its strikes on boats in the Caribbean, even though "the entire operation is illegal from the outset," says @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The White House is threatening to kill survivors of its strikes on boats in the Caribbean, even though "the entire operation is illegal from the outset," says @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
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Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement. From @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge
Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.
www.thecity.nyc
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement. From @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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The Justice Department has admitted that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who made the decision to deport a group of Venezuelan men to the notorious CECOT mega-prison complex in El Salvador, ignoring a judge’s order to keep them in custody in the United States.
DOJ Admits Noem Decided to Deport Venezuelan Men to CECOT Prison in El Salvador
The Justice Department has admitted that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who made the decision to deport a group of Venezuelan men to the notorious CECOT mega-prison complex in El Salvador, ignoring a judge's order to keep them in custody in the United States.
www.democracynow.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Justice Department has admitted that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who made the decision to deport a group of Venezuelan men to the notorious CECOT mega-prison complex in El Salvador, ignoring a judge’s order to keep them in custody in the United States.
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the mother of her nephew!!!
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
the mother of her nephew!!!
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Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee includes Elizabeth Alexander, the poet and Mellon Foundation President; Legacy Russell, Executive Director of The Kitchen; and Hiba Abid, the New York Public Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
Meet the Members of Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee
Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, curator Kimberly Drew, and The Kitchen Executive Director Legacy Russell are among the 28 members of the advisory team.
hyperallergic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee includes Elizabeth Alexander, the poet and Mellon Foundation President; Legacy Russell, Executive Director of The Kitchen; and Hiba Abid, the New York Public Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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Speaking as someone who lives in a place where the battles with City Council rage on all the time, City Council can really put a hamper on a progressive mayor's plans. Don't let them get away with it.
New: In vying to become the City Council’s next speaker, Julie Menin has in private conversations floated bringing back use of the chamber’s subpoena power, a tool that could be a check on incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s admin, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/25/n...
NYC Council speaker hopeful Julie Menin floats using subpoena power, a potential check on Mamdani
It’s not unusual for city agencies to refrain from providing all the information and documents requested by the Council — an issue that has become especially pitched under Mayor Adams, whose …
www.nydailynews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Speaking as someone who lives in a place where the battles with City Council rage on all the time, City Council can really put a hamper on a progressive mayor's plans. Don't let them get away with it.
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We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.
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"The GOP will flinch from more than doubling health insurance premiums—at least if middle-class people and up are the most affected—but only if they can also make the insurance worse, and make poor people pay more."
The Trump health care proposal that would extend ACA subsidies for 2 years has been put on hold by House Republicans who can't stand seeing people covered. But that plan had a lot of stuff in it that would worsen insurance and raise prices, @ryanlcooper.com and I write.
Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The GOP will flinch from more than doubling health insurance premiums—at least if middle-class people and up are the most affected—but only if they can also make the insurance worse, and make poor people pay more."
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Being chronically sick like this isn't some romanticized Hallmark movie plot. It's my life with debilitating chronic illnesses. DE-BIL-I-TAT-ING. Look the word up in a frigging dictionary.
STAT News: 'I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Being chronically sick like this isn't some romanticized Hallmark movie plot. It's my life with debilitating chronic illnesses. DE-BIL-I-TAT-ING. Look the word up in a frigging dictionary.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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"This year, a Bloomberg News analysis found that roughly “two-thirds of new data centers built or in development since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"This year, a Bloomberg News analysis found that roughly “two-thirds of new data centers built or in development since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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“We can’t build our way out of the problems that we’re seeing. If we educate individuals while we have them incarcerated, instead of building prisons, we can start closing prisons,” says an Arkansas organizer.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“We can’t build our way out of the problems that we’re seeing. If we educate individuals while we have them incarcerated, instead of building prisons, we can start closing prisons,” says an Arkansas organizer.
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The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, said Monday it would shutter operations. https://to.pbs.org/44hJPoI
U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shutters operations
Its operations were shrouded in secrecy during, and it never revealed its sources of funding and little about the armed contractors who operated the sites.
www.pbs.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, said Monday it would shutter operations. https://to.pbs.org/44hJPoI
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If you’ve ever taken a zine from any of our tabling events then you NEED to give a shit about Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, aka Des Revol.
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you’ve ever taken a zine from any of our tabling events then you NEED to give a shit about Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, aka Des Revol.
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground