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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
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Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.
RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO
Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.
Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.
Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
March 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
This is a good comic and sadly does capture a real problem.
It is harmful for a kids development if parents explode about something innocuous on television all the time. It creates an atmosphere of fear and threat that encourages hypervigilance even if the anger isn’t directed at the kid. #CPTSD
It is harmful for a kids development if parents explode about something innocuous on television all the time. It creates an atmosphere of fear and threat that encourages hypervigilance even if the anger isn’t directed at the kid. #CPTSD
March 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is a good comic and sadly does capture a real problem.
It is harmful for a kids development if parents explode about something innocuous on television all the time. It creates an atmosphere of fear and threat that encourages hypervigilance even if the anger isn’t directed at the kid. #CPTSD
It is harmful for a kids development if parents explode about something innocuous on television all the time. It creates an atmosphere of fear and threat that encourages hypervigilance even if the anger isn’t directed at the kid. #CPTSD
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Trump signed another EO targeting the law firm Jenner and Block. Among the reasons cited, litigating cases defending trans people and immigrants.
They are the firm litigating the ACLU challenge to the executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
They are the firm litigating the ACLU challenge to the executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Trump signed another EO targeting the law firm Jenner and Block. Among the reasons cited, litigating cases defending trans people and immigrants.
They are the firm litigating the ACLU challenge to the executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
They are the firm litigating the ACLU challenge to the executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Or he’s lying! Which he does a lot.
Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Or he’s lying! Which he does a lot.
Sorry but march madness doesn’t start until Thursday. These play in games are an amuse bouche at best and should not be allowed to dilute the conceptual integrity of the madness I desire so strongly.
March 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sorry but march madness doesn’t start until Thursday. These play in games are an amuse bouche at best and should not be allowed to dilute the conceptual integrity of the madness I desire so strongly.
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Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
It irritates me to no end that Brian Scalabrine cosplays Tommy Heinsohn by referring to the Celtics as “us”.
He was on the Celtics for less than half his playing career but more importantly he doesn’t play for the Celtics now!
He was on the Celtics for less than half his playing career but more importantly he doesn’t play for the Celtics now!
March 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It irritates me to no end that Brian Scalabrine cosplays Tommy Heinsohn by referring to the Celtics as “us”.
He was on the Celtics for less than half his playing career but more importantly he doesn’t play for the Celtics now!
He was on the Celtics for less than half his playing career but more importantly he doesn’t play for the Celtics now!
Why did the university only respond with this when the initial letter became public (today) rather than when Dean Treanor received it (March 3, according to him)?
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Why did the university only respond with this when the initial letter became public (today) rather than when Dean Treanor received it (March 3, according to him)?
Eh. In my experience the real problem with the legal academy is that there is no worst thing you can be.
Most everything is justifiable and can be accomadated as long as it’s within the context of reifying the hierarchy and mutual importance of your bosses, peers and institutions.
Most everything is justifiable and can be accomadated as long as it’s within the context of reifying the hierarchy and mutual importance of your bosses, peers and institutions.
really seems that to much of the legal academy, the worst thing you can be is rude. twisting history and the law to deprive millions of people of citizenship? well, as long as you’re polite about it!
Mike Ramsey, for whom I have a great deal of respect and who wrote the leading originalist case for birthright citizenship, has a post criticizing not the substance but the tone of critics of Wurman and Barnett. Including me. originalismblog.typepad.com/the-original...
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Eh. In my experience the real problem with the legal academy is that there is no worst thing you can be.
Most everything is justifiable and can be accomadated as long as it’s within the context of reifying the hierarchy and mutual importance of your bosses, peers and institutions.
Most everything is justifiable and can be accomadated as long as it’s within the context of reifying the hierarchy and mutual importance of your bosses, peers and institutions.
Simply did not put enough points into DEX to be a viable makeup-wielder…
March 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Simply did not put enough points into DEX to be a viable makeup-wielder…
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However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
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at this moment in time, "Identity politics is bad" means, "it is good that Trump is resegregating the federal government and attempting to commit genocide against trans people."
these are things that are happening right now, under the banner of anti identity politics. 1
these are things that are happening right now, under the banner of anti identity politics. 1
After outperforming Kamala Harris and winning in Michigan, Elissa Slotkin in mid-November called on Democrats to speak like normal people — "not from the faculty lounge, but from the assembly line."
"I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo," she said at the time.
"I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo," she said at the time.
February 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
at this moment in time, "Identity politics is bad" means, "it is good that Trump is resegregating the federal government and attempting to commit genocide against trans people."
these are things that are happening right now, under the banner of anti identity politics. 1
these are things that are happening right now, under the banner of anti identity politics. 1
The grift here is obvious, but the administration is also trying to undermine the integrity of the idea that citizenship is something inalienable and fundamental for every American.
This cheapening/degradation of legal status is very much a part of the project of large scale disenfranchisement.
This cheapening/degradation of legal status is very much a part of the project of large scale disenfranchisement.
Trump is now proposing to sell a $5 million "gold card" that will provide a fast-track to citizenship for the ultra-wealthy.
He's doing this as he tries to place restrictions on certain forms legal immigration, including pausing admission to refugees displaced by violence.
He's doing this as he tries to place restrictions on certain forms legal immigration, including pausing admission to refugees displaced by violence.
February 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The grift here is obvious, but the administration is also trying to undermine the integrity of the idea that citizenship is something inalienable and fundamental for every American.
This cheapening/degradation of legal status is very much a part of the project of large scale disenfranchisement.
This cheapening/degradation of legal status is very much a part of the project of large scale disenfranchisement.
They think Russia is powerful because all the Russians they know are oligarchs and they measure a state’s success on how much power is afforded the wealthy to do what they please.
they think russia is big and powerful because it occupies a lot of space on a map
Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They think Russia is powerful because all the Russians they know are oligarchs and they measure a state’s success on how much power is afforded the wealthy to do what they please.
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NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration.
He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration.
He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
“Love is a song” is the kind of thing that seems like a saccharine platitude but I think is in fact a very beautiful sentiment capturing something of the impermanence and ineffability of music, relationships and the way we resonate with others as we move through our lives.
February 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Love is a song” is the kind of thing that seems like a saccharine platitude but I think is in fact a very beautiful sentiment capturing something of the impermanence and ineffability of music, relationships and the way we resonate with others as we move through our lives.
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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
Hell hath no fury like demand avoidant trans women being told they can’t exist.
February 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hell hath no fury like demand avoidant trans women being told they can’t exist.
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Great news, you’ve collected enough plastics in your body to start forming an exoskeleton. The universe will always bend toward crab.
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Great news, you’ve collected enough plastics in your body to start forming an exoskeleton. The universe will always bend toward crab.
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To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.
January 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.
So passive aggressive I need read receipts for when my read receipts are read
December 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM
So passive aggressive I need read receipts for when my read receipts are read
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george pickens can only be himself
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 AM
george pickens can only be himself