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@lee1800.bsky.social
Avid political and legal junkie, Go UNC Tarheels!! Poly-Sci/History, Democrat since JFK. Seattle/Vancouver Is. Sailor, love music and reading. Master Gardener.
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In multiple cases where ICE/CBP has shot people, they have claimed they were under attack. But their cases fall apart in court. It increasingly seems they use force, knowing they can claim they were attacked afterwards, and face no accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In multiple cases where ICE/CBP has shot people, they have claimed they were under attack. But their cases fall apart in court. It increasingly seems they use force, knowing they can claim they were attacked afterwards, and face no accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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apnews.com/article/trum... @apnews.com 8/28/2025
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
President Donald Trump's administration has awarded a $1.2 billion contract to a tiny Virginia company to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex...
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
apnews.com/article/trum... @apnews.com 8/28/2025
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The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
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All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
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Gonna be an absolute delight ripping this shit down. Needs to be a real spectacle. A PBS special
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Gonna be an absolute delight ripping this shit down. Needs to be a real spectacle. A PBS special
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Please read this and pass it on.
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
The Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public: Do you “advance … opposition to law and immigration enforcement”? Do you have “extreme views in favor of ...
www.rawstory.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Please read this and pass it on.
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7/7
I started tracking Dem influencers about two weeks ago using a similar lens. The contrast is stark. Far less repetition. Far less narrative lockstep. With the partial exception of Epstein, there is no comparable daily enforcement. That difference matters. Attention rewards discipline.
I started tracking Dem influencers about two weeks ago using a similar lens. The contrast is stark. Far less repetition. Far less narrative lockstep. With the partial exception of Epstein, there is no comparable daily enforcement. That difference matters. Attention rewards discipline.
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I started tracking Dem influencers about two weeks ago using a similar lens. The contrast is stark. Far less repetition. Far less narrative lockstep. With the partial exception of Epstein, there is no comparable daily enforcement. That difference matters. Attention rewards discipline.
I started tracking Dem influencers about two weeks ago using a similar lens. The contrast is stark. Far less repetition. Far less narrative lockstep. With the partial exception of Epstein, there is no comparable daily enforcement. That difference matters. Attention rewards discipline.
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The oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week was part of the Venezuelan government’s effort to finance Cuba, according to documents and people inside the Venezuelan oil industry.
December 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week was part of the Venezuelan government’s effort to finance Cuba, according to documents and people inside the Venezuelan oil industry.
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But didn’t Trump assure us that there would be more jobs than we would know what to do with if he won?
So now he’s losing jobs by the thousands every month? 🙄🤥
So now he’s losing jobs by the thousands every month? 🙄🤥
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
But didn’t Trump assure us that there would be more jobs than we would know what to do with if he won?
So now he’s losing jobs by the thousands every month? 🙄🤥
So now he’s losing jobs by the thousands every month? 🙄🤥
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Republicans keep trying to kill Obamacare while their own districts are clinging to it like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic.
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Republicans keep trying to kill Obamacare while their own districts are clinging to it like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic.
How interesting….😳
Cuba denounces US seizure of oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast as ‘piracy’
www.theguardian.com
Cuba denounces US seizure of oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast as ‘piracy’
twp.ai
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
How interesting….😳
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The latest example of the power of anti-corruption, pro-reform politics.
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The latest example of the power of anti-corruption, pro-reform politics.
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DOJ targets 4 states, Georgia's Fulton County over voter data, 2020 election
thehill.com
DOJ targets 4 states, Georgia’s Fulton County over voter data, 2020 election
twp.ai
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
DOJ targets 4 states, Georgia's Fulton County over voter data, 2020 election
Excellent plan - to be shared because - Here We Are….
Over the next few weeks I will be posting about bits and pieces in my dissertation as I try to coax a few of you to read parts of it, and perhaps respond.
As I said yesterday, my expectations are modest. I pressthink.org/2025/10/jay-... 2/
As I said yesterday, my expectations are modest. I pressthink.org/2025/10/jay-... 2/
December 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Excellent plan - to be shared because - Here We Are….
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With Admiral Bradley's lawyer speaking to Congress this upcoming week.
Threshold question is how ANY of these strikes are legal.
On Sept 2 strike: question is whether they applied standard Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology.
Because look what it says (declassified 2012)⤵️
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Threshold question is how ANY of these strikes are legal.
On Sept 2 strike: question is whether they applied standard Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology.
Because look what it says (declassified 2012)⤵️
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December 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
With Admiral Bradley's lawyer speaking to Congress this upcoming week.
Threshold question is how ANY of these strikes are legal.
On Sept 2 strike: question is whether they applied standard Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology.
Because look what it says (declassified 2012)⤵️
1/
Threshold question is how ANY of these strikes are legal.
On Sept 2 strike: question is whether they applied standard Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology.
Because look what it says (declassified 2012)⤵️
1/
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A quick sidenote about this; one reason I stay on X is specifically because of exchanges like this, where @davidjbier.bsky.social and I got a prominent government official to make a claim so outrageous that it’s now ricocheting around the internet and actively undermining official PR campaigns.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A quick sidenote about this; one reason I stay on X is specifically because of exchanges like this, where @davidjbier.bsky.social and I got a prominent government official to make a claim so outrageous that it’s now ricocheting around the internet and actively undermining official PR campaigns.
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and tied into their Palantir database, so they can damage your credit whenever you say Trump is bad
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
and tied into their Palantir database, so they can damage your credit whenever you say Trump is bad
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You’re missing the part where they inevitably enact national ID & universal biometric identification. The very things conservatives once claimed would be unacceptable tyranny or even the mark of the Beast, but which they will blindly accept as legitimate because Trump, their god and king, says so.
Native-born American citizens don't have "immigration documents". And there's no requirement for naturalized citizens to carry their paperwork, either. And only about half of US citizens have a passport.
This is just fascism.
This is just fascism.
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You’re missing the part where they inevitably enact national ID & universal biometric identification. The very things conservatives once claimed would be unacceptable tyranny or even the mark of the Beast, but which they will blindly accept as legitimate because Trump, their god and king, says so.
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In Budapest's chill, tens of thousands surge against Viktor Orban's hollow vows, where child-abuse scandals fester like unchecked rot in state dens, ignoring a 2021 report exposing over 20% victimized kids. #Hungary
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In Budapest's chill, tens of thousands surge against Viktor Orban's hollow vows, where child-abuse scandals fester like unchecked rot in state dens, ignoring a 2021 report exposing over 20% victimized kids. #Hungary
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Not only does Musk demonstrate unfamiliarity with hysterectomies -- and 600,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US alone -- but it really illustrates how he sees women: not as fully equal human beings, as tools for (his) reproduction
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not only does Musk demonstrate unfamiliarity with hysterectomies -- and 600,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US alone -- but it really illustrates how he sees women: not as fully equal human beings, as tools for (his) reproduction
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🇺🇸 On this day 25 years ago, The Conservative Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the 2000 presidential election.
A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity.
🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.
A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity.
🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🇺🇸 On this day 25 years ago, The Conservative Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the 2000 presidential election.
A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity.
🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.
A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity.
🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.
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The same billionaires that corruptly packed the court with right-wing justices are the same ones that would benefit if SCOTUS got rid of coordinated campaign spending limits in NRSC vs. FEC.
@whitehouse.senate.gov and I talked about it in yesterday's livestream.
@whitehouse.senate.gov and I talked about it in yesterday's livestream.
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The same billionaires that corruptly packed the court with right-wing justices are the same ones that would benefit if SCOTUS got rid of coordinated campaign spending limits in NRSC vs. FEC.
@whitehouse.senate.gov and I talked about it in yesterday's livestream.
@whitehouse.senate.gov and I talked about it in yesterday's livestream.
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Mike Johnson Defends US Murder of Shipwrecked Sailors as 'Entirely Appropriate' | "There can be no war crime if there is no war," said @kennethroth.bsky.social this week. "But there can still be murder, which these attacks were."
Mike Johnson Defends US Murder of Shipwrecked Sailors as 'Entirely Appropriate'
"There can be no war crime if there is no war," said one human rights scholar this week. "But there can still be murder, which these attacks were."
www.commondreams.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Mike Johnson Defends US Murder of Shipwrecked Sailors as 'Entirely Appropriate' | "There can be no war crime if there is no war," said @kennethroth.bsky.social this week. "But there can still be murder, which these attacks were."