Mullins Here
@mullinshere.bsky.social
Editor, writer, enthusiast photographer, language lover, animal lover, moderate-to-liberal; still believe in education, thinking, science, diplomacy, those things (so anti-everything coming into our government).
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Mullins Here
@mullinshere.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Sharing this from Lincoln County Indivisible (Maine) in case you haven’t seen Trump says he’s sending the National Guard to Chicago next. We will be on the Wiscasset Bridge 4-5pm today because EVERY DAY IS NO KINGS DAY! Hope you join Cara who wanted this shared, nobody should stand alone!
This is now my new pinned post. We all need to keep this sign fixed firmly in our minds in the days to come.
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Notable that POTUS is posting a Fox News story about the USCG disabling and interdicting a vessel suspected of carrying drugs.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Notable that POTUS is posting a Fox News story about the USCG disabling and interdicting a vessel suspected of carrying drugs.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
Demonstrates his awareness of alternatives to blowing up suspected drug boats.
And that killing people is very much a deliberate and completely unnecessary choice.
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'We've detained him until he can prove there isn't a warrant for his arrest.'
-- That's not how the law works in the US.
Every one of the "Law Enforcement" officers needs to be fired.
-- That's not how the law works in the US.
Every one of the "Law Enforcement" officers needs to be fired.
December 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'We've detained him until he can prove there isn't a warrant for his arrest.'
-- That's not how the law works in the US.
Every one of the "Law Enforcement" officers needs to be fired.
-- That's not how the law works in the US.
Every one of the "Law Enforcement" officers needs to be fired.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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I have to turn to action: Community organizations, religious organizations, nonprofits with a fee-based National Park in their reach purchasing a number of passes for giveaway on MLK Day and especially (weather-wise) Juneteenth. And everyone boycotting fee-based parks on June 14, aka Felon's Day.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I have to turn to action: Community organizations, religious organizations, nonprofits with a fee-based National Park in their reach purchasing a number of passes for giveaway on MLK Day and especially (weather-wise) Juneteenth. And everyone boycotting fee-based parks on June 14, aka Felon's Day.
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This guest essay is absolutely on target. Consider it a guide to the most important thing in these times: retaining humanity, decency, and ethics when we have a government, aided by press and social media, determined to coarsen us.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guest essay is absolutely on target. Consider it a guide to the most important thing in these times: retaining humanity, decency, and ethics when we have a government, aided by press and social media, determined to coarsen us.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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BREAKING: DOJ submits threadbare declarations from DHS Sec Kristi Noem and two senior lawyers in response to Chief Judge Boasberg’s ongoing contempt inquiry.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Notice: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declarations:
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Notice: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declarations:
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
BREAKING: DOJ submits threadbare declarations from DHS Sec Kristi Noem and two senior lawyers in response to Chief Judge Boasberg’s ongoing contempt inquiry.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Notice: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declarations:
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Notice: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declarations:
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A handful of people were protesting Trump on Friday a couple blocks away from the Kennedy Center in the view of those headed to the World Cup draw.
The protest happening in the shadow of the Watergate Complex might have been a bit too on the nose. But, also, maybe not.
Today, at Law Dork:
The protest happening in the shadow of the Watergate Complex might have been a bit too on the nose. But, also, maybe not.
Today, at Law Dork:
Birthright citizenship, firing powers, the National Guard, and Trump's made-up "peace prize"
A Trump era Friday in December is not a normal Friday in December.
www.lawdork.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A handful of people were protesting Trump on Friday a couple blocks away from the Kennedy Center in the view of those headed to the World Cup draw.
The protest happening in the shadow of the Watergate Complex might have been a bit too on the nose. But, also, maybe not.
Today, at Law Dork:
The protest happening in the shadow of the Watergate Complex might have been a bit too on the nose. But, also, maybe not.
Today, at Law Dork:
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This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
This guest essay is absolutely on target. Consider it a guide to the most important thing in these times: retaining humanity, decency, and ethics when we have a government, aided by press and social media, determined to coarsen us.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guest essay is absolutely on target. Consider it a guide to the most important thing in these times: retaining humanity, decency, and ethics when we have a government, aided by press and social media, determined to coarsen us.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Many other democratic countries' Supreme Courts have higher numbers of justices. For example:
Japan - 15
Norway - 20
Sweden - 16
UK - 12
France and Spain have large numbers of justices but also very different court systems from ours.
Even those with lifetime appointments seem to have age limits.
Japan - 15
Norway - 20
Sweden - 16
UK - 12
France and Spain have large numbers of justices but also very different court systems from ours.
Even those with lifetime appointments seem to have age limits.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Many other democratic countries' Supreme Courts have higher numbers of justices. For example:
Japan - 15
Norway - 20
Sweden - 16
UK - 12
France and Spain have large numbers of justices but also very different court systems from ours.
Even those with lifetime appointments seem to have age limits.
Japan - 15
Norway - 20
Sweden - 16
UK - 12
France and Spain have large numbers of justices but also very different court systems from ours.
Even those with lifetime appointments seem to have age limits.
Not. Even. Headed. Toward. Us.
On left:
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Not. Even. Headed. Toward. Us.
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this is hilarious
"According to tax lawyers and financial planners who advise the city’s upper echelon, many wealthy New Yorkers who want to avoid taxes by moving are often unwilling to go to the lengths required to pass auditors’ scrutiny."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
"According to tax lawyers and financial planners who advise the city’s upper echelon, many wealthy New Yorkers who want to avoid taxes by moving are often unwilling to go to the lengths required to pass auditors’ scrutiny."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
this is hilarious
"According to tax lawyers and financial planners who advise the city’s upper echelon, many wealthy New Yorkers who want to avoid taxes by moving are often unwilling to go to the lengths required to pass auditors’ scrutiny."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
"According to tax lawyers and financial planners who advise the city’s upper echelon, many wealthy New Yorkers who want to avoid taxes by moving are often unwilling to go to the lengths required to pass auditors’ scrutiny."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
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ICE fired a munition at Rep. Adelita Grijalva as she demanded answers during a raid in her own community. No warning. No accountability. Just armored agents treating Tucson like a war zone. If they’ll fire at a Congresswoman on camera, imagine what they do to everyone else. Sick MFers.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
ICE fired a munition at Rep. Adelita Grijalva as she demanded answers during a raid in her own community. No warning. No accountability. Just armored agents treating Tucson like a war zone. If they’ll fire at a Congresswoman on camera, imagine what they do to everyone else. Sick MFers.
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A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfae.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
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What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.
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Under Trump, the United States of America is now in the business of disappearing people—and the Trump regime doesn’t seem to care who.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Under Trump, the United States of America is now in the business of disappearing people—and the Trump regime doesn’t seem to care who.
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President Biden: My message to young people is this, just be you, you are loved.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
President Biden: My message to young people is this, just be you, you are loved.
To be clear: Our military irreparably damaged a boat. Two survivors from the attack, unarmed, waved to us in open waters. We deliberately - with malice aforethought - killed them. We targeted two unarmed, helpless people.
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
To be clear: Our military irreparably damaged a boat. Two survivors from the attack, unarmed, waved to us in open waters. We deliberately - with malice aforethought - killed them. We targeted two unarmed, helpless people.
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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“Bothwell pastors Capitol Hill Lutheran Church in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, a part of the Evangelical #Lutheran Church in America.” #ELCA #ICE
sojo.net/articles/new...
sojo.net/articles/new...
What to Do if ICE Comes to Your Church
“How do we ensure that our people know exactly what to do if law enforcement or a government official were to come to our building, particularly during open hours?” Rev. Minna Bothwell said.
sojo.net
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Bothwell pastors Capitol Hill Lutheran Church in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, a part of the Evangelical #Lutheran Church in America.” #ELCA #ICE
sojo.net/articles/new...
sojo.net/articles/new...
This is important now and going to be more so. It's almost "bred in the bone" among some of us not to want to tinker with the Supreme Court in any way. It's been clear that the Court doesn't police its personal ethics very well, but it goes beyond that, and Democrats have to start the conversation.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is important now and going to be more so. It's almost "bred in the bone" among some of us not to want to tinker with the Supreme Court in any way. It's been clear that the Court doesn't police its personal ethics very well, but it goes beyond that, and Democrats have to start the conversation.