@susanrscott.bsky.social
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The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*
This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
June 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*
This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
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Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
June 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
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Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused California’s protesters of “defending heinous illegal alien criminals at the expense of Americans’ safety.”
Ma’am. You went to people’s workplaces to disappear them. You didn’t catch them doing anything but trying to make a living.
Ma’am. You went to people’s workplaces to disappear them. You didn’t catch them doing anything but trying to make a living.
June 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused California’s protesters of “defending heinous illegal alien criminals at the expense of Americans’ safety.”
Ma’am. You went to people’s workplaces to disappear them. You didn’t catch them doing anything but trying to make a living.
Ma’am. You went to people’s workplaces to disappear them. You didn’t catch them doing anything but trying to make a living.
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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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They didn't just expel people to El Salvador. They sent people to CECOT where they are imprisoned without trial or sentence and may never be released.
They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process.
Utterly despicable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process.
Utterly despicable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
Rubio Says 10 More People Have Been Expelled to El Salvador
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that “the alliance” between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had “become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere...
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
They didn't just expel people to El Salvador. They sent people to CECOT where they are imprisoned without trial or sentence and may never be released.
They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process.
Utterly despicable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process.
Utterly despicable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
Trump Picks Golf Over Dead American Soldiers
Because of course he did.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
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"Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania, Trump flew to Florida to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
Trump Picks Golf Dinner Over Dignified Transfer of U.S. Troops’ Bodies
Trump flew to the Saudi-funded event in Florida on Friday.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania, Trump flew to Florida to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.
I've come along to this take after kneekerk cynicism. Doing stuff that grabs attention is good. Not every action has to accomplish everything. You can praise and be happy about a step forward. We're going to need many steps forward.
yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
April 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.
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I missed The Ruckus Clause in the Constitution
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I missed The Ruckus Clause in the Constitution
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The texts have the tenor of adolescent boys playing video games, which tracks, of course.
March 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The texts have the tenor of adolescent boys playing video games, which tracks, of course.
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It’s currently dying in the light, so maybe they thought they were being too reductive…?
Scoop: The Washington Post recently—and quietly—removed its "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan from the opening sequence of its app, a notable change given Jeff Bezos once insisted it always appear alongside the logo. It also no longer appears atop its mobile site. www.status.news/p/washington...
Democracy Dies in the Light
The Post’s slogan hasn’t died in darkness, but with Jeff Bezos trying to steer the newspaper in a new direction, it is taking a noticeable step back from the spotlight.
www.status.news
March 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s currently dying in the light, so maybe they thought they were being too reductive…?
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Yup.
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Yup.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.
March 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.
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Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
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🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”
March 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”
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This seems bad
March 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This seems bad
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My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.
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Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?
March 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?
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I was interviewed this week for a major US news show. My interviewer asked me why so few of my colleagues are willing to talk.
It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society.
That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would
It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society.
That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would
In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
March 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I was interviewed this week for a major US news show. My interviewer asked me why so few of my colleagues are willing to talk.
It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society.
That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would
It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society.
That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would