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Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

submitted 58 days ago • 192 comments

This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 59 days ago • 69 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

submitted 61 days ago • 253 comments

There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit. Then there are situations where you accuse a bunch of penguins on an uninhabited island of currency manipulation. Guess which one we’re living in? www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

submitted 67 days ago • 266 comments

Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

On a plane I re-watched, for the first time in decades, a film about an undocumented immigrant couple working hard to achieve the American dream: a house, a family, friends, a small business - only to be stalked by immigration decades later. It’s CONEHEADS. Fuckin CONEHEADS hits real hard in 2025.

submitted 71 days ago • 47 comments

Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good. Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.

submitted 73 days ago • 526 comments

👏👏👏 THIS is how to disrupt for the benefit of all.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 74 days ago • 1902 comments

Free speech expert: The myth of the censorship industrial complex is so ludicrous that even the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismissed it out of hand last year.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥

submitted 74 days ago • 148 comments

WATCH: Jeffrey Goldberg explaining what he was sent by Hegseth accidentally… followed by Hegseth furiously denying it. If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃

submitted 75 days ago • 236 comments

BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."

submitted 76 days ago • 294 comments

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

submitted 76 days ago • 120 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 78 days ago • 1553 comments

The Trump administration will not defy a judge's order blocking the use of war powers to deport alleged Venezuela gang members, the border czar Tom Homan said reut.rs/4bW5GET

submitted 77 days ago • 69 comments