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Malcolm X warned us that ‘If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.’ Read the Public Advocate’s statement on Malcolm X’s centennial:

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If Ukraine were to stop fighting unilaterally, it would be destroyed as a nation. If Russia were to stop fighting, the war would be over. Yet Trump never utters this obvious truth. Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump is letting him. bit.ly/3YUfZUJ

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Via "One First," me on why Stephen Miller's riff on suspending habeas corpus is not just factually and legally wrong (in multiple respects), but reflects a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration's rhetorical attacks on the courts: www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZKC...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

melber makes an interesting point. musk lost 100 billion, personally. doge cut only 35 billion in government spending, a trifling amount compared to amounts cut by common bills. so, what just happened?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Friday, DOJ arrested a state judge in Wisconsin. Did she really commit a crime or is something else at work here? What are the law and the facts you need to understand to see the political machinations at work here? I try to take those issues on in this piece. joycevance.substack.com/p/arresting-...

submitted 24 days ago • 144 comments

Doing more damage to get away with damage already done

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 349 comments

Just to be clear, I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

submitted 34 days ago • 145 comments

Our immigration system is broken. The fix we need should come from Congress, like the one Democrats offered in 2024, one that included virtually everything Republicans had asked for for over a decade but that they rejected because Donald Trump ordered them to. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-record...

submitted 35 days ago • 44 comments

boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

submitted 35 days ago • 295 comments

⚡️UK, France & other NATO states are actively preparing the foundation for a security contingent — we must be fast and effective, Zelensky said during his meeting with NATO SecGen Rutte. He also called recognizing occupied territories a red line & slammed Trump rep Witkoff for overstepping his role.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

couple of troublemakers!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is layers of sinister. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 37 days ago • 45 comments

On the left: Federal court order of April 11 for the government to answer questions (1), (2) and (3) concerning the life and liberty of Abrego Garcia. On the right: The government's filing of April 12 without any answer to questions (2) and (3).

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.

submitted 42 days ago • 78 comments

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

submitted 43 days ago • 2177 comments

If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—pull down another nation’s flag, and then claim the ground in the name of the United States—every senior commander has a moral obligation to refuse to accept or support such a command. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 46 days ago • 269 comments

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

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The commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of NSA Gen. Timothy Haugh — who’s only been in the post for about a year — and his deputy were ousted today.

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NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

submitted 68 days ago • 127 comments

Democrat Cory Booker ends a more than 25-hour floor speech against President Trump's actions, the longest in Senate history.

submitted 49 days ago • 29 comments

Trump administration acknowledges it wrongfully deported a man to El Salvador terror prison but argues to the judge that he lacks the ability to order the man’s return www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 50 days ago • 400 comments