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In a new or amended Constitution, we should enshrine the right to seek asylum, abolish administrative detention, prohibit enforced disappearance, protect other human rights defined by internat’l human rights treaties, and recognize the jurisdiction of internat’l human rights and criminal courts.

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“The final phase targets citizens who are seen as ‘non assimilated,’ and it involves passing laws to ‘target parallel societies with economic and cultural pressure’ and entice citizens to migrate abroad… The plan, Sellner claims, will allow ‘the wounds of multiculturalism to heal.’”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is what I’ve called a manufactured emergency

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Interesting amicus brief filed in the tariff case: “Tariffs, unlike the foreign sanctions explicitly authorized under IEEPA, are taxes paid by Americans. They fall squarely within Congress's taxing power and, under the Constitution, require the explicit consent of the people's representatives.”

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The new amicus brief from Martha Jones and Kate Masur is a critical intervention in the challenges to Trump’s birthright citizenship EO. It's also a really interesting example of historical briefing. Walk with me as I unpack a few thoughts… 🧵⬇️ @brennancenter.org

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

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A reminder: interns, residents, and fellows (“house staff”) are the backbone of clinical care in hospitals across the country new house staff start on July 1

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The "fact sheet" associated with this executive order is of course even more deranged and preposterous than the executive order itself. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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Remember how Steve Bannon & Peter Thiel embraced the “alt right” before Charlottesville? Both of them have been circling Harvard. Thread. 👇

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In 2022, Claremont alum Matt Peterson wrote: “Harvard must be effectively destroyed…to save the Republic.” He’s a Director of Firebrand Action, a project of the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network. (He’s also the founding editor of Claremont’s American Mind, which platformed Curtis Yarvin in 2019). 1/

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

I just read a re-enslavement advertisement for two young men who fled north from Maryland in 1829, which hints there were anti-slavery postal workers who would "lose" letters that contained information pertaining to slave re-capture (1/3)

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

What is the point of the National Academy? I understand that it's an exclusive group of very accomplished people, but what do they do? If there's any time to use their influence to advocate for all of science and all scientists isn't it right now?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Summary of proposed Trump budget cuts to science The cuts for NSF and NIH are as ugly as we would expect, though there is little detail on the NIH ones. daniels-newsletter-42563f.beehiiv.com/p/trump-s-de...

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Far from ending its "work," the lawless vanguard of DOGE is being assimilated into the larger Trump & Project 2025 authoritarian project. My latest for Lucid: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

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"The hallways...were absolutely lined with ICE agents. And immigrants were scared to leave, even though their cases were still open. What happened was that ICE agents then stormed into the courtroom, kicked out the attorneys, and detained everyone in the courtroom over the judge's objections."

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 15 hours ago • 266 comments

1/2 Today in Minneapolis, ICE/FBI raided a taco restaurant, yes, you read that correctly, a taco restaurant, dressed in full battle gear—long guns, body armor, the whole damn militarized show. Do they think they’re in a war zone? This is about instilling terror, rooted in racism. It won’t work.

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1/3. Top ICE officials ordered agents to “turn the creative knob up to 11” to arrest more people this weekend—including so-called “collaterals” with no warrants & no charges. This is a calculated cruelty campaign to terrorize immigrant communities, not enforce the law. tinyurl.com/NO-Warrants

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“The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,” said Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist who served as the director of the N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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NEW: Here is the travel ban. We're doing a full analysis now, but some quick takeaways: - All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others. - Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already. - Exempts immediate relatives.

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Prior iterations of these Trump travel bans were in fact Muslim Bans intended to target Muslim majority countries but reversed engineered in a way so that the criteria would appear neutral and capture a few other token countries.

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This whole thread is hugely important— it chronicles the on-going disappearance of a broad swath of critical publicly-funded data across US department and agency websites.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is only the beginning of unreliable data

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“The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the office that publishes the inflation rate, told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices.”

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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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Agnès Callamard, the global head of Amnesty International, holds a news conference in Ottawa to discuss the rise of authoritarian practices in the United States and around the world www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

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"The rise of authoritarian practices and annihilation of international law are not inevitable: people do and will resist attacks on human rights; governments can deliver international justice and must continue to do so" Amnesty International's annual report: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

1/ In its annual report on the state of human rights in 150 countries, Amnesty International said the immediate ramifications of 47’s 2nd term had been the undermining of decades of progress & emboldening of authoritarian leaders. No pay wall.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Great interview with prof Marci Shore, an expert on the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe. This is the link to the video mentioned in the interview. Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley left the USA for Toronto, Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Very good piece which every other reporter should rely on the next time Mike Johnson, or Russ Vought or Trump says that CBO is run by Democrats: Everyone except the White House believes the bill will add trillions to the deficit This includes serious analysts across the political spectrum

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'm pushing this out again, because that "big, beautiful bill" is nothing but Project 2025 in action. That's it. And they told us they were going to do it.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" weakens the authority of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. This is specifically in Project 2025: It mandates bonds to be posted for injunctions. Notably, this requirement applies retroactively, rendering existing court orders unenforceable.

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New @rollingstone.com by me: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Judges have told Trump, if he wants #DOGE -style austerity, he must get statutory reorg. authority from Congress. The GOP's Reorganizing Govt. Act of 2025 would give him exactly that. Extra material: douglaslucas.com/blog/2025/06...

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Trump pardoned J6er Hatchet Speed who confessed to an FBI agent that he was working on a plan to kill the Jews of America.

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In my latest newsletter, I write about why Bukele and Trump have both ramped up attacks against the press and why journalists at @elfaro.net & @elfaroenglish.bsky.social have had to flee the country. johnwashington.substack.com/p/fear-of-sp...

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For @nybooks.com I wrote about Bukele, Trump, their shared reliance over disappearances, and their countries’ mutual support of authoritarianism. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life Justifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny (Now without paywall) For PWS

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important in-depth reporting which shows the lies of the Trump administration when it claimed that the 238 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison were violent TdA gang members. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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"I don't care if they call me a dictator." www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/06/buke...

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White House is already making up data and analysis, saying repeatedly that the budget bill will - not increase the deficit (lie) - not cut Medicaid (lie) We are already there.

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