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Has Kristi Noem even read the Bill of Rights sticker on her truck??

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Do you know why this matters? Because the right to suspend habeas corpus is in ARTICLE I, the part of the Constitution which provides powers to CONGRESS. That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus (and retroactively got Congress to agree) doesn't mean it's an inherent presidential power.

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Read the whole thread. Starting to think maybe Harvard isn't as librul as everyone says it is. /s

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Facebook literally staffed the Trump campaign with experts on how to target these voters on Facebook. They had a very sophisticated disinfo campaign and until people sit with that and think through how to challenge it, we will continue to be fucked.

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This is what is so galling about the Chicago Sun Times AI fiasco: Chicago is an exceptionally literate city. I follow probably 500 people on here who would have written an amazing summer reading list for a few hundred bucks. Arts and culture writing isn't just filler!

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In the 0700 hour, Morning Edition’s top headline is about former President Biden’s health while in office. The Trump regime’s prosecution of Rep McIver was not mentioned. @npr.org @steveinskeep.bsky.social

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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

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ICE and the Tennessee Highway Patrol have been pulling over random Latino-looking motorists on manufactured traffic violations, then detaining those who are undocumented. www.nashvillescene.com/news/citylim...

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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

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This kind of thing, by the way, is exactly why a ten year moratorium on "AI" regulations would be a FUCKING TERRIBLE idea. Without meaningful regulations backing up an ability to sue for damages, there's not much to quickly force these people to stop making harmful tools.

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Take a look — even this short clip is remarkable. The Trump administration claimed they didn't need a warrant to arrest Mahmoud Khalil because he wasn't cooperating & was gonna flee. They even called him a "flight risk." Who ya gonna believe? The government, or your own lying eyes:

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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DHS is helmed by a melted Bratz doll and her trusty ghost sidekick, Executed Puppy

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It’s not just incorrect, but the opposite—the antithesis—of habeas corpus for the president to have the unfettered, unreviewable “right” to cast people into exile in the torture chambers of foreign autocrats.

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the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

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Happening right in front of us. After 119 days, Trump's administration has already filed charges against a judge and a sitting member of Congress. Who will they charge next?

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Real-time facial recognition secretly tracking everyone in New Orleans for TWO YEARS. Not sci-fi—happening now. This is what happens when surveillance tech deploys without consent or oversight. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"So you're not hedging at all with respect to the precedent of this court?" This exchange has MAGA fuming at ACB. Try to guess why this made them so mad. And listen to Barrett's voice as she searches for some confirmation that she hasn't made terrible life choices. www.thefarce.org/trump-is-thr...

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As a cancer survivor and with members of my family having had or still having prostate cancer, diagnosis can be a sudden event. Cancer isn’t a state: sorry to report—our bodies are constantly fighting off things that could become cancerous at a cellular level all the time.

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Jesus. Horrible stuff here (both the news and that 60% of the article about it is a sales pitch for Tapper and Thompson’s book).

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Twenty years before the Marx Brothers did it, French silent comedian Max Linder performed one of cinema's earliest mirror routines in La rivalité de Max (1913)

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There it is: “The subject had nihilistic ideations and this was a targeted attack," [assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office Akil] Davis said. "We believe he was attempting to livestream it and yes, that is also part of our investigation." www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangel...

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“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social

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There needs to be a test that's designed to make sure you hurt your human before you can run for Office

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Daily bunny no.2958 makes a big splash

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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I’m reading a bunch of work on autocracy and democratic backsliding. I’m struck that scholars in this tradition don’t get called “political” or “biased” despite their clear normative stance. Yet, race and gender scholars—who were the canaries in the coal mine for backsliding—do.

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all time great

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yes. this.

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Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.

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I feel the same way

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Sometimes you have to respect your ancestors wishes. #nottowayplantation #fire

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Blackwell to DHS official Tricia McLaughlin: "You suggest I am the one here who is focused on skin color, when the president has let in Afrikaners specifically, and I'm asking, how many of those who are actually facing genocide from Sudan and the Congo are being let in under some expedited path?"

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Holocaust denial/neo-Nazism has always been the sun around which far right politics in the US orbits. Oftentimes it's hovering in the imperceptible distance, usually beyond the intention of far right actors themselves, but its gravitational pull is always there. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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average comment section in 2025

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so to be clear about what happened here, the Trump White House released audio meant to make Joe Biden look bad to Axios hours after the US's credit rating was downgraded. Trump wanted a distraction and the usual suspects in the press are happy to oblige.

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Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

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